Re: The Vocabulary, Schema.org governance, etc.

Hi Paola,

Perhaps vertical is not the best word, but certainly addressing the use
cases of an industry/business that is only a small part of the W3C
membership.

AFAIK, W3C has now industry-oriented interest groups, but even that is a
relatively new creation and didn't exist when schema.org started.

Cheers,
Peter

On 9/25/14, 4:20 PM, "Paola Di Maio" <paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote:

>Hellow Peter
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>thanks for sharing insights
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>makes sense, but......
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> not sure I can see schema.org purely as vertical
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>would have thought that vertical is 'domain oriented''
>while horizontal is it applies across domains
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>no?
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>that may depend on a given worldview perhaps ? :-)
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>PDM
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>On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Peter Mika <pmika@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
>> Hi Renato,
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>> The W3C in particular did not want to take on vertical vocabulary
>>projects
>> in the past. Tim B-L emphasized in multiple talks that the W3C would
>>like
>> to focus on developing ontology languages, and let industry develop
>> vertical solutions. (To me the examples you mentioned such as SKOS and
>> PROV are part of the language infrastructure.)
>>
>> schema.org is such a vertical solution based on the needs of large web
>> consumers.
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>> Best,
>> Peter
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Received on Thursday, 25 September 2014 14:39:52 UTC