- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 23:10:17 +0000
- To: Guha <guha@google.com>
- Cc: Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>, "public-vocabs@w3.org Vocabs" <public-vocabs@w3.org>, public-lod <public-lod@w3.org>
On 8 November 2012 22:43, Guha <guha@google.com> wrote: > Thank you Martin for the great collaboration. Look forward to more. > > And on our side, it was really Dan Brickley who did the work. Thank you Dan. Well in fact it was Cenk Gazen who did the hard and interesting work on the schema.org side (and Martin of course for the epic editorial work around GR). But a few words on the site-internal RDFa system now in passing, as it is also progress in its own right: This latest build of schema.org uses a different approach to previous updates. Earlier versions (apart from health/medicine) were relatively small, and could be hand coded. With Good Relations, the approach we took was to use an import system that reads schema definitions expressed in HTML+RDFa/RDFS and generates the site as an aggregation of these 'layers'. In other words, schema.org is built by a system that reads a collection of schema definitions expressed using W3C standards. The public site is also now more standards-friendly, aiming for 'Polyglot' HTML that works as HTML5 and XHTML, and you can find an RDFa view of the overall schema at http://schema.org/docs/schema_org_rdfa.html I'm really happy to see Good Relations go live, and look forward to catching up on the other contributions that are in the queue. The approach will be to express each of these in HTML/RDFa/RDFS and make some test sites on Appspot that show each proposal 'in place', and in combination with other proposals. Since schemas tend to overlap in coverage, this is really important for improving the quality and integration of schema.org as we grow. While it took us a little while to get this mechanism in place, I'm glad we now have this standards-based machinery in place that will help us scale up the collaboration around schema.org. Thanks again to all involved, Dan
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