- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:45:24 +0000
- To: Richard Wallis <richard.wallis@oclc.org>
- Cc: Jon Phipps <jphipps@madcreek.com>, Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net>, "public-vocabs@w3.org" <public-vocabs@w3.org>
On the point from Karen, re " full metadata standard including control of the value space." Excuse me quoting myself, but we tried to set things out in http://blog.schema.org/2012/05/schemaorg-markup-for-external-lists.html a) controlled value spaces are a good thing and to be encouraged b) although we have a few modestly sized enumerations within schema.org, we prefer them to be maintained "out there in the Web" by expert communities >From the blog post, "The world is too rich, complex and interesting for a single schema to describe fully on its own. Withschema.org we aim to find a balance, by providing a core schema that covers lots of situations, alongside extension mechanisms for extra detail. There are many situations where the use of existing controlled vocabularies, standards and datasets would improve schema.org markup." The combination of a SKOS-lite model, alongside Wikipedia-Wikidata-DBPedia, Freebase hopefully allows for decentralised value space management, within a reasonably simple schema.org base. cheers, Dan
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