- From: Brian Tremblay <schema@btrem.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 15:29:22 -0700
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>
- Cc: "schema.org Mailing List" <public-schemaorg@w3.org>
On 7/22/16 2:35 PM, Dan Brickley wrote: > 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... Cetainly not, and I almost said as much in my first message in this thread. HTML is, itself, an attempt at semantics, as anyone familiar with Tim Berners-Lee and the web know. A slightly more complete list of semantic web efforts would include these: html html 2.0 rdf html 4.x xhtml rdfa microformats microdata Some of these were partial or complete failures. -- Brian Tremblay
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