Minutes: MathML intent meeting, 17 Dec, 2020

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Attendees:

Neil Soiffer

Louis Maher

Bruce Miller

David Carlisle

Deyan Ginev

David Farmer

Sam Dooley

Murray Sargent

Steve Noble

Moritz Schubotz

Patrick Ion



Agenda:

Moritz we give a presentation on some ideas for potentially using

schema.org
<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fschema.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cfefab49cca0b4ba60d5c08d8a13b46df%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637436623247360905%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=T24hzDslrl2EVy4dBZhOQnN6%2F2uCxOl6bcaLNRY%2BNRQ%3D&reserved=0>

 and RDFa or microdata instead of coming up with a unique MathML 'intent'
attr. Discussion will follow on the pros and cons of this approach.

For the contents of the slides, please see the attachments to his email to
the CG list
<https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-mathml4/2020Dec/0018.html>



MSCH: Schema built to help search engines on web pages.

MSCH: Schema from Microsoft. Describes what is on the web page.

Markup things as close to the item being described as possible.

Showed examples from Wikipedia. Use predefined data types to describe an
item in detail.

LM: RDFA looks like schema.

MSCH: RDFA is more general.

LM: There is an RDFA primer at https://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-primer/

NS: Put up web pages using schema.org and see how well the search engines
can find them.

MS: What does it mean to search for math?

Action: MSA: Will ask Bing people to come to a meeting to discuss what is
possible for search.

MS: What do we want search to do?

DK: Hard to do search experiments because it takes time for a search engine
to find your test web page.

Action: DG: Said he would do some search experiments for January.

NS: Next meeting January 14 2021.

NS: Talk about search engine results for the next meeting.

BM: We must find out what Google and Bing will accept for search parameters.