Re: Google starts supporting RDFa -- 'rich snippets'

On May 13, 2009, at 1:48 AM, Matthias Samwald wrote:

> Quite preliminary, but still noteworthy.

Indeed, especially as Guha is behind it. Full circle for RDF, I guess.

Pat Hayes

> See http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/05/introducing-rich-snippets.html
>
> They are also searching for new  vocabularies and data sources that  
> they can potentially support, I guess they will soon support the  
> popular vocabularies (FOAF, SIOC etc.) that are also supported by  
> Yahoo Search Monkey [1]. Maybe we (the HCLS IG) could come up with a  
> biomedical demo scenario based on RDFa and propose that to Google?
>
> [1] http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/smguide/profile_vocab.html
>
> Cheers,
> Matthias Samwald
>
> DERI Galway, Ireland
> http://deri.ie/
>
> Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research, Austria
> http://kli.ac.at/
>

------------------------------------------------------------
IHMC                                     (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973
40 South Alcaniz St.           (850)202 4416   office
Pensacola                            (850)202 4440   fax
FL 32502                              (850)291 0667   mobile
phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us       http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes