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That’s not my point, the point is semantic markup is a dirty and hopeless way of communication between agents, they should have dedicated endpoints

• acdha 5y ago
  Again, my point was simply that that's the least important part of the problem. It's very easy to get structured data out of HTML, it's useful to scripts running in that page, and there's a real value to having the data you expect machines to use to be the same values which humans see to avoid potential discrepancies. The reason you can tell that it's not the format is that this hasn't changed as API-only services became commonplace. The problem preventing collaboration wasn't that people were putting structure in HTML but that businesses didn't see an advantage in doing so.
  • nsonha 5y ago
    > businesses didn't see an advantage in doing so. this is the problem, but it's magnified by the fact that you put responsibility in the hand of content makers and web developers, of course they are not interested in this. If you reframe this around making inteligent systems talk to eachother, separated from the web stuff, then the incentive is clearer to whoever has it, those who want to make themselves visible to mash-up services, aggregators, e-commerce, booking systems and what not