- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:36:31 +0100
- To: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- CC: semantic-web at W3C <semantic-web@w3c.org>, public-lod@w3.org
Steve Harris wrote: > On 10 Jul 2009, at 14:31, Kingsley Idehen wrote: >> Steve et. al, >> >> If we are going to take the "how the Web was born" theme re. figuring >> out the path forward, then what's wrong with RDFa? If people sort of >> know how to write HTML, why not show them how to add rich metadata >> via RDFa? That said, we have a deeper problem re. Linked Data, and in >> my opinion it starts not fulling expressing the essence of the matter >> with clarity. The fundamental issues are > > RDFa doesn't generally solve the Syntax complexity problem. It solves the "groking what your actually doing"problem for those who author HTML docs. > Though, possibly RDFa documents that are not "nice" HTML (ie. not > really readable by humans) could be quite hacker-friendly. I've been > meaning to look into this. RDFa is the best starting point for enhancing Metadata carried by an HTML document. Once you understand that you are describing something, and that you do so using Subject, Predicate, Object statements, the essence of the matter is much much clearer. Once high level annotation tools for embedding RDFa in HTML are unleashed, this whole matter will become much clearer to a very broad spectrum of Web users :-) Kingsley > > - Steve > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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