could crawlers follow rel="alternate" type="application/ld+json" ?

Hello,

On Tuesday during my presentation at http://paris.apidays.io/ I
mentioned schema.org on couple of slides and explained how it
contributes to evolution of distributed read-only API and already starts
moving towards read/write API with schema:Action and schema:target.

I also entertained the idea that besides embedding JSON-LD in <script>
tag of page HTML, publishers at some point possibly could also use link
rel="alternate" type="application/ld+json". Either in HTML <head> or in
HTTP header, example:
http://www.slideshare.net/elfpavlik/api-standardization-work-in-w3c-groups/58

While for read-only APIs embedding in HTML makes a lot of sense, for
RESTful read/write APIs people often want to have separate JSON
endpoints anyways. Transclusion of JSON-LD response in HTML
representation does add a little to each response, even that as of today
most clients still ignore that structured information. On the other
side, crawlers could very easily follow rel="alternate" links and still
index structured data this way.

I welcome feedback on this idea :)

+ Greetings from Paris o/

Received on Thursday, 10 December 2015 10:14:29 UTC