Re: Proposal to resolve ISSUE-1

Thanks Gregg for listing it out, that makes it really clear what to comment
on.

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:58 AM, Gregg Kellogg <gregg@kellogg-assoc.com>wrote:

1) A Microdata processor uses a registry (with undefined format and update
> procedure for now) to control the behavior of property URI generation.
>

+1
A registry is necessary.



>
> 2) A Microdata processor uses a registry (with undefined format and update
> procedure for now) to control the serialization of multi-valued properties.
>

0
I really dislike the idea of having to work with RDF lists because of the
complexity they introduce to querying, but I know it's important for some
use cases.



> 3) One property URI generation strategy is _vocabulary_, which defines a
> common URI to use for creating URIs for items with an @itemtype which
> begins with the vocabulary URI
>    e.g., @itemtype=http://schema.org/Person, @itemprop=name =>
> http://schema.org/name.
>    Also @itemtype=http://schema.org/Person/Deceased, @itempropt=name =>
> http://schema.org/name


 +1



> 4) One property URI generation strategy is _type_, which defines creates
> property URIs by appending a the property name to the itemtype URI
> separated by a '#'
>    e.g. @itemtype=http://microformats.org/hcard, @itemprop=name =>
> http://microformats.org/hcard#name


-1
I don't think that this should use a hash by default. The registry should
specify the base URI pattern to use, whether slash or hash (or potentially
something else).



> 5) On property URI generation strategy is _base_, which creates a property
> URI by using the portion of the itemtype URI up to and including the final
> '#' or '/'
>    e.g., @itemtype=http://schema.org/Person, @itemprop=name =>
> http://schema.org/name.
>    Also @itemtype=http://schema.org/Person/Deceased, @itempropt=name =>
> http://schema.org/Person/name


0/+1
I'm confused on <base> because of the example. I don't think there is any
situation where http://schema.org/Person/name would be a valid property
name. This isn't the proper way to extend schema.org according to their
extension mechanism. It should be something like
http://schema.org/name<http://schema.org/Person/name>/deceased
if there is a property that extends the name property.

I believe we would need <base> for a lot of RDF vocabularies though.



> 6) The default URI generation strategy is _base_.
>

0
Maybe the default should be _vocabulary_. I think that a lot of new
vocabulary developers outside the RDF community will use Schema.org as
their model. I think we can depend on the RDF community to register their
vocabularies more than we can newbies, so perhaps the default should assume
if it isn't registered, it's a vocab by someone who doesn't follow RDF URI
conventions.


7) One multi-valued property serialization strategy is _unordered_, which
> creates triples for multiple values with a common subject and predicate.
>

0


8) One multi-valued property serialization strategy is _list_, which places
> all values in an RDF Collection (rdf:List) as the object of a triple.
>

0


9) There is no _contextual_ URI generation strategy, and the Microdata to
> RDF property generation is lossy with respect to JSON, in that properties
> of untyped sub-items will result in the same URI, rather than being
> distinct.
>

+1