Re: ItemList proposal

I think it would be better to have a subtype schema:Breadcrumb of schema:ItemList for breadcrumbs, even if that does not new add properties to ItemList. 
A list of breadcrumbs is a very special form of a list in a Web resource. You may have multiple lists of URIs in the markup yet only want one (or a few) lists to be used for breadcrumb functionality.

So in Microdata, this would look as follows:

<ol itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Breadcrumb">
  <li itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem">
      <span itemprop="item" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/WebPage">
	    <a itemprop="url" href="http://www.example.com/dresses">
        <span itemprop="title">Dresses</span>
		</a>
      </span>
      <meta itemprop="position" content="1">
  </li>
  <li itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem">
      <span itemprop="item" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/WebPage">
	    <a itemprop="url" href="http://www.example.com/dresses/real">
        <span itemprop="title">Real Dresses</span>
		</a>
      </span>
      <meta itemprop="position" content="2">
  </li>
</ol>

(I was at first unsure whether <span itemprop="title">Real Dresses</span> can be nested inside the <a> element, but at least the Google Structured Data Testing Tool and http://foolip.org/microdatajs/live/ properly extract this. Otherwise one would need an ugly nesting of a <link> element inside an <a> element.)

This is still more verbose than the historical data-vocabulary.org markup, but makes the order explicit without relying on the DOM tree.

> 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.

In principle, I strongly support this. It should become an officially documented pattern. But wouldn't we have to update the Microdata spec for this? In Microdata, I see no way for setting the itemid via the href attribute. So e.g.

<a itemprop="item" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/WebPage" href="http://www.example.com/dresses">

in the following example

<ol itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Breadcrumb">
  <li itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem">
      <a itemprop="item" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/WebPage" href="http://www.example.com/dresses">
        <span itemprop="title">Dresses</span>
	  </a>
      <meta itemprop="position" content="1">
  </li>
</ol>

will not work - the value for href is simply ignored.

Btw, there was a related discussion on public-html-data-tf@w3.org a while ago:

    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-data-tf/2011Oct/0197.html

Best

Martin


On 17 Sep 2014, at 07:12, Stéphane Corlosquet <scorlosquet@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> 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:
> 
> <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.

Received on Wednesday, 17 September 2014 07:39:41 UTC