Re: Role of RDFa in 2016

> (client-side) Web augmentation relies on gleaning the meaning of page elements, in order to automatically enhancing the webpage with all sorts of features (some simple examples: making phone numbers on the page "callable" via Skype; looking for a listed product on other web shops).

True, but this might still be done with a separate representation;
the phone number etc. will all be recognizable
(but it becomes indeed more/unnecessarily difficult).

> this becomes a trivially simple issue (disregarding issues with ontology heterogeneity, etc.).

Perhaps not "trivially", because you have to modify a page's UI.
Maybe it already had an action on the phone number.

I had a great extensions some years back
that would extract microdata from pages and make it usable
(we're not seeing enough of that anymore).
However, the UI was separate,
i.e., a menu with actions on the items on the page.

Best,

Ruben

Received on Tuesday, 4 October 2016 12:57:26 UTC