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<p class="mission">The <strong>mission</strong> of the <a href="https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/json-ld">JSON-LD Working Group</a> is to maintain and extend the <a href="https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/json-ld/publications">family of JSON-LD 1.1 Recommendations</a> and related Working Group Notes.</p>
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<p class="mission">The <strong>mission</strong> of the <a href="https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/json-ld">JSON-LD Working Group</a> is to maintain and extend the <a href="https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/json-ld/publications">family of JSON-LD Recommendations</a> and related Working Group Notes.</p>
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<p class="join"><a href="https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/json-ld/join">Join the JSON-LD Working Group.</a></p>
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See the <a href="https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/json-ld/charters">group status page</A> and <a href="#history">detailed change history</a>.
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See the <a href="https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/json-ld/charters">group status page</a> and <a href="#history">detailed change history</a>.
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Use of JSON-LD has grown and expanded over the last decade (since it's first publication as a
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<a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld-api1/">W3C Recommendation in 2014</a>).
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JSON-LD remains a popular choice for encoding <abbr title="Seach Engine Optimization">SEO</abbr>-focused
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structured data in Web pages. JSON-LD has also become a foundational format for social media
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structured data in Web pages using <a href="https://schema.org">schema.org</a>. JSON-LD has also become a foundational format for social media
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(<a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/">ActivityStreams</a>),
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Internet of Things data (<a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/wot-thing-description11/">Web of Things Description</a>),
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<a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model-2.0/">Verifiable Credentials</a>, and Software Bill of Materials
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(<a href="https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v3.0.1/serializations/#serialization-in-json-ld">SPDX</a>).
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<p>This growth in the applied use of JSON-LD has resulted in community interest in additional expressions of
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<p>This growth in the applied use of JSON-LD has led to a community interest in additional expressions of
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JSON-LD's underlying Linked Data structure in other formats. YAML-LD has been created by the
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<a href="https://www.w3.org/community/json-ld/">JSON for Linking Data Community Group</a> for easing human
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The goal of this new more inclusively focused JSON-LD WG is to meet the demand of the broader
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The goal of this new, more inclusively focused JSON-LD WG is to meet the demand of the broader
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JSON-LD community by strengthening the foundational JSON-LD specifications, growing the family
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of JSON-LD related formats which orbit around the JSON-LD processing model, and specifying improved
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context retrieval methods for greater clarity and stability.
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<h2>Scope</h2>
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The Working Group will evolve the recommendations defining the JSON-LD specifications (i.e., <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld11/">JSON-LD 1.1</a>, <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld11-api/">JSON-LD 1.1 API</a>, <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld11-framing/">JSON-LD 1.1 Framing</a>) by handling Errata and by adding requested features as recorded on the
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group's <a href="https://github.com/orgs/w3c/projects/84">Project Management Page</a>. In order to handle these,
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the Working Group will issue new versions of these recommendations, possibly with new features,
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in order to render future usage and evolutions easier. In particular, the Working Group will handle two important
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security related issues:
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The Working Group will evolve the recommendations defining the JSON-LD specifications
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(i.e., <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld11/">JSON-LD 1.1</a>,
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<a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld11-api/">JSON-LD 1.1 API</a>,
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<a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld11-framing/">JSON-LD 1.1 Framing</a>) by handling Errata
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and by adding requested features as recorded on the group's
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<a href="https://github.com/orgs/w3c/projects/84">Project Management Page</a>. In order to handle these,
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the Working Group will issue new versions of these recommendations, with possibly with new features,
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in order to render future usage and evolutions easier. In particular, the Working Group will handle
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two important security related problems:
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with the features introduced by <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf12-concepts">RDF 1.2</a>
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as noted on the groups <a href="https://github.com/orgs/w3c/projects/84">Project Management Page</a>.
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Together, these specifications provide a JSON format for Linked Data,
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enabling interoperation in a way which is familiar to and usable by software engineers.
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The development of the 1.2 versions of the JSON-LD specification will follow the principle of
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backward compatibility. This means that any valid JSON-LD 1.1 document will remain valid for
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JSON-LD 1.2, and the RDF graphs generated by the 1.1 and 1.2 versions of the JSON-LD API
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specifications, respectively, will be <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/#graph-isomorphism">isomorphic</a>.
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Finally, the Working Group will start working on the introduction of the new <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf12-concepts">RDF 1.2</a>
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concepts (primarily triple terms), into the JSON-LD syntax, API, and Framing. The final goal is to have, eventually, an updated version of JSON-LD fully compatible with the upcoming RDF 1.2 version but also with the concepts introduced in
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concepts (primarily triple terms), into the JSON-LD syntax, API, and Framing. The final goal is to
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<p>The Working Group will also consider <a href="https://www.w3.org/2021/Process-20211102/#allow-new-features">allowing new features</a> in
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<p>Depending on the incubation progress, interest from multiple implementers, and the consensus
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<a href="mailto:pierre-antoine@w3.org">Pierre-Antoine Champin</a>
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<a href="mailto:pierre-antoine@w3.org">Pierre-Antoine Champin</a> and
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<a href="mailto:ivan@w3.org">Ivan Herman</a>
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