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  1. OASIS Open Data Protocol (OData) TC
  2. ODATA-601

Investigate enhancements to interoperability and feature set of OData JSON through JSON-LD

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    • Type: Improvement
    • Status: New
    • Priority: Major
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Affects Version/s: V4.0_OS
    • Fix Version/s: V4.02
    • Component/s: JSON Format
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      Description

      Driven by current analysis of JSON-LD in the GeoJSON community, I kindly suggest we investigate how JSON-LD (A JSON-based Serialization for Linked Data) might be mixed into OData JSON to avoid interoperability problems when our annotation and referencing style meets the "@" key culture of JSON-LD.

      Specification: URL=http://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld/
      and Community URL=http://json-ld.org/

      Writing while thinking about it: Maybe a vocabulary might enable aliasing of the keys for JSON-LD overlapped concepts?

      Citing the content of JSON-LD 3.3 "Syntax Tokens and Keywords" to go "in medias res":

      """
      JSON-LD specifies a number of syntax tokens and keywords that are a core part of the language:

      @context
      Used to define the short-hand names that are used throughout a JSON-LD document.
      These short-hand names are called terms and help developers to express specific identifiers in a compact manner.
      The @context keyword is described in detail in section 5.1 The Context.

      @id
      Used to uniquely identify things that are being described in the document with IRIs or blank node identifiers.
      This keyword is described in section 5.3 Node Identifiers.

      @value
      Used to specify the data that is associated with a particular property in the graph.
      This keyword is described in section 6.9 String Internationalization and section 6.4 Typed Values.

      @language
      Used to specify the language for a particular string value or the default language of a JSON-LD document.
      This keyword is described in section 6.9 String Internationalization.

      @type
      Used to set the data type of a node or typed value. This keyword is described in section 6.4 Typed Values.

      @container
      Used to set the default container type for a term. This keyword is described in section 6.11 Sets and Lists.

      @list
      Used to express an ordered set of data. This keyword is described in section 6.11 Sets and Lists.

      @set
      Used to express an unordered set of data and to ensure that values are always represented as arrays.
      This keyword is described in section 6.11 Sets and Lists.

      @reverse
      Used to express reverse properties. This keyword is described in section 6.12 Reverse Properties.

      @index
      Used to specify that a container is used to index information and that processing should continue deeper into a JSON data structure.
      This keyword is described in section 6.16 Data Indexing.

      @base
      Used to set the base IRI against which relative IRIs are resolved. This keyword is described in section 6.1 Base IRI.

      @vocab
      Used to expand properties and values in @type with a common prefix IRI. This keyword is described in section 6.2 Default Vocabulary.

      @graph
      Used to express a graph. This keyword is described in section 6.13 Named Graphs.

      :
      The separator for JSON keys and values that use compact IRIs.

      All keys, keywords, and values in JSON-LD are case-sensitive.
      """
      citation source at URL=http://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld/#syntax-tokens-and-keywords

      The decorated IRI terms are described non-normatively e.g.. in section 6.1 for compact IRI:

      """
      A compact IRI is a way of expressing an IRI using a prefix and suffix separated by a colon (. The prefix is a term taken from the active context and is a short string identifying a particular IRI in a JSON-LD document. For example, the prefix foaf may be used as a short hand for the Friend-of-a-Friend vocabulary, which is identified using the IRI http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/. A developer may append any of the FOAF vocabulary terms to the end of the prefix to specify a short-hand version of the absolute IRI for the vocabulary term. For example, foaf:name would be expanded to the IRI http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name.
      """

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              Reporter:
              sdrees Stefan Drees (Inactive)
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