"finds dates, and other data types, heuristically" -- I'm sure Google would rather not, but that's life on the web.
Google also supports JSON-LD which is a W3 standard for semi-structured and linked data. JSON-LD defines "in-band" syntax for dates, all XSD data types, and arbitrary data types (including but not exclusively those defined at http://schema.org/docs/full.html ) On Saturday, January 18, 2014 12:00:09 PM UTC-8, Brian Craft wrote: > > Regarding Rich's talk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROor6_NGIWU), can > anyone explain the points he's trying to make about self-describing and > extensible data formats, with the JSON and google examples? > > He argues that google couldn't exist if the web depended on out-of-band > schemas. He gives as an example of such a schema a JSON encoding where an > out-of-band agreement is made that field names with substring "date" refer > to string-encoded dates. > > However, this is exactly the sort of thing google does. It finds dates, > and other data types, heuristically, and not through the formats of the web > being self-describing or extensible. > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
