- From: Boris Villazón Terrazas <bvillazon@fi.upm.es>
- Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:50:44 +0200
- To: Francisco Javier López Pellicer <fjlopez@unizar.es>
- CC: Brandon Schwartz <brandon@boomajoom.com>, Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>, Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>, Giovanni Tummarello <giovanni.tummarello@deri.org>, semantic-web <semantic-web@w3c.org>
Hi Francisco Thanks for the pointers, specially [1]. I'll try to include sitemap4rdf [2] into the list of sitemap generators Boris [1] http://code.google.com/p/sitemap-generators/wiki/SitemapGenerators [2] http://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/2010/sitemap4rdf/ On 05/04/2011 10:30, Francisco Javier López Pellicer wrote: > Hi, > > Meanwhile, we can use the Sitemap protocol to point to human readable > (HTML+RDFa) VoID descriptions. I mean, a pragmatic "semantic" sitemap > tool should be a tool that creates for a linked dataset > > (1) its VoID description (this step is optional) > > (2) a standard sitemap (such as the tools in [1]) with links to > relevant resources in the linked dataset (mandatory) and a VoID > description (optional but recommended) > > I think that this approach is simpler and don't require to convince > SEO consultants. > > In addition, we can use the Google extensions. For example, this one > [2] about Code Search. This is a valid description: > > <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" > > xmlns:codesearch="http://www.google.com/codesearch/schemas/sitemap/1.0"> > <url> > <!-- the HTML+RDFa --> > <loc>http://dbpedia.org/page/Armenia</loc> > </url> > <url> > <!-- the data (the code in Google terms) --> > <loc>http://dbpedia.org/data/Armenia.rdf</loc> > <codesearch:codesearch> > <codesearch:filetype>xml</codesearch:filetype> > </codesearch:codesearch> > </url> > </urlset> > > > [1] http://code.google.com/p/sitemap-generators/wiki/SitemapGenerators > [2] http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=75225 > > Cheers, > > -- fjlopez > > Brandon Schwartz wrote: >> I think that as Google and major search engines focus on quality of >> information instead of quantity or simple backlink counts, they will >> begin accepting semantic sitemaps. In the mean time, I think that >> using both semantic and standard sitemaps is a viable option. >> >> As soon as SEO people are informed about the relevance that the >> semantic web has for them and semantic sitemaps are easily available >> (say as extensions in CMS systems such as >> http://drupal.org/project/xmlsitemap) then I think it will take off. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Apr 4, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Boris Villazón >> Terrazas<bvillazon@fi.upm.es> wrote: >> >>> Hi all >>>> On 4 Apr 2011, at 13:58, Martin Hepp wrote: >>>>> I agree. But it is unlikely that Google will accept semantic >>>>> sitemaps and it will be hard or impossible to convice SEO >>>>> consultants to waive a Google-valid sitemap in favor of a semantic >>>>> sitemap. So as of now, I think it is the best we can get. >>>> Yes, I agree with this assessment. >>> I'm talking from my ignorance .... but let's try to be optimistic. >>> Let's hope that some day Google will accept semantic sitemaps ... ;) >>> >>> Boris >>> >>> >>> >>
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