- From: Ian Davis <me@iandavis.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:04:08 +0100
- To: Andraz Tori <andraz@zemanta.com>
- Cc: public-lod@w3.org
Congratulations! This looks really good On Thursday, June 11, 2009, Andraz Tori <andraz@zemanta.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > today, a small consortium of web companies and one institute > (AdaptiveBlue, DERI (NUI Galway), Faviki, Freebase, Yahoo!, Zemanta, and > Zigtag) released a format specifying expression of semantic tags so our > tools will understand/publish them. > > http://commontag.org > > It is RDFa based and it does not mandate specific vocabulary of meanings > for tags. DBpedia and Freebase are currently used by Zigtag, Faviki and > Zemanta. > > Soon Glue browsing extension will support it too - so there's going to > be improved browsing experience as a bonus for semantically tagging the > content. We tried to build on previous experience of MOAT and others and > simplify even further, so the barrier to entry will be low as possible > (but still RDFa is not grokked by a lot of publishing platforms). > > I am interested on your thoughts in this! > > And if anyone wants to use this somewhere please report it, so we'll put > it under Applications page at http://commontag.org > > [i'll be traveling in next few days and won't be able to answer emails > promptly, but there are guys from other organizations this list that > will] > > > -- > Andraz Tori, CTO > Zemanta Ltd, New York, London, Ljubljana > www.zemanta.com > mail: andraz@zemanta.com > tel: +386 41 515 767 > twitter: andraz, skype: minmax_test > > > > >
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