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Re: Parsing RDF from namespace documents - anyone reading RDF from inside XHTML? (foaf ns)

From: Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:28:40 -0700
Message-ID: <4A29C648.20804@adida.net>
To: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
CC: foaf-dev Friend of a <foaf-dev@lists.foaf-project.org>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Dan Brickley wrote:
> Would any object if future versions of the FOAF spec didn't embed 
> RDF/XML in the XHTML? The RDF (ie. RDFS/OWL) will still be accessible 
> via content negotiation and a link to index.rdf as above. In addition we 
> can add some RDFa, covering some (and perhaps eventually all) of the RDF 
> statements from the schema. Libby's begun working on the latter piece.

It will come as a shock to no one that I think this is a good idea :)

In general, I like RDFS using RDFa, because it provides a nice human FYN 
story. We do this at CC: http://creativecommons.org/ns

That's a human-readable spec, which is nice for folks who don't know the 
details of RDF up front. Yes I know it can be done via redirects, but I 
think this approach is a bit clearer.

-Ben
Received on Saturday, 6 June 2009 01:29:22 GMT

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