Re: HTML in RDF

> Stephen Rhoads writes:
>  > The idea would be to build an OWL ontology to describe the elements and layout of HTML documents so that the images, text and other elements could be "annotated" (for lack of a more profound word) directly.
 
I suppose that the issue is with `external' annotations by Xpointer
that may break if the document structure changes. Direct annotations
in this case are appealing.

Phil Dawes wrote:
> I might be missing something, but this sounds like a bad idea to
> me. XML/HTML is good for documents because of its implicit
> ordering. RDF doesnt have this, and so will require a lots of explicit
> information to describe the order.

Then having `direct' annotations is possible maybe by having the
(X)HTML in RDF stored in a (XML) literal; where the annotation targets
may be identified by regular node ids (somehow like in Doug
Engelbart's Purple Numbers granular addressability style), to elude
identification by document structure.

Cheers,
-- 
Laurian Gridinoc
Chief Developer
GRAPEFRUIT DESIGN
www.gd.ro

Received on Friday, 6 August 2004 08:33:03 UTC