Re: microdata use cases and Getting data out of poorly written Web pages

On May 11, 2009, at 2:05 AM, Ian Hickson wrote:

> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>>
>> I think a fruitful exercise to apply to this proposal would be to
>> determine wether microdata markup following this proposal could  
>> readily
>> be extracted as RDF. RDF already has many concrete syntaxes; I gather
>> that what RDF experts consider important is the underlying data  
>> model.
>> Can data marked up as Ian suggests be extracted as RDF triples? It  
>> seems
>> to me this is what is most important for those who wish to  
>> interoperate
>> with an RDF toolchain.
>
> The proposed spec actually defines how to do this:
>
>   http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#rdf
>
> ...and Philip implemented a demo of how this might work that you can  
> test:
>
>   http://philip.html5.org/demos/microdata/demo.html
>
> (Scroll to the bottom to see the RDF output.)

Cool. Would any RDF experts care to comment on whether the proposed  
method of translation to RDF is correct and useful?

Regards,
Maciej

Received on Monday, 11 May 2009 11:18:14 UTC