Microdata > 2017-08-01

[aphillips]

https://w3c.github.com/microdata/

The microdata spec is now a First Public Working Draft [1] - although
the technology has been around the whole decade, and is widely
deployed for search engines... so we expect it to be fairly stable in
terms of technology, fixing it to reflect reality rather than
re-designing it, where possible. It is very similar to RDFa Lite -
there are some attributes you can add to HTML to make data more
unambiguously machine-parseable. But it uses a slightly different
mechanism - at its base is not a formal RDF model, but a more limited "graph" of name/value pairs, with some ability for a value to be a subgraph.

I added a basic Internationalisation and Localisation section [2] in
the editor's draft, based on what came to the top of my head.

Could you please schedule a review of the spec, some time before August?
Danbri or I can probably attend the next meeting to help talk people
through it.

[1] https://w3.org/TR/microdata

[2] https://w3c.github.com/microdata/#i18n-considerations

cheers

chaals

[chaals]

Hi,

There is one known outstanding issue: w3c/microdata/issues/21 - It seems that we will close this by identifying the primary language of the content, but suggest that for more serious internationalisation requirements authors use RDFa (or JSON-LD) instead, both of which we believe have a reasonable internationalisation architecture, whereas microdata is something of a quick and dirty hack for people who don't need the real expressivity of those two but want to do the same sort of thing of marking semantically structured information in their HTML content.

We would like to get this review completed by the miuddle of July if at all possible.

[danbri]

@r12a et al., FYI we have closed the issue on our side