- From: William Van Woensel <William.Van.Woensel@Dal.Ca>
- Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 12:51:55 +0000
- To: Ruben Verborgh <ruben.verborgh@ugent.be>, Martynas Jusevičius <martynas@graphity.org>
- CC: Kevin Ford <kefo@3windmills.com>, Linked Data community <public-lod@w3.org>
>> I don't see how one can avoid RDFa if we consider WYSIWYG content >> (HTML) editing with inline semantic annotations (RDF). > Just because we edit them that way, > doesn't mean we have to publish them that way. > Ruben Sure, but there are also separate advantages to having *embedded* structured data (i.e., embedded in human-readable content), as opposed to metadata that is individually available. (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). For general, non-trivial cases, and on pure HTML-CSS webpages, this is a notoriously hard problem to solve. But by annotating the page elements with semantics, this becomes a trivially simple issue (disregarding issues with ontology heterogeneity, etc.). William
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