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

On 05 Feb 2014, at 15:57 , Siegman, Tzviya - Hoboken <tsiegman@wiley.com> wrote:

> Agreed. Perhaps we should first have an internal discussion about epub-type (or whatever we choose to call it) extension to HTML?

I think we should, in any case, wait a bit before we invite Dan. I think we should have a clearer understanding of the various aspects of the metadata, syntax, vocabulary, and behavioral UI landscape to be able to ask the right questions to Dan. In about a month?

Ivan

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> From: Jean Kaplansky [mailto:Jean.Kaplansky@aptaracorp.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 9:53 AM
> To: Bill Kasdorf; Ivan Herman; 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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> +1 I would like to know schema.org¹s 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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>> 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.
>> 
>> 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%2Fw
>>> w
>>> w.bookshare.org%2Fbrowse%2Fbook%2F162937
>>> 
>>> 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?
>>>> 
>>>> 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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