Re: www.productontology.org is now schema.org-compatible

On 7/2/11 10:11 PM, Martin Hepp wrote:
> Dear all:
>
> http://www.productontology.org, a service that produces more than 300,000 precise class definitions for types of products and services, is now fully schema.org-compatible and can be used to add precision to the generic http://schema.org/Product class.
>
> Examples:
>
>      http://www.productontology.org/doc/Racing_bicycle
>      http://www.productontology.org/doc/Racing_bicycle#microdata
>
>      http://www.productontology.org/doc/Pancake
>      http://www.productontology.org/doc/Pancake#microdata
>
>      http://www.productontology.org/doc/Vinegar
>      http://www.productontology.org/doc/Vinegar#microdata
>
>      http://www.productontology.org/doc/Retention_basin
>      http://www.productontology.org/doc/Retention_basin#microdata
>
> For each definition, Turtle, RDF/XML, and HTML is available:
>
>      http://www.productontology.org/doc/Racing_bicycle.ttl
>      http://www.productontology.org/doc/Racing_bicycle.rdf
>      http://www.productontology.org/doc/Racing_bicycle.html
>
> Note that we do not use the flawed schema.org extension mechanism, but instead recommend the RDF-style way of narrowing down the meaning by adding a second class membership:
>
> <div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product">
>      <a itemprop="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type" href="http://www.productontology.org/id/Retention_basin"></a>
>      <!-- other schema.org properties go in here -->
> </div>
> 		
> Instead of the empty<a>  element, you could also use<link>  if the WHATWG eventually decides to accept<meta>  and<link>  in the document body, which would be a good thing.

Awesome!!

Kingsley
> Best wishes
>
> Martin Hepp
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Received on Saturday, 2 July 2011 21:25:51 UTC