Icons for JSON-LD features

[bollwyvl]

In several places on the site, it would be helpful to see visual clues helping to distinguish between the things one can do to a JSON-LD document:

• Expand
• Compact
• Flatten
• Frame
• Normalize(?) (what else am I missing?)

My original desire for this was to for actually representing the before and after states of the data, either as static diagrams or like the secret lives of data:

an "RDF blue box" URI and a "red circle" context would be on both sides of compaction "vice", or the "vice" would "compact" a document from one form into another

But to get to that story, we'd need the icons first.

Mentioned in #319, #323.

[lanthaler]

This has mostly been addressed. Only the RDF (N-Quads) logo needs to be updated to match the other icons. There's an open PR to include it directly into FontAwesome. If it's merged, we should just use that. Otherwise we should convert the icon to b/w.

[bollwyvl]

Frankly, I am not overjoyed about what's up there, but there's something to be said in being pretty close with the "de facto" icons of today's web environment. That bodes well for the metaphors being adoptable and easy to understand.

For RDF: FA inclusion would be best, and of course it would be nice to get the JSON-LD logo added at the same time: perhaps someone with some gravitas could suggest that on that issue?

Note that FA would probably not backport the (either) icon to the 2.x line... while this is a silly reason to go to bootstrap 3, there are good ones :) Probably a separate discussion, to include site automation and build.

In the meantime, there is icomoon.

We could build up "the" JSON-LD icon font either from those... or alternately run another design competition to create a new one, which would be a nice addition to the branding section. However, we're back where

Of course, there is no RDF icon on icomoon either. However, it is trivial to add a new icons, and we already have source, though it's not entirely clear to me what the licensing status of the W3C icons actually IS, and what we projects like this one can do with them.