Rdfa Puns

Would generating a JSON-ld document from a page’s Microdata/RDFa attributes be useful?

As an assignment for my studies, I am supposed to add semantic data to a few pages from https://www.whisky.com/whisky-database

working with RDFa is completely new to me, so I might be completely off, but here is what i got so far: https://imgur.com/TeIUbox For some reason the <a>-tag turns up as a node of it's own. The tree doesn't look right to me, i feel the branches should look like this: https://imgur.com/3TStHyl here i simply removed the <a>-tag completely from the html-document.

I am using schema.org's "Product" vocabulary.

how come the <a>-tag shows up as a node, when other nested tags do not?

As mentioned, I might be completely wrong in my assumption that all information about the product has to be in one branch (item 1).

Further to the earlier post pointing to this article -http://www.technologyreview.com/news/509921/plan-would-put-a-bank-in-every-browser/ - Manu Sporny indicates that Bitcoin is the first alternative currency that they intend to support in response to a comment I made. Not sure how they intend to make instant transactions work though.

msporny says:

"The PaySwarm design supports many different types of currencies. Bitcoin is included in those alternative currencies:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/2011Dec/0017.html

We hope to add support for Bitcoin soon. One of the nice things about using PaySwarm, instead of the core Bitcoin protocol, is that the transaction is immediate. Instead of needing to wait for the transaction to be reflected in the Bitcoin blockchain, if you use PaySwarm, the Bitcoins are transferred instantly. This allows you to use Bitcoin just like you would a credit card.

PaySwarm also has a number of higher-level protocols, like being able to describe products for sale on the Web:

http://payswarm.com/specs/source/web-commerce/

or crowdfunding particular projects via PaySwarm:

http://payswarm.com/specs/source/payment-intents/

The same things can be built on top of Bitcoin, but someone would need to take that work on. We've already completed the work on the product description and sale aspect. Crowdfunding is next. Adding Bitcoin into the system would be fairly trivial (but we're very focused on doing a commercial release right now). We hope to get the alternative currency support into the commercial release of PaySwarm very soon. Bitcoin is going to be the first currency that we support."

Examples like this make it seem so, but I can't find any official statement.

Which do you use?

I want to do semantic HTML, and HTML5 has the dandy "itemprop" and family. Schema.org looks nice, but there are seemingly valid complaints of "it's not an open standard" and "it leads to vocabulary lock-in".

I like microformats, but having itemprop, it seems like a waste to be using class to specify semantic info (as per microformats). So, I tried using microformats with itemprop... but a problem showed up quickly: An item must have a single itemtype, so I can't convert my blog's template to microformats-on-microdata: my blog posts are marked up as hAtom and xFolk... but now that's not allowed.

What are your thoughts?

Hi.

(first sorry for my english, that's not my native language)

I have to do a work for my school about the semantic web, especially the structured data using the Schema.org ontology.

I created a document by integrating the Schema.org metadata on a HTML code by using RDFa. The document is about a university teacher (I use the schema "Person" of Schema.org) and I can't find a corresponding property to the projects of a teacher but I found the property "currentProject" on the FOAF ontology that would be perfect for this. So I was wonderring how could be possible to add this FOAF property with all others Schema.org properties on the same HTML document. I know that it is possible with RDFa.

Here is a simplified example of the code: <div vocab="http://schema.org/" typeof="Person"> <h2 property="name">Example</h2> <p property="jobTitle">Teacher</p> <p property="email">example@hevs.ch</p> <p property="currentProject">Project Example<p> </div>

So I have to specifie that the currentProject property comes from the FOAF ontology but I don't know how to do it. Some help would be great.

Thank you

I am attempting to get my programers to use microdata for our new sites now that Google is letting it help search results, but the coders say that RDFa is a better alternative and sent me this link. What do you guys think?