- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 09:23:48 -0400
- To: Daniel O'Connor <daniel.oconnor@gmail.com>
- CC: Peter Ansell <ansell.peter@gmail.com>, Chris Bizer <chris@bizer.de>, public-lod@w3.org
Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > It is hard to accept their goals so far since they made up a new > vocabulary for RDFa instead of matching the FOAF support that > SearchMonkey gives, and the URI's they provide for don't contain valid > top level domain names when the RDFa properties are joined with the > prefixes so it looks a little weird when you actually serialise it to > RDF. > > > What it looks like to me is they started with hcard, went off, > implemented support for that, along the way discovered rdfa, thought > "Neat! I bet I could do a vcard in this!" and ended up here. > > It feels like a 20% project which isn't quite up to the usual > standard, and they've given these guys a bit of free reign to play > with the idea. > > I'd prefer to assume innocent intentions and fumbling rather than > malicious intent. > All, I desperately hope that you can see the Google is providing a huge opportunity to showcase Linked Data meme value. Again, so what -- if they don't use existing vocabularies? What matters is that they are using RDFa to produce structured data, and that is simply huge!!! -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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