- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 22:35:40 +0100
- To: Brian Tremblay <schema@btrem.com>
- Cc: "schema.org Mailing List" <public-schemaorg@w3.org>
On 22 July 2016 at 21:55, Brian Tremblay <schema@btrem.com> wrote: > On 7/22/16 1:22 PM, Dan Brickley wrote: >> >> On 22 July 2016 at 20:41, Brian Tremblay <schema@btrem.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 7/22/16 6:04 AM, Elias Kaerle wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> Schema.org is, in my understanding, the first big movement to >>>> make the semantic web real. >>> >>> >>> No, that would be microformats: >>> >>> http://microformats.org/wiki/about >> >> >> I don't see this comparison going anywhere useful. > > > ? There was a misstatement. I corrected it. Microformats came first, and in > fact Hixie borrowed from it to create microdata, which AIUI is where efforts > like www.data-vocabulary.org/ started. And again AIUI, schema.org is the > child of www.data-vocabulary.org. There's a ton more history dating back to the mid '90s and earlier, Microformats was important but it wasn't the only ancestor... Dan
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