Re: How to find all spec editors in my company?

The format of the editor information inside the spec doesn't matter very
much: a tool that's crawling and parsing HTML specs can pull out a <script
type="application/ld+json"> block about as easily as it can navigate
the <dd class="editor p-author h-card vcard"> that's used in non-JSON-LD
specs <https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts-4/>. I'm more asking if there's
an existing tool that is already crawling and pulling out the editor data,
and if not, which tool and database I should add it to.

(This would be a moment for the Semantic Web to shine, if there's some
generic tool that has been opportunistically crawling what JSON-LD blocks
exist in specs and pulling out their editors into a place I could just
query.)

Jeffrey

On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 10:14 AM Gregg Kellogg <gregg@greggkellogg.net>
wrote:

> Note that there’s a “doJsonLd" configuration option, which I really don’t
> think should be an option or should at least default to “true". It adds a
> JSON-LD block to the generated spec, which includes this type of
> information. It is primarily intended for SEO purposes, but if it was used
> uniformly, it would provide a convenient means of extracting editor/author
> information as well as citations.
>
> The example doesn’t show the editor’s institution, but it will if provided.
>
> Note that you don’t really need to understand how to process JSON-LD in
> order for this information to be retrievable, but if it was done
> universally, it could be used to maintain an improved specRef.
>
> Gregg Kellogg
> gregg@greggkellogg.net
>
> > On Apr 29, 2021, at 7:51 PM, Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@google.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi editors,
> >
> > I'm looking for a systematic way to identify everyone at Google who
> edits a web specification. I suspect we have tools that are 90% of the way
> to doing that, but I'm not sure which ones are closest and would accept
> patches to get the rest of the way there.
> >
> > * Specref: Lists names for editors, but not their organizations. The
> data comes from various sources, which also don't seem to generally include
> organizations or email addresses, even when the source specifications do.
> > * Reffy: Parses specifications, which means it has access to the nice
> markup around editors. However, its focus is on references, not editors.
> >
> > Do y'all know of any existing list of editors? If not, which tool do you
> think is the right one to start from?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jeffrey
>
>