Re: [whatwg] Microdata and Linked Data

2009-08-03 Thread Martin McEvoy
Hello Ian Ian Hickson wrote: I'm definitely against any in-page indirection mechanism, because we have seen with XML Namespaces (and with RDFa) that prefixes are simply a huge source of problems. They are indeed, XML namespaces fixed one problem calling different things by the same name bu

Re: [whatwg] Microdata and Linked Data

2009-08-03 Thread Ian Hickson
(I trimmed public-html from the CC list to avoid cross-posting, and because the whatwg list has had most of the traffic on this topic so far; please feel free to forward this to public-html if you would rather discuss that there instead.) On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Peter Mika wrote: > > The use of

Re: [whatwg] Microdata and Linked Data

2009-07-24 Thread Peter Mika
Fair point. Just brainstorming here: how about making about an attribute? http://";> Name: Amanda We still have two identifiers, but at least giving the URI is simplified. Best, Peter Julian Reschke wrote: Peter Mika wrote: Hi All, I've been taking a closer look at microdata. While I li

Re: [whatwg] Microdata and Linked Data

2009-07-24 Thread Peter Mika
Yes, #2 and #4 are quite related in that they both concern the abbreviation mechanism for URIs and might be considered alternative proposals. On the other hand, on #4, you are opening the gate to independent entities (be them organizations or individuals) to define the prefixes they would be u

Re: [whatwg] Microdata and Linked Data

2009-07-24 Thread Julian Reschke
Peter Mika wrote: Hi All, I've been taking a closer look at microdata. While I like the proposal in general, in particular the chance to unite microformat style annotations with some of the Semantic Web formalism (such as URIs for objects), there are still a number of points that I feel could

Re: [whatwg] Microdata and Linked Data

2009-07-24 Thread Eduard Pascual
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Peter Mika wrote: > [...] > #2 > > The other area that could be possibly improved is the connection of type > identifiers with ontologies on the web. I would actually like the notion of >  reverse domain names if > > -- there would be an explicit agreement that they

[whatwg] Microdata and Linked Data

2009-07-24 Thread Peter Mika
Hi All, I've been taking a closer look at microdata. While I like the proposal in general, in particular the chance to unite microformat style annotations with some of the Semantic Web formalism (such as URIs for objects), there are still a number of points that I feel could be improved. So h