- From: Tom Heath <tom.heath@talis.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:46:05 +0200
- To: martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org
- Cc: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com>, public-lod@w3.org, semantic-web at W3C <semantic-web@w3c.org>
Martin, 2009/6/27 Martin Hepp (UniBW) <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>: > So if this "hidden div / span" approach is not feasible, we got a problem. > > The reason is that, as beautiful the idea is of using RDFa to make a) the > human-readable presentation and b) the machine-readable meta-data link to > the same literals, the problematic is it in reality once the structure of a) > and b) are very different. > > For very simple property-value pairs, embedding RDFa markup is no problem. > But if you have a bit more complexity at the conceptual level and in > particular if there are significant differences to the structure of the > presentation (e.g. in terms of granularity, ordering of elements, etc.), it > gets very, very messy and hard to maintain. Amen. Thank you for writing this. I completely agree. RDFa has some great use cases but (like any technology) has its limitations. Let's not oversell it. Tom.
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