Re: Facebook's Open Graph Protocol

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Renato Iannella <renato@nicta.com.au> wrote:
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> On 27 Apr 2010, at 00:04, Harry Halpin wrote:
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>> I'm hoping some of you have seen this already, which is Facebook's
>> deployment of RDFa, the Open Graph Protocol [1]
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>> Any opinions?
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> Disappointing in that they ignore the past and "reinvent" a new namespace for already well established semantics....
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> ie: they *should* have used DC and vCard for much of what they define here: http://opengraphprotocol.org/
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> It is no excuse to be "inspired by Dublin Core" (see bottom of page) then ignore it...

I wonder if that says anything about how well the Cambridge crowd has
explained themselves to the "real world."

Tom

Received on Tuesday, 27 April 2010 04:18:44 UTC