Re: Generic Property-Value Proposal for Schema.org

Let me first say I like the generic extension mechanism as a whole as well
as the property name 'additionalProperty'. It seems obvious in regards to
how to use.

Having quite some experience with eCommerce sites myself though, I also see
a some disadvantages for website owners. Especially for those who have a
site which sells many different types of products and get their product
info from supplier feeds or datasheets that generally don't contain this
type of data. Meaning that if a site-owner would want publish this type of
data, quite a lot of code development (and thus resources) would be needed.
And I suspect quite a lot of daily man hours as well, since it's the type
of data that's difficult to markup automated within a template system.

If a corporation with tens of thousands of products on their site(s) would
contemplate doing this, what would there to gain for them?

And from the perspective of data-consumers, e.g. schema.org's sponsors or
price-comparison sites: what are the advantages of having access to this
type of non-standardized data. Doesn't the fact that it's non-standardized
also mean it's data that's hard to process, especially when comparing
specific product specifications?


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:42 AM, martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org <
martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:

> Dear all:
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> I have just finalized a proposal on how to add support for generic
> property-value pairs to schema.org. This serves three purposes:
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> 1. It will allow to expose product feature information from thousands of
> product detail pages from retailers and manufacturers.
> 2. It will simplify the development of future extensions for specific
> types of products and services, because we do no longer need to standardize
> and define all relevant properties in schema.org and can instead defer
> the interpretation to the client.
> 3. It will serve as a clean, generic extension mechanism for properties in
> schema.org
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> The proposal with all examples is here:
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>     https://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/PropertyValuePairs
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> Your feedback will be very welcome.
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> Best wishes / Mit freundlichen Grüßen
>
> Martin Hepp
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> martin hepp  http://www.heppnetz.de
> mhepp@computer.org          @mfhepp
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