[linux-audio-dev] Knobs / widget design

[Steve Harris]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 05:21:59 -0500, Jan Depner wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 17:00, Steve Harris wrote:
> > Yup, but I dont think we got consensus on the metadata format, which is
> > kinda fundamnetal. For the record, I (still) think we should use a
> > restricted subset of RDF/N3.
> > 
> 	As long as you never, ever have to look at it.  I could actually read
> the XML stuff in the old Ardour presets files.  From what I can see the
> RDF/N3 format is somewhat similar to cuneiform or possibly Sanskrit ;-)

Heh, its actually pretty easy to understand (conceptually), its just got
no syntaxic shortcuts and its a graph language, which is my its hard for
humans to read.

But yes, noone should ever have to write RDF/N3 by hand. A tool can be
used to save the description out in RDF/N3 or RDF/XML (eg. protege, RDFe,
emacs ;). If it only saves RDF/XML it can be trivially machine converted
to RDF/N3.

There are other options like Turtle, which has some shortcuts to make it
easy for humans to read/write, but its equivalently harder to parse. Rock
and a hard place :(

- Steve