Re: Semantic Technology and Blogs

On 9/23/07, Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...a key part being that HTML itself already supports typed links
> using the rel and rev attributes. When used with a Meta data profile
> reference [1], the document can be interpreted as explicit data
> following the mechanisms found in the shiny new GRDDL Recommendation
> [2].  As with RDFa, it effectively allows HTML to be used as Yet
> Another RDF serialization.
>

Whoops. I wrote a reply but sent it just to Adam and not the list.
Silly me. Silly list behaviour. Something like that.

My original email follows.

On 9/23/07, Adam Sobieski <adamsobieski@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Some ideas occurred to me for an in-demand project that can help get SW tech
> more towards end users.  It has to do with link varieties and blogs.
>
> Two link varieties that would certainly be useful in the blogosphere are:
>
> http://hypothetical.org/blognet/2007/10/type#agree
> http://hypothetical.org/blognet/2007/10/type#disagree
>
> With the document resembling:
>
> a href="http://yourblog.com/someentry.html"
> blognet:type="http://hypothetical.org/blognet/2007/10/type#agree"
>

Have you seen Vote-Links?
http://microformats.org/wiki/vote-links

I've produced a GRDDL transformation for mapping them to a VoteLink class:
http://tommorris.org/profiles/votelinks

There's an OWL file available too at:
http://rdf.opiumfield.com/vote/
(I slapped it together in Protege, but I'm not an OWL expert so it may
not be particularly good. Might put up some OWLDoc soon.)

Yours,

-- 
Tom Morris
http://tommorris.org/

Received on Sunday, 23 September 2007 20:53:51 UTC