Future plans?

[bolerio]

Seems liket his package implements the DatasetCoreFactory and DatasetCore interfaces from https://rdf.js.org/dataset-spec/#datasetfactory-interface. Any plans to implement the others?

Or do you know of any other efforts working on those APIs? Happy to see some community effort for creating JS APIs for RDF, and looking for something like this, but seems like the various projects are not very active.

[bergos]

The other interfaces are experimental, and based on the latest discussion related to those interfaces, one can expect, if there is a final version, it will contain breaking changes. That's why there are no plans to add those interfaces to this package at this point.

Maybe you want to give RDF-Ext a try. It contains a DatasetCore compatible Dataset plus some additional methods: https://rdf-ext.org/api/rdf-ext.html#datasetext

[bolerio]

Thanks @bergos . I guess I misunderstood the stage of development RDFJS as a spec. Wishful thinking...looking for a stable (standard or well-established) API for working with RDF in JavaScript. The RDFJS spec gave me that impression. Thanks for clarifying!

[bergos]

The RDF/JS specs are stable and standard for most RDF-related JS packages. Only the Dataset interface (not DatasetCore!) is experimental. Please follow the link and scroll a little bit up. There you can find the note.

I would highly recommend using the RDF/JS interfaces. The packages in rdfjs-base implement just the basic interfaces. It's up to you to stay with the interfaces defined in the specs and be able to switch to other data-model or dataset factories or use RDF-Ext, which implements the RDF/JS interfaces but adds some custom methods which will make your life a little bit easier for application development. Either way, you can use existing parsers and serializers.

[bolerio]

Thanks @bergos I'm definitely staying with RDF/JS. I just thought my life would already be a bit easier. Even for RDF-Ext, I feel there needs to be a bit more & clearer documentation so that one can quickly figure out what can be done with these APIs and how to do it. Maybe once I get more familiar, I could contribute some guide, more from an outsider perspective.