- From: Gregg Kellogg <gregg@greggkellogg.net>
- Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 11:27:46 -0700
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>
- Cc: Jason Douglas <jasondouglas@google.com>, Aaron Bradley <aaranged@gmail.com>, "kevin.polley@mutualadvantage.co.uk" <kevin.polley@mutualadvantage.co.uk>, "martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org" <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>, W3C Web Schemas Task Force <public-vocabs@w3.org>, Jay Myers <jay.myers@bestbuy.com>, Mike Bergman <mike@mkbergman.com>
On May 2, 2014, at 10:49 AM, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2 May 2014 18:38, Jason Douglas <jasondouglas@google.com> wrote:
>> Fine, but I think there's an aspect of that mechanism that would be a shame
>> to drop, which is that it had some semantic scoping.
>>
>> I think it's a bad idea to have a completely generic bailout mechanism like
>> this. However, I have no issue with more localized bailouts for things like
>> product specifications or sports statistics that do have common
>> characteristics but a lot of variety and uniqueness. You at least have some
>> hope of being able to do something useful with that data. Otherwise,
>> there's little value over a bag of words.
>
> Yeah, I share the concern about having unscoped bundles of fields that
> could mean anything.
>
> I'm not a believe in the slash-based extension, at least in this case.
> It's best used for super-properties, i.e. where the extended form
> implies the short form:
>
> Does
> {
> @type: Product,
> productSpecification/screenSize : {
> value: 46
> unitCode: "CMT"
> }
> }
>
> imply
>
> { @type: Product, productSpecification: "46"} ?
>
> This would seem like an overstretch. 46 could be the number of
> previous owners, without the qualifying info. Whereas
> http://schema.org/actor/lead would 'dumb down' nicely to plain old
> '/actor'.
>
> For the kind of product data Martin's talking about here, I wonder
> whether it might be more fruitful to use something like a CSV tabular
> form, associated as a http://schema.org/Dataset and use annotations on
> the table structure, along lines we're spec'ing in the W3C CSV on the
> Web group - http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-csvw-ucr-20140327/
> https://www.w3.org/2013/csvw/wiki/Main_Page
+1, although that still begs the question of what the property space is.
Gregg
> Dan
>
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