Re: Proposal: Looking inside tables

Yes

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On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Dan Scott <dan@coffeecode.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 05:04:40PM -0400, Omar Benjelloun (ط¹ظ…ط± ط¨ظ†ط¬ظ„ظˆظ†)
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Many useful datasets on the Web take the form of tables. The goal of this
> > proposal is to provide a simple, schema.org-friendly way to "look inside"
> > these tables, and map their contents into triples.
> >
> > This is an early draft proposal developed at Google. We're seeking
> feedback
> > from the community.
> >
> > The proposal is attached to this e-mail, and will be uploaded to the
> > WebSchemas/SchemaDotOrgProposals page shortly.
>
> My initial reaction to the HTML portion of the proposal is that using
> the table headers to relate the contents of table cells to properties is
> an immensely appealing shortcut; I had similar thoughts/wishes when
> setting up the laborious row-by-row markup that is the current
> alternative and even checked the specs in the hopes that something like
> that had already been defined!
>
> While the title of the proposal is "Describing tables with schema.org",
> will the ultimate targets of the HTML-oriented portion of this proposal
> be the RDF-in-HTML spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-in-html/) and
> (assuming that itemprop will be treated in the same way as property) the
> microdata spec, given that we would want all vocabs to be processed
> similarly?
>