Re: Schema.org v1.6 release candidate: Roles, various fixes, site navigation improvements

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 02:51:20PM +0000, Wallis,Richard wrote:
>>From my experience it is easier to get your head around/discuss
>>examples in Turtle and then referring to the RDFa/JSON-LD/Microdata
>>see how it would be then be implemented.
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>I’ve been thinking about suggesting an optional Turtle tab for a while - so I am now.

So let's remember the intended audience of schema.org: "a collection of
schemas that webmasters can use to markup HTML pages in ways recognized
by major search providers, and that can also be used for structured data
interoperability" (from the home page).

Any of us that want to convert the RDFa or microdata or JSON-LD to any
other format certainly can; we have a plethora of tools (online and
offline) at our disposal.

The reason the examples show the plain text / unadorned HTML by default
is to provide a gentle stepping stone for those webmasters to learn how
to augment their HTML. And arguably that simplicity is one of the reasons for schema.org's
adoption: it is very friendly towards beginners.

Using Turtle as a means of communicating extension proposals makes
sense. I don't think layering more obscure markup examples onto the main
schema.org site does.

For what it's worth, any time I'm looking for an example of a property
or type in use, I just grep
https://github.com/rvguha/schemaorg/blob/master/data/examples.txt --
however, for webmasters that's not going to be an easy option. Perhaps a
worthwhile enhancement to the schema.org site to enable simpler lookup
would be a "search by property or type" option?

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>On 18 Jun 2014, at 15:44, Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net> wrote:
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>> On 18 Jun 2014 at 15:26, Dan Brickley wrote:
>>> On 18 June 2014 14:15, Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl> wrote:
>>>> Does this include *real* licenses URIs like
>>>> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
>>>> ?
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>>> Like in the last example in http://schema.org/WebPage ? :)
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>>> (I realise readers don't know what is in each example 'tab' until they
>>> look... maybe we could improve that)
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>> I think the problem is, that it is very hard to "see" what data is in the default's tab (without markup) blob of text. It's almost impossible to skim it. I'm not sure whether schema.org wants to go down that route, but I think even for people that have no idea about how JSON-LD works (or even what it is), it is much easier to skim and understand. So perhaps that easiest tweak would be to show the JSON-LD tab by default!?
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>> Markus Lanthaler
>> @markuslanthaler
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