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 More options Jun 22 2011, 1:01 pm
From: Guha <g...@google.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:01:48 -0700
Local: Wed, Jun 22 2011 1:01 pm
Subject: Re: Does schema.org support global identifiers for items?

We strongly encourage the use of itemids.

guha

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Martin Hepp <mfh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why should that matter? Even if schema.org is driven by three sponsors,
> there will be many more clients consuming such data for a multitude of
> purposes.
> It is actually already been crawled and considered by some RDF
> repositories.

> So as Kingsley said - even if Google, Yahoo, and Bing don't need itemid,
> they MUST NOT discourage anybody from using itemid (if properly). Everything
> else would be a breach of the Microdata spec.

> Best
> Martin

> On Jun 22, 2011, at 12:44 PM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:

> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:26, Martin Hepp <mfh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Please, do not disallow global identifiers for items!
> >> This is key for helping search engines to connect dots distributed
> across large e-commerce shop sites.

> > Only if the sponsors actually do something with it, hence the
> > question. If they do something with it, then I hope it's going to be
> > documented.

> > --
> > Philip Jägenstedt

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> martin hepp
> e-business & web science research group
> universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen

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