Re: "Show me the metadata!" :), was Re: Rough sketch for WP

On September 27, 2016 at 2:13:44 AM, Robin Berjon (robin@berjon.com) wrote:
> On 26/09/2016 11:44 , Siegman, Tzviya - Hoboken wrote:
> To address metadata encoding more specifically, it shouldn't come as a
> surprise to some here that I would advocate for schema.org as a
> sensible, widely deployed and developer-adopted option. Maybe some of
> the work that we've done with Scholarly HTML ought to be applied more
> generally (with some scholarly specifics such as using
> `hasDigitalDocumentPermission` to mark open access)? Some of the
> modelling is a bit indirect (for instance affiliations are indirected
> precisely because they are ephemeral) but a lot of it is generic enough.
> It can be used in a manifest as JSON-LD, which could be sweet.

I think that's great too... so long as there is zero expectation that
browsers will support that natively.

But we welcome user land formats as metadata mixed into markup so long
as they don't interfere with the rendering of HTML.

Received on Tuesday, 27 September 2016 04:31:17 UTC