fbreuer/mathblogging — Issue #109: choose a data-handling library
Author: fbreuer
Created: 2012-02-15 07:01:06+00:00
State: open

I do not think that it is a good idea to wrangle the data all by ourselves. Especially handling references imposes problems I do not want to deal with by myself. I'd rather pick a library.

Right now, I think there are two viable options:
* [data.js](http://substance.io/michael/data-js) is a lightweight format and library that explicitly handles graphs - which is what we want to deal with.
* [RDFQuery](http://code.google.com/p/rdfquery/) is a library for handling the RDF industry standard, which is unfortunately rather heavyweight. However, in the long run, it might be interesting, if we could serve RDF anyway, to take mathblogging.org one step in the direction of the semantic web.

Right now, I lean towards experimenting with data.js first.