- From: <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 13:40:44 +0200
- To: Charles McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru>, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>
- Cc: W3C Web Schemas Task Force <public-vocabs@w3.org>
On 14 Apr 2014, at 12:34, Charles McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru> wrote:
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>> At the moment, I think it would be way better to either enhance Microdata by a reverse property mechanism, or to advocate the use of JSON-LD or RDFa for such cases,
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> I agree that one of these is a better solution than continuing to add specific inverses for properties (there are a random set there already).
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> I'm ambivalent about whether we should try to deprecate microdata, or improve it. In Russia in particular it is popular...
I think we should try to improve Microdata. It has proven to be a useful syntax for data markup in HTML. The move towards JSON-LD for more granular data in HTML will happen, IMO, in parallel and in other areas - like pages with a lot of data (e.g. automotive data sheets), quickly changing data (e.g. airfare tickets or timetable information), and in general RESTful APIs.
Of all the proposals now listed in
https://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/InverseProperties#Proposed_Action
I think the new @itemrole keyword with "rel" and "rev" as supported values and "rel" being the default is best. It is conceptually cleaner (since rel vs. rel is a modifier of the itemprop keyword) and it is backwards-compatible (no existing markup has to be changed).
Martin
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