- From: Knud Hinnerk Möller <knud.moeller@deri.org>
- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:45:53 +0200
- To: Noah Mendelsohn <noah@arcanedomain.com>
- Cc: public-rdfa-wg@w3.org
Hi, On 23 Sep 2010, at 16:50, Noah Mendelsohn wrote: > This is a comment on the RDFa API working draft of 23 September 2010 [1]. > > I suggest you try to avoid references to commercial products and organizations in the examples, e.g. "Amy has enriched her band's web-site to include Google Rich Snippets event information", and especially "Brian finds Amy's web-site through Google and opens the band's page." > > Especially the latter seems completely inappropriate. Wouldn't it be better, in an open standard, development of which is supported by many organizations including some of Google's competitors, to say "Brian uses a search engine to find Amy's web-site, and he opens the band's page."? Besides, if Google were to fade in importance, as Alta Vista did, the reference would become unnecessarily confusing to later readers. You have a point in saying that such references might be considered a bit one-sided or inappropriate by some. On the other hand, mentioning real technologies and products makes the use cases a lot more convincing. By putting in these references, we underline that such use cases are relevant right now, they can actually be implemented, and are not just some pie-in-the-sky fantasy conjured up by Semantic Web believers. Maybe it would be an option to broaden the references a bit and put in some Google competitors as well? E.g., Yahoo's search monkey technology comes to mind. Other opinions? Cheers, Knud > > Thank you. > > Noah > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-rdfa-api-20100923/ > ------------------------------------------------- Knud Möller, PhD +353 - 91 - 495086 Smile Group: http://smile.deri.ie Digital Enterprise Research Institute National University of Ireland, Galway Institiúid Taighde na Fiontraíochta Digití Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh
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