"My Data Model Is JSON"

“My data model is JSON”. JSON is not a data model. JSON has no semantics in the context of information systems; JSON defines neither how data “behaves” nor how machines can compute with it.

“My data is just JSON”. Your data is never just JSON; you always impose external semantics.

“JSON is easy to understand”. What does the field "harrastukset" mean? In an example JSON document, its value is ["valokuvaus", "pienoismallit"]. Oh, you don’t know Finnish?1

References

  1. Ora Lassila, “Will knowledge graphs save us from the mess of modern data practice?,” Knowledge Graphs Conference, New York, NY, USA (2022). [Online]. Available: https://www.lassila.org/publications/2022/KGC2022-Lassila-keynote.pdf ↩︎