Re: Mapping Microformats to RDFa

Great to hear about this. A translation of the "canonical" microformat
examples (e.g. the ones at http://microformats.org/) into RDFa should be
some related low-hanging fruit and would make certain aspects of RDFa
advocacy easier.

Bob

On Fri, October 12, 2007 6:05 am, Benjamin Nowack wrote:
>
>
> Hi Manu,
>
> I took a SWEO action item this week to document possible
> mappings from microformats to RDF. I won't do the whole
> set, though, just the "core" 10-15 ones. I don't think
> there is going to be a single per-MF mapping (e.g. there
> are various competing vcard rdf vocabs, I personally map
> hcards to FOAF where possible, then there are two rdf/ical
> specs, multiple tagging vocabs, at least two resume ones,
> etc.), but it's clearly good to create a list of *possible*
> mappings, so that the GRDDL community has something to build
> their XSLTs on. I'll add a link to [1] when I'm done.
>
> Benji
>
> [1] http://esw.w3.org/topic/CustomRdfDialects
>
> --
> Benjamin Nowack
> http://bnode.org/
>
>
> On 12.10.2007 00:12:23, Manu Sporny wrote:
>>
>>We've started an initiative to map all of the current Microformats to
>>RDFa vocabularies.
>>
>>The goal is to identify deficiencies in RDFa vocabularies and create a
>>plan to fill those gaps in the next 6 months.
>>
>>This builds upon the work that Danny Ayers did in 2005 with his
>>MicroModels[1] approach to the semantic web. Please let me know if this
>>is duplicating work done elsewhere:
>>
>>http://wiki.digitalbazaar.com/en/mapping-ufs-to-rdfa
>>
>>-- manu
>>
>
>
>