Hi Alex, My immediate thought when looking at both of those URLs is that as an ordinary person I don't know where to start with either of those. What i want (which is why i did it mysyelf) was access to a manageable set of data that I can use to study html feature usage. what i would like is to have easily query up to date data on usage of feature x without having to be a rocket scientist to do it. -- Regards SteveF HTML 5.1 <http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/> On 17 May 2013 14:31, Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com> wrote: > What's the core value proposition for this work vs. > http://commoncrawl.org/ and http://www.webdatacommons.org/ ? > > > On Friday, May 17, 2013, Marcos Caceres wrote: > >> A few of us have a small project (http://webdevdata.org/) that we've >> been using to inform the development of specifications over the last few >> months. It actually started with Steve's research into <main>, for which he >> used some software to crawl a large number of sites, and then grep'd that >> data to get stats that helped support his argument for <main>. >> >> This data set has become increasingly useful to a number of people (the >> RICG has been making extensive use of it), and so have some members of the >> HTMLWG (e.g., [1]). >> >> Anyway, as the headlights activity has the potential to result in the >> allocation of resources for projects, I think it would be good if >> webdevdata.org could be considered as something that can help "close the >> gap" (in that it provides data to help us make informed technical decisions >> about the platform). >> >> What we would like to see: >> >> * monthly or quarterly crawls. >> * hosting and archiving of the data. >> * the ability to search the index through the web. >> * the ability to download the data. >> >> Maybe the W3C could speak to its members in the academic sector for help >> with different ways of searching the data and making statistical analysis >> of it (in a way that helps both Web developers and spec folks). >> >> [1] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=19619#c21 >> -- >> Marcos Caceres >> >> >> >>
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