Re: AW: fw: Google starts supporting RDFa -- 'rich snippets'

2009-05-15 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Frederick Giasson wrote: Hi Kingsley, don't know. In a O'Reilly about Google's RDFa support, Guha says that they draw and plan to draw from existing vocabularies. And we're not going to do this all by ourselves. As it is, we are drawing from several sources. We're drawing from microformats.

fw: Google starts supporting RDFa -- 'rich snippets'

2009-05-13 Thread Chris Bizer
Very nice. After Yahoo SearchMonkey has been around for a while, things are now also moving at Google. See: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/05/introducing-rich-snippet s.html http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/05/introducing-rich-snippets .html And Ivan's

Re: fw: Google starts supporting RDFa -- 'rich snippets'

2009-05-13 Thread Peter Ansell
Unlike Yahoo SearchMonkey, Google has chosen to mock up their own ontologies instead of recognising existing vocabularies. Cheers, Peter 2009/5/13 Chris Bizer ch...@bizer.de: Very nice.  After Yahoo SearchMonkey has been around for a while, things are now also moving at Google. See:

Re: AW: fw: Google starts supporting RDFa -- 'rich snippets'

2009-05-13 Thread Frederick Giasson
Hi Chris, don't know. In a O'Reilly about Google's RDFa support, Guha says that they draw and plan to draw from existing vocabularies. And we're not going to do this all by ourselves. As it is, we are drawing from several sources. We're drawing from microformats. We're drawing from vCard.

Re: fw: Google starts supporting RDFa -- 'rich snippets'

2009-05-13 Thread Peter Ansell
Auftrag von Peter Ansell Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. Mai 2009 13:35 An: Chris Bizer Cc: public-lod@w3.org Betreff: Re: fw: Google starts supporting RDFa -- 'rich snippets' Unlike Yahoo SearchMonkey, Google has chosen to mock up their own ontologies instead of recognising existing vocabularies

Re: fw: Google starts supporting RDFa -- 'rich snippets'

2009-05-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
It is hard to accept their goals so far since they made up a new vocabulary for RDFa instead of matching the FOAF support that SearchMonkey gives, and the URI's they provide for don't contain valid top level domain names when the RDFa properties are joined with the prefixes so it looks a

Re: AW: fw: Google starts supporting RDFa -- 'rich snippets'

2009-05-13 Thread Kingsley Idehen
supporting RDFa -- 'rich snippets' Unlike Yahoo SearchMonkey, Google has chosen to mock up their own ontologies instead of recognising existing vocabularies. Cheers, Peter 2009/5/13 Chris Bizer ch...@bizer.de: Very nice. After Yahoo SearchMonkey has been around for a while, things

Re: fw: Google starts supporting RDFa -- 'rich snippets'

2009-05-13 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Daniel O'Connor wrote: It is hard to accept their goals so far since they made up a new vocabulary for RDFa instead of matching the FOAF support that SearchMonkey gives, and the URI's they provide for don't contain valid top level domain names when the RDFa properties are

Re: fw: Google starts supporting RDFa -- 'rich snippets'

2009-05-13 Thread Dan Brickley
On 13/5/09 15:23, Kingsley Idehen wrote: I desperately hope that you can see the Google is providing a huge opportunity to showcase Linked Data meme value. Again, so what -- if they don't use existing vocabularies? What matters is that they are using RDFa to produce structured data, and that is

Re: AW: fw: Google starts supporting RDFa -- 'rich snippets'

2009-05-13 Thread Frederick Giasson
Hi Kingsley, don't know. In a O'Reilly about Google's RDFa support, Guha says that they draw and plan to draw from existing vocabularies. And we're not going to do this all by ourselves. As it is, we are drawing from several sources. We're drawing from microformats. We're drawing from

Re: fw: Google starts supporting RDFa -- 'rich snippets'

2009-05-13 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Dan Brickley wrote: On 13/5/09 15:23, Kingsley Idehen wrote: I desperately hope that you can see the Google is providing a huge opportunity to showcase Linked Data meme value. Again, so what -- if they don't use existing vocabularies? What matters is that they are using RDFa to produce

Re: fw: Google starts supporting RDFa -- 'rich snippets'

2009-05-13 Thread Bernard Vatant
Hi all Agreed with Dan and all others saying we have to welcome Google's move. But nevertheless, I take the risk to include myself in the 1000 defined below ... :-) I suppose pages such as [1] with indications for webmasters are likely to be more read by webmasters than RDFa specs themselves

Re: fw: Google starts supporting RDFa -- 'rich snippets'

2009-05-13 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Bernard Vatant wrote: Hi all Agreed with Dan and all others saying we have to welcome Google's move. But nevertheless, I take the risk to include myself in the 1000 defined below ... :-) I suppose pages such as [1] with indications for webmasters are likely to be more read by webmasters than