- From: Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>
- Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:52:05 -0800
- To: Thomas Baker <baker@sub.uni-goettingen.de>
- CC: RDFa Task Force <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Hi Tom, Thanks for the pointer. Not being a typical poster to the DC mailing list, I'll offer my thoughts here, which you should feel free to forward. RDFa does not entrench the legacy namespace. "license" is an agreed-upon reserved word in XHTML, and we simply reuse the reserved words (e.g. next, prev, etc...) . The RDFa vocab page at http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/vocab/ defines that predicate. -Ben Thomas Baker wrote: > Some comments on RDFa from a Dublin Core mailing list. > > Tom > > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 10:14:36AM +1100, David Bromage wrote: >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >> Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 10:14:36 +1100 >> Sender: General DCMI discussion list <DC-GENERAL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> >> From: David Bromage <david.bromage@NAA.GOV.AU> >> Subject: Re: DC metadata in docs as part of HTML >> To: DC-GENERAL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK >> >> The RDFa primer is a good starting point but it entrenches the legacy >> namespace. It uses rel="license" in section 2.1 then goes on to use >> dc:title and dc:creator in 2.2. Since the purpose is to help machines >> understand the web, it would be more meaningful to use >> rel="dcterms:license". >> >> W3C should be encouraged to use the range of more precise descriptions >> dcterms allows. >> >> Regards >> David >> >> David Bromage >> Policy and Strategic Projects >> Government Information Management Branch >> >> National Archives of Australia >> PO Box 7425 >> Canberra Business Centre ACT 2610 >> >> T (02) 6212 3731 F (02) 6212 3989 M 0418 394 778 >> david.bromage@naa.gov.au >> www.naa.gov.au >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: General DCMI discussion list [mailto:DC-GENERAL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On >> Behalf Of Liddy Nevile >> Sent: Sunday, 4 January 2009 9:06 AM >> To: DC-GENERAL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK >> Subject: DC metadata in docs as part of HTML >> >> First - Happy and Safe New Year to everyone. >> >> I am wondering how many people have been using RDF/A to put their >> metadata into the docs so that instead of just identifying something as >> a heading, for example, it can be identified as the title (or >> dc:title) and another bit of text as the author's name (dc:creator) and >> affiliation and a particular link as a reference to the source >> documents, etc? >> >> This is so much smarter than trying to bung stuff into a meta tag, it >> seems to me - see http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/ >> >> Problem, as I see it, is that this is a technique for those using XHTML >> and most people are using HTML, and it is not part of valid HTML. I am >> wondering if there is interest in this problem - if people want to use >> RDF/A, surely it should be included in the new versions of HTML? (HTML 5 >> is being developed right now.) >> >> I would like it a lot because it would also make it much easier for >> people to do really significant and helpful things about accessibility, >> tagging content for what it offers and helping people find alternatives >> to content components that they cannot use... >> >> Liddy >
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