Re: Design rationale behind the current schema for Facebook Open Graph Protocol

Yeah, Rotten Tomatoes is a better example right now.
http://ogit.heroku.com/inspect?url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10011268-oceans/

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Ian Jacobi <jacobi@csail.mit.edu> wrote:

>
> On May 1, 2010, at 5:35 PM, Peter Mika wrote:
>
>  Hi Fabien,
>>
>> Thanks for encoding our agreement from the workshop! I agree with all the
>> points below.
>>
>> Two additional comments:
>>
>> #1
>>
>> To strengthen commitment,  I would still encourage us to create a custom
>> XSLT that maps OGP to the desired representation in RDF/XML. I'm not sure
>> RIF or SPARQL Construct is powerful enough to express this mapping, and
>> almost everyone has an XSLT parser at hand.
>>
>> Would you take a crack at it? In a similar fashion, an OGP to JSON mapping
>> would be also highly desirable, otherwise implementations will diverge on
>> the JSON serialization.
>>
>
> I would be more than happy to try my hand at a RIF variant of the N3Rules
> file I wrote up and posted on the EtherPad page.  (Sandro in particular was
> insistent that I use RIF instead of N3Rules when writing the original file,
> so I know there's some desire for it.)  I don't think RIF would necessarily
> preclude an implementation (and the default set of built-ins might have
> capitalization, which cwm does not currently do with strings (as best I can
> tell).
>
>
>  #2
>>
>> The four generic attributes are required, i.e. something is not an OGP
>> document unless it has all four  (per spec, but maybe David can comment).
>>
>> It seems tricky to model this without a class (what would you put the
>> constraint on?), so maybe time to introduce an og:Document class as a holder
>> for these properties.
>>
>
> I suspect this is the case.  We would need to bring in OWL to express this
> though.
>
>
>
>> Peter
>>
>> p.s. Tools are already diverging? It looks like IMDB has OGP data, but
>> this tool listed on the OGP page doesn't find it:
>>
>>
>> http://www.opengraph.in/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt1315981%2F&format=html
>>
>
> I actually ran into this while testing my N3Rules file.  David stated that
> IMDB was using an earlier 'pre-release' version of OGP and thus does not
> reflect the current standard (e.g. the old "object_type" meta tag vs.
> "og:type").
>
> Ian
>

Received on Tuesday, 4 May 2010 07:31:08 UTC