Re: On Vocabulary Draft and Schema.org

On 12/19/2014 07:23 PM, Harry Halpin wrote:
> We've been discussing this internally inside W3C.
> 
> We think it's fine to go forward *if* the URIs that overlap with
> schema.org are clearly demarcated as such and due credit is given.
> There's a few options here, and James can chose whatever way he likes:
> 
> We can either add a note that for overlapping names, the namespace is
> "to be determined".  If the WG prefers, one can also to say for terms
> that have overlap: "these terms are spelled and have the same
> definitions as the identical terms in schema.org" or "these terms are
> the term  as defined by schema.org on yyyy-mm-dd"
> 
> What we don't want is copying from schema.org that is unattributed or
> seems to be a "fork" of schema.org without due acknowledgement.
> 
> By the time this has to hit Last Call/CR, we should have the
> relationship with schema.org more clear and this should make life easier
> for all involved, ideally so that we can refer to schema.org URIs
> directly and re-use them re a stable normative reference.
great news Harry, thank you for helping with further clarifications on
this issue!


> 
> P.S.: Apologies re last meeting, was dealing with European Commission,
> who renewed our funding for working on the Social Web for next year!
thanks for dealing with all this unfortunate EU bureaucracy!

Received on Friday, 19 December 2014 18:34:45 UTC