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Tom on uF authoring

mhausenblas — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:16:46 +0100

Tom Heath has written on uF authoring. Really good points, there ;)

GRDDL is a Recommendation!

mhausenblas — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:43:19 +0200

Congrats to Dan Connolly and the GRDDL WG. Today the Semantic Web Activity News announced the GRDDL Recommendation status; see also:

GRDDL TR (http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-grddl-20070911/)
GRDDL Test Cases (http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-grddl-tests-20070911/)
GRDDL service (http://www.w3.org/2007/08/grddl/)

Microformats aren't an answer to the Sem...

mhausenblas — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:30:57 +0200

I can see many valid things in Keith's post about uF and the Semantic Web (like 'Things have URIs'), but I like most his conclusion:

So in other words, Microformats are not, in themselves, building, or contributing to, the semantic web. They can be made to join the semantic web, but this requires extra effort on the part of individual authors – it does not come ‘for free’ when ‘doing microformats’.

RDFa news

mhausenblas — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:51:20 +0100

Mark Birbek explains how to use RDFa in XHTML 1 - STOP - The RDFa specification (incl. Primer, Syntax, Use Cases, and Test Suite) is on its way - STOP - Bob DuCharme has a nice article that introduces RDFa step by step - STOP - Benjamin Nowack wrote a form-based, semi-automatic comparison matrix for RDFa, eRDF and microformats.

Welcome to the Semantic Web, flickr.com!

mhausenblas — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:55:00 +0100

Now, this is really good news: Flickr is rolling out a new feature called machine tags that allows users to be more precise in how they tag, and how they search, their photos.

Machine tags are tags that use a special syntax to define extra information about a tag; they have a namespace, a predicate and a value. The namespace defines a class or a facet that a tag belongs to ('geo', 'flickr', etc.), and the predicate is the name of the property for a namespace ('latitude', 'user', etc).

RDF in HTML and Microformats

mhausenblas — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:57:06 +0100

When Seth states that "[...] Microformats have succeeded here, allowing me to very easily embed metadata into XHTML.", I'd like to reply: You can virtually embed RDF into (X)HTML using RDFa; just as easy as that + you get: multiple Vocs in one place via namespaces, one-tool-for-all-formats, etc.

Want to try out? Go have a look at RDFa bookmarklets.