Re: Welcome

Hi everyone,

My name is Stéphane Corlosquet. I'm a Drupal developer and I've led the
integration of RDFa into Drupal 7 core during my Masters Degree at DERI
Galway. I also co-maintain the RDF Extensions and SPARQL modules for Drupal,
which provide ways to fetch Drupal data in various RDF syntaxes and querying
it via a SPARQL endpoint. I also contributed a chapter on Drupal and the
Semantic Web in the recently published Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 book
[2]. I participated in the schema.org workshop last week in Mountain View
where topics related to this TF were discussed. I'm most interested in the
multiple syntaxes aspect of this TF (point 2 and 3 of the deliverables).

I work at MIND Informatics / Mass. General Hospital, where we build online
communities of clinicians and researchers to discuss and cure neurological
disorders. We use Drupal and other semantic web technologies to build these
platforms. I'm also a member of the RDFa WG.

Steph.

[1]
http://openspring.net/blog/2011/05/01/background-research-work-leading-to-rdf-in-drupal-7-released-as-part-of-my-masters
[2] http://definitivedrupal.org/

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Welcome to the HTML data task force. May your stay be a pleasant one.
>
> This task force will only be running for the next couple of months, and we
> have some very clear outputs to produce, so we will need to get cracking.
> According to our mission statement [1] we're tasked to create:
>
>  1. a set of use cases for embedding data in HTML
>  2. documentation for publishers and consumers that will help them choose
> which syntax (microdata/RDFa/microformats) to use in each use case
>  3. documentation to help publishers and consumers mix syntaxes within
> their pages
>  4. a (sketch of a) generic mapping from microdata to RDF
>  5. a (sketch of a) generic mapping from RDFa to microdata JSON
>  6. a set of guidelines for vocabulary developers to help them create
> schemas that can be used across syntaxes
>
> Along the way, we may find that we encounter places where a change to
> either RDFa or microdata would make things smoother for users. In these
> cases, we will also need to produce bug reports and possibly change
> proposals for either HTML microdata [2], HTML+RDFa 1.1 [3] or RDFa 1.1 Core
> [4].
>
> I think a lot of the raw material for this is out there already in various
> places -- for example, Hixie collated a set of use cases when designing
> microdata; Tantek has put together a bunch of guidelines for creating
> microformat vocabularies that are designed to be general purpose; Gregg and
> people at DERI have worked on mappings from microdata to RDF. What I propose
> we do is try to collate this information, along with the results of out
> discussions, in the wiki [1] and summarise that into a more formal document
> (or set of documents) after a month or so. I've created some initial pages
> to structure that.
>
> As we're getting settled in over the next week or so, it would be great if
> everyone who joins could:
>
>  * introduce themselves
>  * raise any questions, issues or concerns about the task force
>  * say which products listed above they think should have priority
>  * indicate which products they are interested in contributing towards
> themselves
>  * add to the wiki any pointers to relevant existing materials they know of
>
> Just a final word. I am really pleased it has been possible to assemble
> people from a range of backgrounds for this taskforce. We all know the
> history around embedding data in HTML and that the different approaches have
> different philosophies. To be successful we will need to keep focussed on
> the goal of aiding both publishers and consumers who use these formats. As
> chair, my aim is to keep the TF firmly directed towards improving users'
> practical understanding of trade-offs between the different approaches, not
> indulge in philosophical debates, and I will appreciate your support in
> helping the TF to retain that focus.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeni
>
> [1]: http://www.w3.org/wiki/Html-data-tf
> [2]: http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/
> [3]: http://dev.w3.org/html5/rdfa/
> [4]: http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/drafts/#rdfa-core
> --
> Jeni Tennison
> http://www.jenitennison.com
>
>
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