On 6/6/11 6:32 PM, Martin Hepp wrote:
I think that technically, the only thing they want to avoid is people using 2 -
3 different markups for *the same* content, but the way they are currently
describe it may make site-owners think that when they want to please Google,
they should leave their fingers off RDFa.
So the crucial thing is to convince them to clearly articulate that they accept
the use of additional markup in RDFa, so that quick-and-dirty SEO coders do not
avoid RDFa for unfounded fears.
Truth of this matter is SEO coders go wherever the dominant search
engine(s) tell them to go. In addition, they were always going to find
RDFa a stretch to adopt. Remember, this is the black hat SEO crowd, they
are kings of "quick and dirty" .
For you, I really think it boils down to stuff you started doing a while
back i.e., producing Microdata based recipes alongside your RDFa,
Turtle, RDF/XML variants. As I stated earlier, GoodRelations is
basically what keeps the RDFa promises alive amongst these search engine
vendors. In addition, as I stated in an earlier post, the beauty of
GoodRelations isn't beholden to any data representation syntax, this is
about a sound conceptual model for vendors, their offers, and associated
products & services, above all else.
Kingsley
Best
Martin
On Jun 6, 2011, at 7:27 PM, Daniel Schwabe wrote:
Right, I thought as much. Which makes the point of schema.rdf.org vocabulary
support by the parsers even more critical to encourage its adoption...
D
On Jun 6, 2011, at 14:19 - 06/06/11, Patrick Logan wrote:
Google has advised against "mixing markup" because it "confuses their
parsers". I have not seen similar advice from the other two vendors.
(Which strikes me as odd, but nevertheless...)
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Daniel Schwabe<[email protected]> wrote:
Martin,
I can see the point with Good Relations - they acknowledge they will continue
supporting RDFa *with the vocabularies they already support*.
My question then was about RDFa support for *schema.rdf.org* vocabulary.
Also, Gio's question is applicable - can one have page markups with both RDFa
and schema.org?
Cheers
D
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