- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 16:47:50 -0700
- To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, Linked JSON <public-linked-json@w3.org>, RDF-WG Group <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
Received on Thursday, 16 May 2013 23:48:17 UTC
On 16 May 2013 13:51, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org> wrote: > > On 16 May 2013 07:08, "Manu Sporny" <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote: >> >> Google just added JSON-LD support to Gmail. It was announced at Google >> I/O (thanks to Bob Du Charme for spotting it): >> >> https://developers.google.com/gmail/schemas/embedding-schemas-in-emails >> >> This is a pretty big validation of the technology. Great work to >> everyone that has been involved in the grueling process of getting the >> specs to where they are today! We should all be very proud of this >> breakthrough! >> >> They have decided to not use a URL in the '@context'. I'm currently >> trying to find out why they did this. If they did this on purpose, we >> may have to do another LC to accept 'keywords' in the @context field. > > Happy to discuss this in detail after Google IO finishes i.e. next week. > > Briefly, this was all about simplicity for partners... > >> Ideally, we can just ask them to put 'http://' in front of the >> parameter. It's the only place that they deviated from the spec (which >> is actually pretty good). A couple of points on this: 1. We (Google) can parse this if written @context="http://schema.org" and we'll find a way to document that. 2. We'd also like to start a conversation about allowing the simpler, shorter form by defaulting to http:// if not present. Dan
Received on Thursday, 16 May 2013 23:48:17 UTC