Re: Primer update

Tom,

to be very honest with you, I am not convinced about that change. Yes, it makes the text more crisp, and it would certainly be more appropriate for a specification, but this is a primer which can live with a different style (b.t.w., I am not defending my own text here, I took this over from Mark and Ben...).

Any other opinions? 

Ivan

On Apr 6, 2011, at 14:35 , Tom Adamich wrote:

> Hi, Ivan:
> 
> ...Hope you're feeling better.  My only recommendation is to restructure
> your introduction using bullet points for some of the excellent content you
> have:
> 
> Example:
> 
> RDFa enables machine readable "tags" to be included with electronic or "born
> digital' materials (text, images, video, etc.) that are marked up using a
> variety of webpage markup languages.  These "tags" may include such
> information as:
> 
> 1.	 who created a particular material
> 2.	 important descriptive and/or technical information pertaining to
> the material
> 3.	 intellectual property rights associated with the material's use
> 4.	 information on finding related materials which may be of interest
> and/or use (ex. Links to the creator's social networking page, where other
> examples of her/his work might be accessible.)
> 
> Instead of: 
> 
> What if the browser, or any machine consumer such as a Web crawler, received
> information on the meaning of a web page's visual elements? A dinner party
> announced on a blog could be easily copied to the user's calendar, an
> author's complete contact information to the user's address book. Users
> could automatically recall previously browsed articles according to
> categorization labels (i.e., tags). A photo copied and pasted from a web
> site to a school report would carry with it a link back to the photographer,
> giving her proper credit. A link shared by a user to his social network
> contacts would automatically carry additional data pulled from the original
> web page: a thumbnail, an author, and a specific title. When web data meant
> for humans is augmented with hints meant for computer programs, these
> programs become significantly more helpful, because they begin to understand
> the data's structure. 
> 
> RDFa allows HTML authors to do just that. Using a few simple HTML
> attributes, authors can mark up human-readable data with machine-readable
> indicators for browsers and other programs to interpret. A web page can
> include markup for items as simple as the title of an article, or as complex
> as a user's complete social network. 
> 
> I think the examples are very clear and concise.  ...Hope this helps and
> doesn't create too much of an editing issue.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> Tom Adamich, MLS
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-rdfa-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-rdfa-wg-request@w3.org]
> On Behalf Of Ivan Herman
> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 5:19 AM
> To: W3C RDFWA WG
> Subject: Primer update
> 
> Unfortunately, I got sick (probably brought bac a travellers' bug from
> India...) so I forgot to send out this mail... I have made yet another
> update of the RDFa Primer:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/sources/rdfa-primer/
> 
> taking over the examples that were in the previous version of the RDFa API
> (and have slightly modified them here and there).
> 
> Again, I would like to get this published as a FPWD soon, to put a stake in
> the ground (we are very late with that one), which requires that some of you
> have a look at the text to see if it is good enough...
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ivan
> 
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