Re: No more Schema.org data on YouTube

On 9 Oct 2017 15:21, "Ed Summers" <ehs@pobox.com> wrote:


> On Oct 9, 2017, at 9:21 AM, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com> wrote:
>
> To stress Charles' point once more, there are 100s of people on this
list. I fear none of them will get much out of speculation on the internal
architecture of Google's ( / YouTube's) Web infrastructure, and those of us
with some modest knowledge of it can't talk much about it anyway. That said
I strongly suspect the particular issue under discussion is simply a bug.
Out of scope for this group's real focus.

It seems to me that talking about implementations of scheme.org is an
important part of talking about schema.org -- if not, I'm not quite sure
what I'm doing on this list.


There's truth in that for sure, but there has to be a limit. Speculating on
internal  details of Google's implementation (and general Web
infrastructure) is almost always painfully inaccurate, and doesn't help
encourage participation from eg Microsoft, Yandex et al here.

There are for sure lessons from our implementation at Google that are worth
sharing. One is that it is painful that the rdfa/microdata/jsonld trinity
don't have out of the box support in many toolkits, esp JS. Also that the
interplay of web components with structured data formats seems worthy of
more attention. And that remote fetching of json-ld schemas may make it an
awkward format for using in IoT due to privacy/security issues. Happy to
talk about any of this and more... but can't help with the more speculative
"how Google works" stuff for hopefully obvious reasons.

Dan


//Ed