On 6 December 2014 at 22:36, Wiki Billinghurst billinghurstwiki@gmail.com wrote:
- if the schema.org metadata is a preferred means to progress, what
is the recommended means to progress such an issue
I hesitate to mention it, as I'm aware that this is likely to start a debate with lots of heat and little light, but you should be aware that schema.org is (was?) a mostly-failed attempt by the big search engines to get a new standard for meta-data widely used faster than had it gone through the existing processes, and declaring it "a preferred means to progress" is a very good way to start a fight with certain kinds of techies. :-)
- presumably some of this fits into the discussion about Structured
Data discussion, and what means is there to include this into that discussion?
My personal preference would be for our efforts to focus on using Wikibase (either on wikidata.org or in "local" installs) for structured data and meta-data alike, rather than forking the workload. Emitting RDFa sourced from Wikibase on related pages sounds like a reasonable way to achieve more richly-laded pages which is helpful for users (and with the side-effect, rather than primary intent, of SEO).
Thoughts from others?
J.