A while back, I talked about how linked open code complements linked open data if we consider the web to be a computer system. This time, I explore what a linked open code (LOC) library might look like. That is, how would a collection of functions be published and used?

The emerging standard for sharing linked open data (LOD or LD) is JSON-LD mainly because it's easy to use and plays well with JSON-based REST APIs. That was by design. Consider JSON to be the modern XML, but for data rather than documents, and JSON-LD the modern RDF/XML. Everything I talk about in this post could be done with RDF/XML, but is a lot easier with JSON-LD.

A library is just a collection of functions. A class is a collection of functions operating on a common data structure (or type). We should be able to do both with LOC since LOD has the concept of types.