Re: @itemid and URL properties in schema.org

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>wrote:

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> On 4 Nov 2011, at 21:28, Daniel Dulitz wrote:
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> > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 14:17, Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
> wrote:
> >> I'd love to know whether there are any consumers of schema.org markup
> that are or plan to aggregate data across different sites to create a view
> of information about the same thing, and indeed whether there are any
> publishers who are generating schema.org markup with common @itemids or
> urls…
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> > One could imagine that consumers like search engines might do something
> like you describe. :-)
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> One could *imagine* so, yes :) I suppose I was fishing a bit because of
> course if a search engine *was* doing that then it would picking up
> information in different languages about those things, and it would want to
> preserve the language of the information so that they could present
> something useful back to the users. And that would be a good example for
> Hixie on the bug on microdata language handling [1]...
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In as much as Hixie's response is it's "up to the vocabulary" and what most
everyone seems to want is the same -- use the existing DOM mechanisms, so
overall page language with @lang for overriding specific nodes -- should we
just state that's what schema.org processors will do (I know of at least
one implementer who had that expectation :-)?


> Any concrete examples of this, or even statements of intent, would be
> useful.
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> Thanks,
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> Jeni
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> [1] http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14470
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