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

As long as we're talking about guest speakers who work with metadata
specs, can we have Manu Sporny too? He's already presented to the group in
Shenzhen.


Dave



On 2/5/14 9:52 AM, "Jean Kaplansky" <Jean.Kaplansky@aptaracorp.com> wrote:

>+1 I would like to know schema.org©ös perspective, too.
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>On 2/5/14, 9:50 AM, "Bill Kasdorf" <bkasdorf@apexcovantage.com> wrote:
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>>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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>>-----Original Message-----
>>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:
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>>> http://schema.org/docs/faq.html#14

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>>> 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
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>>> Gerardo
>>>
>>> Gerardo Capiel
>>> VP of Engineering
>>> benetech
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>>> 650-644-3405 - Twitter: @gcapiel - GPG: 0x859F11C4 Fork, Code, Do
>>> Social Good: http://benetech.github.com/

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>>> On Feb 4, 2014, at 10:53 AM, "Cramer, Dave" <Dave.Cramer@hbgusa.com>
>>>  wrote:
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>>>> 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?
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>>>> 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?
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>>>> 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
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>>>> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2012Nov/0180.html

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