- From: Liddy Nevile <liddy@sunriseresearch.org>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 18:55:02 +1000
- To: Phil Barker <phil.barker@hw.ac.uk>
- Cc: Lorna Campbell <lmc@strath.ac.uk>, public-vocabs@w3.org
Phil basically the reason I am suggesting the RDFa is that I think you guys have done a great job but as we have now developed the ISO Metadata for Learning Resources standard (ISO 19788), and it is very RDF compliant, I think it'd help a lot of people if we could point to your explanation and show a consistent way of using the terms with both schema.org and the MLR - which is what I am working on in the AccessForAll standard (ISO 24751), for example. I cannot write the code myself but if you agree it'd help, I am sure we can find someone who can ... Liddy On 06/06/2014, at 4:07 PM, Phil Barker wrote: > > > Hello Liddy, thank you for your comments. Part of the reason for the > emphasis on microdata over RDFa is the inordinately long time it > took me to write the briefing (Lorna was much prompter with her > contributions). I started before the recent updates that put RDFa > and JSON-LD on an equal footing on the schema.org site in terms of > examples etc. I didn't have space for bilingual examples in > microdata and RDFa and didn't want to use one syntax while the main > site I would recommend for people who decide to implement schema > used the other. Also, I must admit find microdata easier that RDFa > and I find it easier to explain schema.org in terms of microdata > (yes I know RDFa lite 1.1 is easier that RDFa, but that's one more > thing to explain). > I hope the code examples are enough to illustrate the schema.org > approach, I didn't really want to go to far into the syntax > options. The publication is licensed cc-by (and we'll be putting > editable text online soon), if someone wants to produce an RDFa > version I'ld be happy to do what I can to help. > > Phil > > > Sent from my ASUS Pad > > Liddy Nevile <liddy@sunriseresearch.org> wrote: > >> Phil and Lorna >> thanks for this really useful work - >> >> My only comment is a little sadness that you seem to privilege >> microdata over RDFa etc... You say that microdata is the most >> frequently used but, IMHO, you contribute to that situation by >> making >> it easy for folks to use microdata but don't show how to use RDFa. Of >> course you do refer to it etc but I wonder if in an explanation of >> schema.org that is sure to become very popular, it'd be good to >> include both approaches? >> >> Liddy >> >> >> On 06/06/2014, at 1:57 AM, Phil Barker wrote: >> >>> Hello all. >>> I hope you don't mind me using this list to advertise a briefing >>> paper which aims to describe schema.org. I also invite comments and >>> discussion on how it might be improved in future revisions. >>> >>> As part of our work for Creative Commons on managing the Learning >>> Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI), Cetis today publish a new >>> technical briefing paper “What is schema.org?”. >>> >>> We often find that when explaining the technology approach of LRMI >>> we are mostly talking about schema.org, so this briefing, which >>> describes the schema.org specification for a technical audience >>> should be of interest to anyone thinking about implementing or using >>> LRMI in a website or other tool. It should also be of interest to >>> people who plan to use schema.org for describing other types of >>> resource. >>> >>> You can download the briefing from http://publications.cetis.ac.uk/2014/960 >>> >>> Best regards, Phil >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Phil Barker @philbarker >>> LRMI, Cetis, ICBL http://people.pjjk.net/phil >>> Heriot-Watt University >>> >>> Ubuntu: http://xkcd.com/456/ >>> not so much an operating system as a learning opportunity. >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2011-2013 >>> Top in the UK for student experience >>> Fourth university in the UK and top in Scotland (National Student >>> Survey 2012) >>> >>> >>> We invite research leaders and ambitious early career researchers to >>> join us in leading and driving research in key inter-disciplinary >>> themes. Please see www.hw.ac.uk/researchleaders for further >>> information and how >>> to apply. >>> >>> Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity >>> registered under charity number SC000278. >>> >>> >> >>
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