It’s Tuesday and we have another Treehouse Show for you! In Episode 64 of The Treehouse Show, Nick and Jason (@jseifer) talk about Touche.js, a library that remaps click events on supported devices for faster UI interaction. We also discuss Grid Forms, which allow you to create beautiful grid-like forms similar to government or banking documents. To cap off this riveting episode, Nick and Jason cover a few JavaScript plugins and list posts, including a list of Treehouse links. So meta. Amaze!

This Week’s Links

• Touche.js – seamless touch event mapping for your click events

• Motio – A small JavaScript library for simple but powerful sprite based animations and panning.

• Grid Forms – Data entry made beautiful.

• Animated Checkboxes and Radio Buttons with SVG.

• Lo-Dash – A utility library delivering consistency, customization, performance, & extras (Underscore.js alternative).

• CircleType.js – Circletype lets you set type on a circle, like old school Word Art!

• Odometer – Transition numbers like in the MOVIES.

• Frontend Development Bookmarks – A huge list of frontend development resources collected over time by Dimi Navrotskyy.

• TreehouseShow Bookmarks – A collection of all the links we’ve gone over on every Treehouse Show, graciously put together by Mohammad Hossein Mojtahedi.

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The RDF Working Group today published five Candidate Recommendations for version 1.1 of the Resource Description Framework (RDF), a widespread and stable technology for data interoperability:

• RDF 1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax defines the basics which underly all RDF syntaxes and systems. It provides for general data interoperability.
• RDF 1.1 Semantics defines the precise semantics of RDF data, supporting use with a wide range of “semantic” or “knowledge” technologies.
• RDF 1.1 N-Triples defines a simple line-oriented syntax for serializing RDF data. N-Triples is a minimalist subset of Turtle.
• RDF 1.1 TriG defines an extension to Turtle (aligned with SPARQL) for handling multiple RDF Graphs in a single document.
• RDF 1.1 N-Quads defines an extension to N-Triples for handling multiple RDF Graphs in a single document.

All of these technologies are now stable and ready to be widely implemented. Each specification (except Concepts) has an associated Test Suite and includes a link to an Implementation Report showing how various software currently fares on the tests. If you maintain RDF software, please review these specifications, update your software if necessary, and (if relevant) send in test results as explained in the Implementation Report.

RDF 1.1 is a refinement to the 2004 RDF specifications, designed to simplify and improve RDF without breaking existing deployments.

Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

The Government Linked Data (GLD) Working Group today published the Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT) as a Candidate Recommendation. DCAT allows governmental and non-governmental data catalogs to publish their entries in a standard machine-readable format so they can be managed, aggregated, and presented in other catalogs.

Originally developed at DERI, DCAT has evolved with input from a variety of stakeholders and is now stable and ready for widespread use. If you have a collection of data sources, please consider publishing DCAT metadata for it, and if you run a data catalog or portal, please consider making use of DCAT metadata you find. The Working Group is eager to receive comments reports of use at public-gld-comments@w3.org and is maintaining an Implementation Report.

Learn more about the eGovernment Activity.

The RDF Working Group has published two Proposed Recommendations today:

• JSON-LD 1.0. JSON is a useful data serialization and messaging format. This specification defines JSON-LD, a JSON-based format to serialize Linked Data. The syntax is designed to easily integrate into deployed systems that already use JSON, and provides a smooth upgrade path from JSON to JSON-LD. It is primarily intended to be a way to use Linked Data in Web-based programming environments, to build interoperable Web services, and to store Linked Data in JSON-based storage engines. Comments are welcome through 05 December.
• JSON-LD 1.0 Processing Algorithms and API. This specification defines a set of algorithms for programmatic transformations of JSON-LD documents. Restructuring data according to the defined transformations often dramatically simplifies its usage. Furthermore, this document proposes an Application Programming Interface (API) for developers implementing the specified algorithms. Comments are welcome through 05 December.

Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

Bridging the Gap, a priority initiative of the Greater Baltimore Committee

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