Re: Benifit of Schema.org over linked data or vice versa

Here is my take on this (from the recent GoodRelations & schema.org tutorial at ESWC2014):



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On 02 Jun 2014, at 21:53, Lloyd Fassett <lloyd@azteria.com> wrote:

> It's a really interesting question to me.  I get the feeling that Schema.org is for publishing for search engines.  Linked Data on the other hand is more capable of enabling more interaction and re-use of data between different applications.
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> Linked Data could enable a stand alone application as well, where it wouldn't make sense to do that with Schema.org.
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> Is that about right?
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> Thanks,
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> Lloyd Fassett
> Azteria, Inc.
> Bend, OR
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> Lloyd Fassett
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> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:
> On 6/2/14 9:40 AM, Dan Brickley wrote:
> When TimBL originally wrote
> http://www.w3.org/designissues/linkeddata.html  it was largely a
> response to the indirect linking model we'd been using in the FOAF
> project.
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> Dan,
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> I wouldn't say using HTTP URIs for unambiguous denotation of entities was a response to FOAF. It just so happened that FOAF provided a nice anecdote [1] for making the point. It's hard to explain why "You" need an HTTP URI that denotes "You" unambiguously if there's nothing in place to support and demonstrate the utility of a common practice in the real-world that's simply being exploitable via the Web medium.
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> As you know, unambiguous HTTP URI based entity denotation dates back to the very notion of a World Wide Web  (on Paper and inside TimBL's head) [2][3] :-)
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> How all of this got lost I will never know, but I do challenge anyone to image the real-world without:
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> 1. words -- that denoted things unambiguously
> 2. terms -- that denoted things unambiguously
> 3. sentences comprised of ambiguous words
> 4. statements comprised of ambiguous terms.
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> If RDF had been promoted (from the onset) as a Language rather than a Format (specifically RDF/XML) we wouldn't still be deliberating these matters circa., 2014.
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> Links:
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> [1] http://bit.ly/1tBFW2Q -- Get Yourself a URI post by TimBL
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> [2] http://bit.ly/1aNuWca -- original WWW proposal (this couldn't include live HTTP URIs since the Web was at the proposal stage)
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> [3] http://bit.ly/10Y9FL1 -- original WWW proposal embellished with live HTTP URIs that denote entities.
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