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Structured Web Gets Massive Boost
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has creator: Mike Bergman
maker: Mike Bergman
created: 2011-06-03T02:57:36Z
content: Contrary to Some Views, Google and Co.'s Microdata Effort will Also Boost RDF In my opinion, perhaps the most important event for the structured Web since RDF was released a dozen years ago was today's joint announcement by the search engine triumvirate of Google, Bing and Yahoo! releasing Schema.org. Schema.org is a vendor specification for nearly 300 mini-schema (or structured record definitions) that can be used to tag information in Web pages. These schema are organized into a clean little hierarchy and cover many of the leading things -- from organizations to people to products and creative works -- that can be written about and characterized on the Web. These schema specifications are based on the microdata standard presently under review as part of the pending HTML5 specification. Microdata are set record descriptions of key-value pair attributes that can be embedded into the HTML Web page language. These microdata schema are similar to microformats, but broader in coverage and extensible. Microdata is also simpler than RDFa, another W3C specification that the Schema.org organizers call ". . . extensible and very expressive, but the substantial complexity of the language has contributed to slower adoption." Is the Initiative a Slap in RDF's Face? Various forums have been alive with howls and questions from many RDF and RDFa advocates that this initiative negates years of effort behind those formats. Yet I and my company, Structured Dynamics, which base our entire technology approach on semantics and RDF, do not see this announcement as a threat or rejection. What gives; what is the difference in perspective? In our view, RDF and its triple representations in its data model, is the simplest and most expressive means to represent any data or any data relationship. As such, RDF, and its language extensions such as OWL and ontologies, provide a robust and flexible canonical data model for capturing any extant data or schema. No matter what the native form of the …
encoded: Contrary to Some Views, Google and Co.’s Microdata Effort will Also Boost RDF In my opinion, perhaps the most important event for the structured Web since RDF was released a dozen years ago was today’s joint announcement by the search engine triumvirate of Google, Bing and Yahoo! releasing Schema.org. Schema.org is a vendor specification for nearly 300 mini-schema (or structured record definitions) that can be used to tag information in Web pages. These schema are organized into a clean little hierarchy and cover many of the leading things — from organizations to people to products and creative works — that can be written about and characterized on the Web. These schema specifications are based on the microdata standard presently under review as part of the pending HTML5 specification. Microdata are set record descriptions of key-value pair attributes that can be embedded into the HTML Web page language. These microdata schema are similar to microformats, but broader in coverage and extensible. Microdata is also simpler than RDFa, another W3C specification that the Schema.org organizers call “. . . extensible and very expressive, but the substantial complexity of the language has contributed to slower adoption.” Is the Initiative a Slap in RDF’s Face? Various forums have been alive with howls and questions from many RDF and RDFa advocates that this initiative negates years of effort behind those formats. Yet I and my company, Structured Dynamics, which base our entire technology approach on semantics and RDF, do not see this announcement as a threat or rejection. What gives; what is the difference in perspective? In our view, RDF and its triple representations in its data model, is the simplest and most expressive means to represent any data or any data relationship. As such, RDF, and its language extensions such as OWL and ontologies, provide a robust and flexible canonical data model for capturing any extant data or schema. No matter what the native form of the so…
topic: Adaptive Information
topic: Structured Web
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links to: schema.org
links to: structured Web
links to: RDF
links to: Google
links to: Bing
links to: Yahoo!
links to: Schema.org
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links to: HTML5
links to: microformats
links to: RDFa
links to: W3C
links to: Structured Dynamics
links to: naive data structs
links to: Ian Hickson
links to: WhatWG
links to: couple of years back
links to: RDF advocate
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links to: StructuredValue
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