Re: WebID-ISSUE-66 (microdata): Microdata Support [WebID Spec]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:27 AM, WebID Incubator Group Issue Tracker <
sysbot+tracker@w3.org> wrote:

>
> WebID-ISSUE-66 (microdata): Microdata Support [WebID Spec]
>
> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/track/issues/66
>
> Raised by: Ted Thibodeau
> On product: WebID Spec
>
> Kingsley Idehen proposed that we support Microdatata such as the one
> pasted below.
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-webid/2011Nov/0270.html
>
> <div xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
>     xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#">
> <div itemscope=""
> itemid="
> http://id.myopenlink.net/about/id/entity/http/graph.facebook.com/kidehen"
>     itemtype="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person">
> <div itemprop="http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/cert#key" itemscope=""
>         itemtype="http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/cert#RSAPublicKey">
> <div itemprop="http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/cert#exponent">65537</div>
> <div itemprop="http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/cert#modulus">
> e10aab5c72781f60eb8955b2ea903319c199edd2201842e0840d43048bf018cc92b160
>     fedb3af19a58f193d4a4dc22ea01ecaff1ced0e1d612670daacd6743474b00ca3305ce
>     2be6ebbd911d15137278d8ccc3455ef9478134ee5e292b6498c0d74c1fa240bca71175
>     1674d8067b9984a0a3c98bdf9a0fb967f32ef1d59bad6d76e2d98b6ec4193db239ada7
>     c893fe479f59bf574f34a042e69fb3bd2536f1b730446ffc70806949daf6294ba35ccc
>     d1b72bef08d3604a8daff1df2a8e53af9468d92bdd0a9a52574cafdec1630174057b31
>     fe8a6dffa7bcbcf24862f0ec9611c6a2e7bd66459d6e9e41d3775fa7851cd20d594309
>     0b3fea44545e5abba4aa69
> </div>
> </div>
> </div>
> </div>
>
> (the above uses the old ontology, so we'd need a version for the new one)
>
> Dan Brickley pointed out
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-webid/2011Nov/0306.html
>
> "What I'd rather see now, instead of gigantic mail threads in my inbox,
> is a nice tight well-packaged and tested .js library that reads RDFa,
> Microdata and sure Microformats2 as well. If half the angst about
> 'picking the winner' I see here could go into coding a format-agnostic
> HTML reader in .js, we'd all be a better place.
>
> Mo McRobers identified the following tasks:
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xg-webid/2011Nov/0326.html
>
> a. Spec how a WebID profile graph would look serialised in terms of
> Microdata
> b. Spec how an application can process RDF/XML _and_ RDFa _and_ Microdata
> in a uniform fashion for the basic verification (i.e, public key
> description)
> c. Spec how an application can process RDF/XML _and_ RDFa _and_ Microdata
> in a uniform fashion for arbitrary information, such as profile fields
> (display name, homepage, online accounts, etc.)
>
>
Note that Gregg Kellogg is working on a microdata to RDF conversion
algorithm [1], so once that spec is stable, and RDF libraries start to
support it, we could add microdata to the spec with very minimal changes.

Steph.

[1]
https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/htmldata/raw-file/62761f79513a/microdata-rdf/index.html