Structured Data Markup Was Inevitable, But Is It An Admission Of Failure?

The movement toward structured data markup (i.e., increasing use of standards like Open Graph, Schema.org, RDFa, etc.) has bothered me for awhile, but I could not exactly put my finger on the issues. A few weeks ago at SMX East, there were some great presentations on these topics, and I finally realized that I have many major reservations about the proliferation and use of these standards, on many levels (mostly from a publisher perspective; for end-users they are generally a very positive development). What Are These Standards? They sound complicated, but in layman’s terms, I would say: think of them as being similar to additional meta-tags on a page, similar to a meta-description or meta-keywords, but often in XML format, which convey certain structured information about various objects. Like meta-tags, these are intended to be machine-readable, but not necessarily prese...

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@toniCarr » 20 Nov '12, 4pm
Interesting Article -the comments are even better. Structured Data Markup Was Inevitable, But Is It An Admission... [link]
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Microformats Are Anti-Human via @sengineland [link] #rdfa #schema #og
@kyield » 20 Nov '12, 4pm
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@weblawlib » 12 Nov '12, 4pm
Is structured data markup an "admission of failure?" [link] // I think: No. or Not necessarily.
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Structured Data Markup Was Inevitable, But Is It An Admission Of Failure? [link] -a critical view on semantic web technologies
@tedives » 05 Nov '12, 5pm
Getting a lot of interesting comments on the Structured Data Markup polemic I wrote: [link] @seland
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RT @aaranged: Structured Data Markup Was Inevitable, But Is It An Admission Of Failure? [link] @tedives I say no: [link]
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Structured Data Markup Was Inevitable, But Is It An Admission Of Failure? [link] @tedives I say no: [link]
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RT @nicolastorzec: Somewhat provocative thoughts on Structured Data Markup, from the Publisher and Search standpoints [link]
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Somewhat provocative thoughts on Structured Data Markup, from the Publisher and Search standpoints [link]
@Thomas_Tregner » 03 Nov '12, 1pm
Many greats points here. But there is value in smarter search and human directed structure. [link]
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