Re: Schema.org context issue

Hi Alasdair,

Thanks for sharing this! We were bitten by this in the R bindings to
json-ld javascript library too.  It's a bit unfortunate that the
work-arounds aren't recognized as valid by Google's structured data testing
tool, though they are clearly valid JSON-LD generally.  Fortunately for us
the R developer of the bindings was able to fix this directly; it appears
that the system has switched from content negotiation to a redirect method,
but I'm not sure of the details.

- Carl
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Carl Boettiger
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On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 3:29 AM Gray, Alasdair J G <A.J.G.Gray@hw.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi
>
>
>
> About 2 weeks ago, Schema.org underwent some online attack which resulted
> in them changing the way they serve the @context file. This change breaks
> many frameworks that attempt to read the context file in dynamically.
>
>
>
> Two workarounds that I know of are:
>
>    1. Replace the short context reference of “@context”:”
>    https://schema.org”  with “@context”:“
>    https://schema.org/docs/jsonldcontext.jsonld”
>    2. Take a local copy of https://schema.org/docs/jsonldcontext.jsonld
>    and overwrite things locally
>
>
>
> I hope that helps people to understand why anything using JSON-LD with the
> Schema.org context has recently stopped working.
>
>
>
> Best regards
>
>
>
> Alasdair
>
>
>
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