Re: Proposal: Looking inside tables

Martin,

 Thank you for your feedback. It is always good to see a spirited
discussion.

 For better or worse, it turns out that marking each cell in a table is not
always an option. So ...

guha


On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:52 AM, Martin Hepp <
martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> just from the top of my head - if you really want to add such a meta-data
> extension, why don't you create a type
>
>     http://schema.org/Table
>
> with the properties
>
>     typeOfEntries - URL of schema.org type
>     column - columns of the table (optional, since directly available from
> the HTML tree)
>
> and a second type
>
>     http://schema.org/TableColumn ( or Dimension or something more
> generic)
>
> with the property
>
>     mapsToProperty - URL or schema.org property
>
> That should to the trick without mixing apples (tables) and oranges (table
> entries).
>
>
> But in general, I strictly oppose the proposed extension, since it adds an
> unnecessary intermedia level. Putting in the proper markup directly in the
> body of the table is
>
> 1. cleaner,
> 2. requires no special processing, and
> 3. works in RDFa and Microdata without proprietary inferences.
>
> <table>
>   <thead>
>     <tr>
>       <th>Image</th>
>       <th>Name</th>
>       <th>Year</th>
>       <th>Technique</th>
>       <th>Dimensions</th>
>       <th>Gallery</th>
>     </tr>
>   </thead>
> <tbody>
>    <tr itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Painting">
>         <td><a itemprop="image" href="...URL">Image</a></td>
>         <td itemprop="name">The Cry</td>
>         ...
>    </tr>
> ...</tbody>
> </table>
>
>
> My strongest argument, however, is that most tables today are generated
> with loops from database content, so the HTML / template will contain the
> data markup in only one place anyway. So there is really no reason to add
> such an awkward, proprietary mechanism that mixes syntax and vocabulary.
>
>
> Martin
>
>
>
> On Aug 14, 2013, at 2:47 PM, Dan Brickley wrote:
>
> > Re-fwd'ing this as Omar's mail didn't get distributed for some reason.
> >
> > Somewhat related, see also schema.org position paper to W3C Open Data
> > on the Web workshop recently,
> > http://www.w3.org/2013/04/odw/odw13_submission_53.pdf via
> > http://www.w3.org/2013/04/odw/papers
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Omar Benjelloun (عمر بنجلون) <benjello@google.com>
> > Date: 13 August 2013 22:04
> > Subject: Proposal: Looking inside tables
> > To: public-vocabs@w3.org
> > Cc: Ramanathan Guha <guha@google.com>, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Many useful datasets on the Web take the form of tables. The goal of
> > this proposal is to provide a simple, schema.org-friendly way to "look
> > inside" these tables, and map their contents into triples.
> >
> > This is an early draft proposal developed at Google. We're seeking
> > feedback from the community.
> >
> > The proposal is attached to this e-mail, and will be uploaded to the
> > WebSchemas/SchemaDotOrgProposals page shortly.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Omar
> > <Lookinginsidetables.html>
>
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