- From: <ben@hedrington.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:01:31 -0500 (CDT)
- To: "Ben Adida" <ben@adida.net>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
This would be a huge win for the future of HTML to extend and enrich what our client browsers can do with our markup. +1 -Ben Hedrington On Tue, April 17, 2007 9:45 am, Ben Adida wrote: > > > Dear Semantic Web and HTML communities, > > > We invite you to read and send any feedback on the latest RDFa Use Cases > and Primer working drafts, linked below. > > RDFa is a syntax for embedding RDF triples in HTML (currently XHTML > only, though hopefully HTML, too), with a few important principles: > > 1) All the goodness of RDF (extensibility, modularity, granularity of > reuse, etc...) > > 2) DRY: what is rendered in HTML can be reused to form the RDF triples > > > 3) In-Context, aka Copy-and-Paste: a chunk of HTML should be fully > self-contained with respect to the structure it expresses. This is > particularly useful for web widgets, user agents that enable contextual > "right-click for more information," etc. > > > For those familiar with microformats, RDFa and microformats have certain > common goals. The core difference is that RDFa is mainly concerned with > letting anyone create, use, and extend vocabularies thanks to a single > unifying syntax. We are also working to integrate microformats into the > RDFa toolset using GRDDL [1]. > > > The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has recently published working > drafts of the RDFa Use Cases and Primer: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-scenarios/ > http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/ > > > We invite you to send comments on these drafts to our mailing list: > > > public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org > > The detailed RDFa Syntax is in the works, and should be available in > working draft form in June. > > Thanks! > > > -Ben Adida > ben@adida.net / ben@creativecommons.org > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/grddl/ > > >
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