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Object Oriented Linked Data Schema
draft-stier-oold-schema-latest
Abstract
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Conventions and Definitions
2.1. JSON Document
2.2. Instance Document
2.3. OO-LD Schema Document
3. Security Considerations
4. IANA Considerations
4.1. application/oold-schema+json
4.2. application/oold-schema-instance+json
5. References
5.1. Normative References
5.2. Informative References
Acknowledgments
Author's Address
1. Introduction
The core idea is that an OO-LD document is always both a valid JSON-
SCHEMA and a JSON-LD remote context ( != JSON-LD document). In this
way a complete OO-LD class / schema hierarchy is consumeable by JSON-
SCHEMA-only and JSON-LD-only tools while OO-LD aware tools can
provide extended features on top (e.g. UI autocomplete dropdowns for
string-IRI fields based e.g. on a SPARQL backend, SHACL shape or
JSON-LD frame generation).
A minimal example:
{
"@context": {
"schema": "http://schema.org/",
"name": "schema:name"
},
"title": "Person",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "First and Last name"
}
}
}
Please note that *OO-LD schema documents MUST not be interpreted as
JSON-LD documents* because this would apply @context on the schema
itself. The motivation behind this is to have a single document so
schemas can be aggregated using both the JSON-SCHEMA $ref and the
JSON-LD remote @context pointing the same resource.
%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral' } }%%
classDiagram
class OOLD_Class_A {
JSON-SCHEMA + JSON-LD
@context: ...
properties: a...
}
class OOLD_Class_B {
JSON-SCHEMA + JSON-LD
@context: ./A
allOf: ./A
properties: b...
}
class OOLD_Instance_B {
JSON
@context: ./B
$schema: ./B
a: ...
b: ...
}
OOLD_Class_A <-- OOLD_Class_B: extends
OOLD_Class_B <-- OOLD_Instance_B: type
2. Conventions and Definitions
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
"OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
capitals, as shown here.
2.1. JSON Document
A JSON document is an information resource (series of octets)
described by the application/json media type. OO-LD Schema is only
defined over JSON documents. However, any document or memory
structure that can be parsed into or processed according to the JSON
Schema data model can be interpreted against a OO-LD Schema,
including media types like CBOR [RFC7049].
2.2. Instance Document
A JSON document to which a OO-LD schema is applied is known as an
"instance". OO-LD Schema is defined over application/json or
compatible documents, including media types with the +json structured
syntax suffix. Among these, this specification defines the
application/schema-instance+json media type which defines handling
for fragments in the URI.
2.3. OO-LD Schema Document
A OO-LD Schema document, is a JSON document used to describe an
instance. A OO-LD schema SHOULD always be given the media type
application/oold-schema+json rather than application/oold-schema-
instance+json. The application/oold-schema+json media type is
defined to offer a superset of the fragment identifier syntax and
semantics provided by application/oold-schema-instance+json. A OO-LD
Schema document SHOULD contain a @context keyword, pointing to a
valid JSON-LD context definition according to [JSONLD]
3. Security Considerations
Both schemas and instances are JSON values. As such, all security
considerations defined in RFC 8259 [RFC8259] apply.
Instances and schemas are both frequently written by untrusted third
parties, to be deployed on public Internet servers. Implementations
should take care that the parsing and evaluating against schemas does
not consume excessive system resources. Implementations MUST NOT
fall into an infinite loop.
A malicious party could cause an implementation to repeatedly collect
a copy of a very large value as an annotation. Implementations
SHOULD guard against excessive consumption of system resources in
such a scenario.
Servers MUST ensure that malicious parties cannot change the
functionality of existing schemas by uploading a schema with a pre-
existing or very similar $id.
Individual OO-LD Schema extensions are liable to also have their own
security considerations. Consult the respective specifications for
more information.
Schema authors should take care with $comment contents, as a
malicious implementation can display them to end-users in violation
of a spec, or fail to strip them if such behavior is expected.
A malicious schema author could place executable code or other
dangerous material within a $comment. Implementations MUST NOT parse
or otherwise take action based on $comment contents.
4. IANA Considerations
4.1. application/oold-schema+json
The proposed MIME media type for OO-LD Schema is defined as follows:
Type name:: application
Subtype name:: oold-schema+json
Required parameters:: N/A
Encoding considerations:: Encoding considerations are identical to
those specified for the application/json media type. See JSON
[RFC8259].
Security considerations:: See Section 3 above.
Interoperability considerations:: TODO
Fragment identifier considerations:: TODO
4.2. application/oold-schema-instance+json
The proposed MIME media type for OO-LD Schema Instances that require
a JSON Schema-specific media type is defined as follows:
Type name:: application
Subtype name:: oold-schema-instance+json
Required parameters:: N/A
Encoding considerations:: Encoding considerations are identical to
those specified for the application/json media type. See JSON
[RFC8259].
Security considerations:: See Section 3 above.
Interoperability considerations:: TODO
Fragment identifier considerations:: TODO
5. References
5.1. Normative References
[JSONLD] "JSON-LD 1.1", n.d.,
.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
.
[RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
May 2017, .
[RFC8259] Bray, T., Ed., "The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data
Interchange Format", STD 90, RFC 8259,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8259, December 2017,
.
5.2. Informative References
[RFC7049] Bormann, C. and P. Hoffman, "Concise Binary Object
Representation (CBOR)", RFC 7049, DOI 10.17487/RFC7049,
October 2013, .
Acknowledgments
TODO acknowledge.
Author's Address
Simon Stier
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Email: 52674635+simontaurus@users.noreply.github.com