Bob DuCharme on RDFa (was: Re: RDFa in 10sec)

In case you have more time to explain, try this: :)

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/02/14/introducing-rdfa.html

-Elias

Hausenblas, Michael wrote:
> After the hot and tekky class/role debate, something 
> to cool down:
>  
> How would you explain RDFa to someone that is not
> into it, in 10sec?
>  
> I guess my take to give a not-so-tekky answer would be:
>  
> Imagine a magic ink on a paper. With a special kind
> of glasses you can actually see the things written
> on the paper with the magic ink.
>  
> HTML is the paper and RDFa is both the magic ink and
> the special kind of glasses.
>  
> Any other try?
>  
> Cheers,
>        Michael
>  
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