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Our Metadata Overlords and That Microdata Thingy
Eric Hellman, Go To Hellman, June 9, 2011.

files/images/board.jpg, size: 11986 bytes, type: image/jpeg Eric Hellman is a bit sceptical of the new initiative. "On June 2, our Metadata Overlords spoke. They told us that they'll only listen when we tell them things using a specialized vocabulary they've now given us at the schema.org website. Although we can still use our stone tablets if that's what we're using now, we're expected to migrate to a new Microdata Thingy, assuming that we really want them to pay attention to our website metadata supplications." Well, yeah, it's a bit high-handed. On the other hand, we've been needing embedded metadata forever now. Microformats didn't catch on, RDFa had a niche following - maybe this will turn the tables. If this gives us a widespread implementation of an open graph, then there is plenty of goodness there. On the other hand, do read the notes below the video. (Hits Today: 0 Total: 857) [Direct Link] [Tags: HTML5, Schemas, Resource Description Framework, Video, Semantic Web, Google, Metadata]

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