- From: Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:01:15 +0000
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>
- CC: public-vocabs@w3.org
I'll focus on the audience bit, i.e. On 30/11/2012 19:23, Dan Brickley wrote: > Hi folks > > A few things on the schema.org front: [..] > > 2. The Audience proposal; based on the RDFa schema in > https://bitbucket.org/elderos/schemaorg/src I've built a test version > of the schema.org site that includes the Audience proposal (see > http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/Audience ). The draft site is at > http://sdo99a.appspot.com e.g. see http://sdo99a.appspot.com/Audience [..] From a technical point of view, this is fine of course. From an ethical one, there are aspects I find seriously worrying if not potentially offensive. Why does anyone need to define the maximum age of an audience? An adult friend of mine is not a strong reader. He reads books targeted at 11 year olds - and enjoys them. Why put it in his face that he's reading children's books? Minimum age - fine. We understand that. But you won't ever see a maximum age on a film or game. Daft. Drop it. Gender? For a target audience? What? OK, so I'm a wishy washy dripping wet liberal but if a girl wants to play with "boys' toys" or a boy wants to read "chick lit" - why not? I think the content should speak for itself and the potential consumer decide whether he/she wants it. The Twilight saga is basically aimed at teenage girls, yes? I know at least one teenage boy that read the whole series and many post-teenage girls who enjoyed it too. Of course content *is* targeted at gender, but I don't think it should be part of the data. Drop it. The parental ones - i.e. this is for parents of children aged x - y does make sense. That's potentially useful for parents. HTH Phil. -- Phil Archer W3C eGovernment See you at the Transatlantic Research on Policy Modelling Workshop January 28 - 29 2013, Washington DC Details at http://www.crossover-project.eu/workshop.aspx http://philarcher.org +44 (0)7887 767755 @philarcher1
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