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 micro

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

[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

Re: [whatwg] Annotating structured data that HTML has no semantics for

2009-05-12 Thread Peter Mika
Just a quick comment on: it uses prefixes, which most authors simply do not understand, and which many implementors end up getting wrong (e.g. SearchMonkey hard-coded certain prefixes in its first implementation, Google's handling of RDF blocks for license declarations is all done with A