Re: Am I right that WebPage lacks a generic property for linking to WebPageElement?

Hi Wes,
Tanks, but I think we need a conceptual element at the level of schema.org, independent of syntax. One day people will use JSON-LD to expose respective information, so HTML5- or WAI-ARIA elements are of limited use.
Martin

On Jan 19, 2014, at 6:08 PM, Wes Turner wrote:

> WAI-ARIA:
> 
>     role="navigation" aria-label="main navigation"
> 
> HTML5:
> 
>     <nav aria-label="main navigation">
> 
> Though for backward compatibility, it may be helpful to also specify role="navigation" with HTML5 <nav> elements.
> 
> http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAI-ARIA
> 
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Using_HTML5_nav_element
> 
> Wes Turner
> On Jan 19, 2014 2:49 AM, "Martin Hepp" <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote:
> Dear all:
> 
> As far as I understand,
> 
>     http://schema.org/WebPageElement
> 
> would provide a nice way of exposing the meaning of, and meta-data for, page elements, which could be used by search engines e.g. for guessing the best contextual links (as opposed to breadcrumbs, which imply some kind of hierarchy). In particular, one could nicely use
> 
>     http://schema.org/SiteNavigationElement
> 
> to mark-up important links inside the page, which would often make good contextual links.
> 
> Unfortunately,
> 
>     http://schema.org/WebPage
> 
> does not define a generic property for linking from the WebPage to multiple
> 
>     http://schema.org/WebPageElement
> 
> entities in the same page.
> 
> Formally,
> 
>     http://schema.org/mentions
> 
> would work, but I am unsure whether this is intended.
> 
>     http://schema.org/isPartOf
> 
> would work from the perspective of the
> 
>     http://schema.org/SiteNavigationElement,
> 
> but could lead to circular processing of the data.
> 
>     http://schema.org/mainContentOfPage
> 
> works only for the most important WegPageElement.
> 
> I think the best solution would be to add a property
> 
>     http://schema.org/pageElement
> 
> Indicates that the web page element is a relevant part of the Web page (e.g. for linking from a web page to its site navigation elements).
> 
> What do others think? Did I miss anything?
> 
> Martin
> 
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