Re: Linked Data & RDFa

 > Now that the dolt-splat has been applied and RDFa has straightened up 
with 1.1 Lite, why continue to punish data publishers/consumers with two 
redundant solutions?
-- Yes, this.  The differences are marginal now and the two co-existing 
adds confusion precisely where it is not needed.

Warmly,
Kevin


On 01/18/2013 11:18 AM, Young,Jeff (OR) wrote:
> I appreciate the fact that Microdata set an example for how RDFa could streamline itself. Now that the dolt-splat has been applied and RDFa has straightened up with 1.1 Lite, why continue to punish data publishers/consumers with two redundant solutions?
>
> http://manu.sporny.org/2012/mythical-differences/
> http://manu.sporny.org/2012/microdata-cr/
>
> The imagined differences distract people from what really matters: the data model.
>
> In my situation as a Linked Data researcher trying to encourage production adoption, the choice between content-negotiation and/or RDFa inevitably boils down to what's practical in the context of a bespoke system. Some convenient leverage points suit content-negotiation, some suit injecting an RDFa blob into a previously designed HTML page. Intermingling RDFa in HTML the way it's 'supposed' to be is surprisingly challenging for both technical and social reasons.
>
> Jeff
>
>> On 18/01/13 11:23, Dan Brickley wrote:
>> With RDFa maturing (RDFa 1.1, particularly Lite), I wanted to ask here
>> about attitudes to RDFa.
>>
>> I have acquired the impression somehow that in the Linked Data scene,
>> people lean more towards the classic 'a doc for the humans, another for
>> the machines' partitioning model. Perhaps this is just a consequence of
>> history; digging around some old rdfweb/foaf discussions[1] I realise
>> just how far we've come. RDFa wasn't an option for a long time; but it
>> is now.
>>
>> So - questions. How much of the linked data cloud is expressed in some
>> variant HTML+RDFa alongside RDF/XML, Turtle etc.? When/if you do so,
>> are you holding some data back and keeping it only in the machine-
>> oriented dumps, or including it in the RDFa? Are you finding it hard to
>> generate RDFa from triple datasets because it's 'supposed'
>> to be intermingled with human text? What identifiers (if any) are you
>> assigning to real-world entities? Dataset maintainers ... as you look
>> to the future is RDFa in your planning? Did/does Microdata confuse the
>> picture?
>>
>> I'm curious where we are with this...
>>
>> Dan
>

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