- From: Jarno van Driel <jarnovandriel@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:21:50 +0200
- To: Stéphane Corlosquet <scorlosquet@gmail.com>
- Cc: Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>, "martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org" <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>, Vicki Tardif Holland <vtardif@google.com>, "Jason Johnson (BING)" <jasjoh@microsoft.com>, W3C Web Schemas Task Force <public-vocabs@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CADK2AU3xeYXaDxHBpPTTJxp4Jw=t_ZNUi9hdDSEaSMAhyJYy7Q@mail.gmail.com>
>
> "The trick is to avoid relying on an explicit value for 'url', and
> instead use the href value as the URI as the Webpage. This is in fact much
> more in line with Linked Data best practices and it avoids blank nodes. A
> pet peeve of mine is that Schema.org relies too heavily on an explicit
> 'url' property in its examples. If the 'url' property is not provided,
> consumers such as Google should simply use the resource URI provided in
> @itemid (microdata), @href/@resource (RDFa) or @id in JSON-LD."
Kudos for this solution, it's a beauty. But...
Unfortunately the current support for @itemid and @resource by the sponsors
is unreliable. Let me illustrate by giving an example:
(parsing these through rdfa.info/play/, Structured Data Linter, Structured
Data Testing Tool (=Google ) and Structured Data Validator (=Yandex) will
illustrate the issue). And I know, by testing it, that Google's WMT doesn't
handle @itemid @@resource very well either.
Microdata:
<body>
<a href="http://example.com/article" itemscope itemtype="
http://schema.org/Article">
<span itemprop="name">Multiple identical @itemid's don't merge</span>
</a>
<a href="http://example.com/article" itemscope itemtype="
http://schema.org/Article">
<span itemprop="description">Google (WMT and SDTT) and Yandex (SDV)
fail to merge 2 entities with the same @href/@itemid</span>
</a>
</body>
RDFa:
<body vocab="http://schema.org/">
<a href="http://example.com/article" typeof="Article">
<span property="name">Multiple identical @itemid's don't merge</span>
</a>
<a href="http://example.com/article" typeof="Article">
<span property="description">Google (WMT and SDTT) and Yandex (SDV)
fails to merge 2 entities with the same @href, however Yandex succeeds when
@resource is specified where Google does not</span>
</a>
</body>
Which does lead me to say that something needs to change in the way the
sponsors deal with @resource (and @href) before relying on Stéphane's
solution (again, which I think is a beauty).
I see it as a bit of a disgrace the Structured Data Linter is the only tool
that's able to parse both microdata and RDFa examples successfully. It most
certainly doesn't help one bit in global identifiers being deployed by web
developers. I for one would not expect the sponsors to be behind in
supporting this.
2014-09-17 7:12 GMT+02:00 Stéphane Corlosquet <scorlosquet@gmail.com>:
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com> wrote:
>
>> On 16 September 2014 21:50, Jarno van Driel <jarnovandriel@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Not much really, it's a custom I picked up because the W3 Validator
>> > (http://validator.w3.org/) kept complaining about not providing a
>> @title for
>> > anchors, which it stopped complaining about if one added an empty
>> @title. So
>> > I became accustomed to alway specifying a @title, even it it's empty.
>> >
>> > To be honest I don't even know if the workaround is still needed or
>> not, I
>> > haven't looked into it for ages. :)
>> >
>> > I'll remove it from the document though.
>>
>> Ah thanks, I thought it might be some wiki markup / escaping artifact.
>>
>> It's a big document. Maybe we could settle on one single core example
>> that applies new Itemlist to the breadcrumbs usecase?
>>
>> A lot of people are interested in knowing how
>> https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/185417?hl=en should look.
>>
>> Here's the old markup:
>>
>> <div itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
>> <a href="http://www.example.com/dresses" itemprop="url">
>> <span itemprop="title">Dresses</span>
>> </a> ›
>> </div>
>> <div itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
>> <a href="http://www.example.com/dresses/real" itemprop="url">
>> <span itemprop="title">Real Dresses</span>
>> </a> ›
>> </div>
>> <div itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
>> <a href="http://www.example.com/clothes/dresses/real/green"
>> itemprop="url">
>> <span itemprop="title">Real Green Dresses</span>
>> </a>
>> </div>
>>
>> How concisely can we do this with new ItemList? Does this look
>> monsterously verbose, or bearable?
>>
>> <ol itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ItemList">
>> <li itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope=""
>> itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem">
>> <span itemprop="item" itemscope="" itemtype="
>> http://schema.org/WebPage">
>> <a href="http://www.example.com/dresses" itemprop="url">
>> <span itemprop="title">Dresses</span>
>> </a>
>> </span>
>> </li>
>> › <li itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope=""
>> itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem">
>> <span itemprop="item" itemscope="" itemtype="
>> http://schema.org/WebPage">
>> <a href="http://www.example.com/dresses/real" itemprop="url">
>> <span itemprop="title">Real Dresses</span>
>> </a>
>> </span>
>> </li>
>> › <li itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope=""
>> itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem">
>> <span itemprop="item" itemscope="" itemtype="
>> http://schema.org/WebPage">
>> <a href="http://www.example.com/clothes/dresses/real/green"
>> itemprop="url">
>> <span itemprop="title">Real Green Dresses</span>
>> </a>
>> </span>
>> </li>
>> </ol>
>>
>
> This example can be simplified by removing one level of nesting, as shown
> in this example in RDFa, which I tested in Play <http://rdfa.info/play/>:
>
> <ol vocab="http://schema.org/" typeof="ItemList">
> <li property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem">
> <a property="item" typeof="WebPage" href="
> http://www.example.com/dresses">
> <span property="title">Dresses</span>
> </a>
> <meta property="position" content="1">
> </li>
> › <li property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem">
> <a property="item" typeof="WebPage" href="
> http://www.example.com/dresses/real">
> <span property="title">Real Dresses</span>
> </a>
> <meta property="position" content="2">
> </li>
> </ol>
>
> The trick is to avoid relying on an explicit value for 'url', and instead
> use the href value as the URI as the Webpage. This is in fact much more in
> line with Linked Data best practices and it avoids blank nodes. A pet peeve
> of mine is that Schema.org relies too heavily on an explicit 'url' property
> in its examples. If the 'url' property is not provided, consumers such as
> Google should simply use the resource URI provided in @itemid (microdata),
> @href/@resource (RDFa) or @id in JSON-LD.
>
> Equivalent JSON-LD:
> {
> "@id": "_:g70204145541180",
> "@type": "ItemList",
> "itemListElement": [
> "_:g70204145492480",
> "_:g70204145237140"
> ]
> },
> {
> "@id": "_:g70204145492480",
> "@type": "ListItem",
> "item": "http://www.example.com/dresses",
> "position": "1"
> },
> {
> "@id": "_:g70204145237140",
> "@type": "ListItem",
> "item": "http://www.example.com/dresses/real",
> "position": "2"
> },
> {
> "@id": "http://www.example.com/dresses",
> "@type": "WebPage",
> "title": "Dresses"
> },
> {
> "@id": "http://www.example.com/dresses/real",
> "@type": "WebPage",
> "title": "Real Dresses"
> }
>
>
> --
> Steph.
>
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