Google+Yahoo+Bing = MicroData-by-committee

A google search for 'poem' or 'novel' at schema.org turns up nada.

Painting is there; sculpture is there; book is there; article is there.  Poem is not.

But there is a provision for keywords as text. So law, speech, proof, precedent are all relegated to being keywords?  As is that key term: peer-reviewed? We have advanced so far beyond Solon, Cicero, Priestley and Edmund Burke. A dialog of Plato, say, The Sophist, would now be tagged ... oh yes, I saw the BBC version so that is under TVSeries. Forget Sophocles.  Drama and play are banished?

But Movie and TVEpisode and Recipe are at level 3.  GovernmentOffice falls under LocalBusiness ? {a sibling of the latter is GovernmentOrganization.]  And how Brits are going to grate their teeth on that American 'z'. GovtOrg was not an option?

Oddly missing is that key term: 'porn'.  And 'art' is replaced by 'CreativeWork' so that kitsch can rub shoulders with Kandinsky, YouTube with Andrei Tarkovsky.  The final leveling is a couch-potato hierarchy in which poetry is finally banished so that any and all can be labelled "poetic"?

Quantity is there; evaluation is not: tripe, drivel, true-but-trivial, disproven, canard, putative, alleged, hypothetical, unproven, disputed, well-confirmed, assumption, presupposition, axiom, non sequitur, proof, fallacy, tautology, insightful, perspicuous, prolix, pithy, ludicrous, ironic, unscientific, elegant, consistent, coherent ... pre-Darwinian, pre-DNA, pre-Newtonian, pre-Galilean, pre-Hubble, biblical, dogma, credo, cant.

Not to be alarmed: there is an extension mechanism.  But surely this first pass at tagging for the triumvirate is a comment on the geeks of America and their managers.

Bavarian Gentians

There is now a web page with simple Curl markup of D.H. Lawrence's Bavarian Gentians at poets.aule-browser.com which is built from a text-to-Curl tool.

In this case the markup uses the default {paragraph } text-procedure and the markup has no semantics particular to an English poem from the twentieth century.  Each paragraph is a Visual object and can be assigned a name property.

The text of the poem is not selectable in this version of the page.  In a study version the word "Dys" would be clickable as might several others.  Initially the page might be up 3 minutes before any links or button appear, especially if displayed in a teaching browser for students with no BACK button.

The button for the image and the links were added manually.