Re: SKOS for schema.org proposal for discussion

Great example Martin.

guha


On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org
> wrote:

> A very simple use-case that we frequently face in e-commerce:
>
> Sites do have category information (sometimes even based on standard
> categories), but they are unable to include the authoritative URI of that
> category in the page markup, e.g. because it is simply not in their
> back-end database or because there is no simple translation from what they
> have in their database to the URI.
>
> A typical case are shop categories. Sites often do have a notion of
> product category, and even an hierarchical ordering, but they are unable to
> match that to the URIs of respective standards with reasonable effort.
>
> Having a SKOS-like mechanism in schema.org allows a site to expose its
> proprietary hierarchy and preserve the links from products to it. A search
> engine or other client can then try to consolidate categories across sites
> at consumption time.
>
> Let site owners expose as much data structure and semantics as they have
> available, but do not force them to lift the data to ideal heights... ;-)
>
> Martin
>
> On Oct 9, 2013, at 5:09 PM, Ed Summers wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com> wrote:
> >> ... in many many cases URLs can be used, ... but sometimes the thing
> >> we point to can also be usefully described inline too, with further
> >> properties and relationships. 'URL' is very very vague and doesn't
> >> address the inline description possibility.
> >
> > Thanks Dan. I guess I'm failing to imagine a scenario where someone
> > who was describing a job posting would want to describe an
> > occupational category inline and relate it to other occupational
> > categories (broader, narrower, etc), or make other skos like
> > assertions.
> >
> > //Ed
> >
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