[ckan-dev] schema.org

[Friedrich Lindenberg]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Seb Bacon <seb.bacon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, I've not seen that before.
>
> I wonder what the tradeoff is between increased page size and improved
> SEO; also, if there are any other potential benefits apart from SEO.
> It appears to replace RDFa, for example -- what does this mean for LOD
> if it's taken up widely...

That was my thought as well: while I'm sure it will receive some
appreciation from the linked data crowd (Michael Hausenblas seems to
be translating it to RDF as we speak) it really is a classic example
of the lower case semantic web beating up its uppercase brother. I
think its use of URIs in specifying an object graph in html pages is
pretty ingenious and the fact they get by without any of the RDF
language increases its chances for success a lot I think.

- Friedrich