- From: Steven Pemberton <Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 21:16:00 +0200
- To: "public-rdfa@w3.org" <public-rdfa@w3.org>
As Ben Adida reports: http://rdfa.info/2009/05/12/google-announces-support-for-rdfa/ "Google just announced support for RDFa[1], starting with product reviews. Here’s Google’s FAQ on adding RDFa to your pages[2]. This is a significant new direction for Google, where they will start looking at explicit data structure and provide enhanced search results accordingly. It’s fantastic to see them using RDFa for this task. It’s also fantastic to see them encouraging the use of a non-Google-branded vocabulary: open-vocabulary.org[3]. Generic, reusable vocabularies built by industry groups, that’s exactly what we were hoping for with RDFa. The side story here is that this was basically a Google-driven project from the start: they didn’t need the RDFa task force to create their vocabularies, to figure out how to mark up their pages, etc. Folks on the RDFa task force are finding out about this just now, as it happens. And we like it that way. RDFa is meant for communities of all sizes to mark up their pages, without centralized process overhead. Both Yahoo and Google’s RDFa launches were achieved without consultation with the RDFa community, and I consider that a success." [1] http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/05/google-announces-support-for-m.html [2] http://google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=146898 [3] http://rdfa.info/2009/05/12/google-announces-support-for-rdfa/open-vocabulary.org Steven
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