Re: [Moderator Action] Re: [metadata] What do publishers need to know?

+1 I would like to know schema.orgšs perspective, too.


On 2/5/14, 9:50 AM, "Bill Kasdorf" <bkasdorf@apexcovantage.com> wrote:

>I would love to see that happen, Ivan. Markus' and Liza's call,
>obviously, but having him be the focus for an upcoming meeting would be a
>great idea, imo. And btw I hope if it happens it's a meeting I don't have
>to miss!--Bill K
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>From: Ivan Herman [mailto:ivan@w3.org]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 12:52 AM
>To: Gerardo Capiel
>Cc: Dave Cramer; W3C Digital Publishing IG
>Subject: Re: [Moderator Action] Re: [metadata] What do publishers need to
>know?
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>Gerardo, all,
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>I have not read the articles yet, but just a side note. One of the public
>faces of Schema.org is Dan Brickley, with whom I/we have excellent
>personal as well as professional contacts (he is co-chairing another
>Working Group where I am the staff contact). If necessary/important, I
>can invite him to one of our meetings to give us the schema.org
>perspective.
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>Ivan
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>On 04 Feb 2014, at 20:34 , Gerardo Capiel <gerardoc@benetech.org> wrote:
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>> This link may be useful regarding whether to use microdata, RDFa, etc:
>> 
>> http://schema.org/docs/faq.html#14
>> 
>> We're using microdata on Bookshare:
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>> http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?q=https%3A%2F%2Fww
>> w.bookshare.org%2Fbrowse%2Fbook%2F162937
>> 
>> Gerardo
>> 
>> Gerardo Capiel
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>> benetech
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>> On Feb 4, 2014, at 10:53 AM, "Cramer, Dave" <Dave.Cramer@hbgusa.com>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> A major source of confusion for the newcomer is the multiplicity of
>>>standards and concepts involved in adding metadata to HTML. It's easy
>>>to be disoriented by RDF, RDFa and RDFa Lite. I always confuse
>>>microformats and microdata. Is a friend of a friend a turtle or an owl?
>>>And is it really namespaces all the way down?
>>> 
>>> More concretely, Microformats and RDFa Lite appear to be nearly
>>>identical in functionality. Reading about the politics surrounding
>>>these specs does not fill me with confidence[1]. If  WHATWG, W3C and
>>>IDPF can't sort this out, what are we supposed to do?
>>> 
>>> I think this interest group could do an immense amount of good if it
>>>could educate the publishing community about the principles and
>>>practices of the semantic web. What do we need to know?
>>> 
>>> Dave
>>> 
>>> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2012Nov/0180.html
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