Re: RDFa Snipping Tool

Thanks for the notice David. Let me know when/how I can support this 
effort ...

Cheers,
	Michael

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Dr. Michael Hausenblas
DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute
National University of Ireland, Lower Dangan,
Galway, Ireland
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David Gratton wrote:
> Doh! Complete and utter oversight. In our haste to launch we simply did not think of it.
> I should note that we had originally done everything as a Microformat, but pulled it out almost last minute after we made the decision to go with RDFa, after some encouragement and insight from Ben, Nathan and Mike. So, we are very appreciative of the help and keen to see this move forward.
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> Thanks for the kudos on http://sni.ps and would be keen to see how we can improve it. We actually made a WP plugin with the API, but WP strips the RDFa upon publishing. :( 
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> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org> wrote:
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> 	David,
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> 	Great to see this - good work! Just had a look at the tutorials and then skimmed the developer's site [1] where I noticed that RDFa is not mentioned anywhere ... on purpose? ;)
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> 	Cheers,
> 	       Michael
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> 	[1] http://developers.sni.ps/index.php/Main_Page
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> 	Dr. Michael Hausenblas
> 	DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute
> 	National University of Ireland, Lower Dangan,
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> 	David Gratton 2 wrote:
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> 		This is my first post to this list, so I hope I'm not breaking any protocols. Apologies in advance.
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> 		Mike Linksayer thought it would be worthwhile for me to send this to the list. We recently launched a content capture and attribution service called SNI.PS (http://sni.ps).  The tool is pretty simple, it captures text, video (YouTube and QuickTime),  images, and flash objects and then provides embed
> 		code  to reuse the content. The embed code is RDFa that maintains attribution to the original source AND subsequently copied sources. For example if, I copied it from you and some one copied it from me. Both you as "origin" and me as "copied" are retained.
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> 		If you use a rel-license we capture that and bring that along with the embed code.
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> 		We already noticed that Wordpress does not support RDFa so a lot of the data is stripped out upon publishing. :(
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> 		There is a start of an API. SNI.PS is free to use and does not require users to log in to use the product. We hope it is useful. If you have ideas on how to make it more useful, we are eager to improve it.
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> 		Kind regards,
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> 		David Gratton
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