- From: Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 10:06:18 -0700
- To: public-vocabs@w3.org
On 9/27/13 8:48 AM, Dan Brickley wrote: > Suppressing or downplaying properties in schema.org document when they > are not much used in practice could be quite handy - but also risks > being a self-fulfilling prophecy. Stats from the search engines or > commoncrawl.org / http://webdatacommons.org/ could be useful here. It seems that eventually real use could lead to topic maps or word clouds that web page developers might approach as "hints" for common combinations. kc It > might also be useful (perhaps not on schema.org itself) to have > indications of which type/property combinations are actually used in > real services and tools. None of this is a substitute for tidying up > the schema definitions, but I do feel such softer techniques are very > much worth pursuing. We can't keep tightening schemas in the hope that > eventually we'll have made it impossible to express foolish things. It > is reasonable to seek a way of downplaying 'opening hours' on Country > without necessarily proclaiming that a Country can never ever have > opening hours... > > cheers, > > Dan > > -- Karen Coyle kcoyle@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
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