Re: Facebook's Open Graph Protocol

On 2010-04-26, at 9:18 PM, Tom Morris wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Renato Iannella <renato@nicta.com.au> wrote:
>> 
>> On 27 Apr 2010, at 00:04, Harry Halpin wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm hoping some of you have seen this already, which is Facebook's
>>> deployment of RDFa, the Open Graph Protocol [1]
>>> 
>>> Any opinions?
>> 
>> Disappointing in that they ignore the past and "reinvent" a new namespace for already well established semantics....
>> 
>> ie: they *should* have used DC and vCard for much of what they define here: http://opengraphprotocol.org/
>> 
>> It is no excuse to be "inspired by Dublin Core" (see bottom of page) then ignore it...
> 
> I wonder if that says anything about how well the Cambridge crowd has
> explained themselves to the "real world."

Partly, and partly the modus operandi for Facebook.

-- Dick

Received on Tuesday, 27 April 2010 08:29:42 UTC