- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:57:46 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
- cc: public-html-data-tf@w3.org
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Jeni Tennison wrote: > 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. Surely nobody is seriously expecting random users to do searches containing actual property URLs. That's a highly advanced feature for a tiny subset of users, but it's not a real-world application. Also, for software like that, what vocabulary is used isn't really relevant, since it is blind to the semantics. What I meant is what software consumes the non-schema.org vocabularies specifically? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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