- From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:20:01 +0100
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: public-html-data-tf@w3.org
On 17 Oct 2011, at 08:17, Ian Hickson wrote: > On Sun, 16 Oct 2011, Jeni Tennison wrote: >> >> Hope this helps. Let me know if you need anything more. > > What software do these sites expect to have consume this data? Like I said: > There are dedicated consumers for some of these vocabularies -- in particular the schema.org and data-vocabulary.org vocabularies are used for rich snippets in search engines. But there are also generic consumers of the data which use the types to aid people's searches. For instance, Sindice [1] enables you to search for pages that contain information about things of particular types. For example, you can search for foaf:Documents on "HTML5": > > http://sindice.com/search?q=HTML5&nq=&fq=class%3Afoaf%3ADocument > > or schema:NewsArticles on "HTML5": > > http://sindice.com/search?q=HTML5&nq=&fq=class%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fschema.org%2FNewsArticle I expect that the sites are aiming to support both the dedicated consumers that recognise a single vocabulary and the general-purpose consumers that support users' search across multiple unconstrained vocabularies. Cheers, Jeni -- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com
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