- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 02:12:03 -0500
- To: W3C Public Annotation List <public-annotation@w3.org>, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>
Hi, Dan– Thanks for the discussions at TPAC. (Context: Danbri is the coordinator for Schema.org, one of the contributors to Dublin Core, founder of FOAF, and a long-time SemWeb expert, experienced in both application development and in standards. I asked him over dinner what approach we should use in referencing external vocabularies for our terms.) If you'll recall, I asked you for advice on what vocabulary to reference, and relative influence and usage of `dc-term`s vs Schema.org. I was surprised by your answer… If I understood correctly, you suggested not using any one canonical external vocabulary in our spec, but rather to offer a set of equivalent vocabulary terms that might be used, depending on the project. On the one hand, this makes sense, and is a decentralized solution; on the other, it doesn't really reduce the complexity, as I'd hoped to do by referencing only a single external vocabulary. Could you explain the rationale there, or correct my misunderstanding? Also, I asked about patterns of usage in `dc-term`s and Schema.org. My understanding was that Schema.org had already overtaken the usage of Dublin Core in the wider Web (though perhaps not in older libraries), and that it would be easiest for future developers if we used Schema.org; TimBL suggested during our F2F that more projects, and thus more tools, natively understood Dublin Core today; ultimately, I guess we need to figure out the right balance (or, maybe not, if we follow your advice on including multiple references). I think you had a more nuanced answer on usage patterns, too. Can you speak to that as well? All your explanations made sense to me at the time, but not enough for me to convey facts and explain it to others in this WG… I appreciate your helping us sort out some long-standing (if not particularly contentious) issues. Thanks– –Doug
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