- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:35:14 -0600
- To: Ben Adida <ben@mit.edu>
- Cc: RDF in XHTML task force <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, public-swbp-wg@w3.org
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 13:00, Ben Adida wrote: > Greetings to both the TF and the WG, > > > At Creative Commons, we need a solution for including RDF statements in > HTML chunks (XHTML 1.0/2.0, non-compliant HTML, etc...). The two > solutions presented have some attractive qualities, but they don't work > for CC yet. > > For CC - and I believe for XHTML users in general - an RDF expression > solution should have the following properties: > (1) a chunk of HTML, independent of the HEAD or BODY tags, can include > RDF statements. > (2) whenever possible, RDF statements should be intimately tied to what > a user sees in the visible portions of the XHTML. Yes... that second one is what led me to GRDDL in the first place. I'm struggling with the 1st requirement, though. [...] > So, here's something that would work: > > <!-- Begin Creative Commons License --> > This document is licensed under a > <a rel="http://web.resource.org/cc/rels/license" > href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/1.0/"> > Creative Commons License > </a> > <!-- End Creative Commons License --> > > which would be translated to N3 notation as: > > <> <http://web.resource.org/cc/rels/license> > <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/1.0/"> [...] > Why can't we do this (or something similar)? I dunno... is it sufficiently clear that *everybody* who uses a URI as a link relationship name meant the N3 triples that come out from that conversion? I'm still thinking it over. p.s. > The GRDDL weakness is that it currently requires a HEAD profile, which > is bad because: > - HTML chunks can't contain CC licenses > - there's only one possible profile for the whole page I think multiple profiles work, but that's an issue... see "How many profiles fit in the head of an HTML angel?" -- http://www.w3.org/2004/01/rdxh/specbg.html I don't think it makes or breaks your point (1) above, though. [...] -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ see you at the WWW2004 in NY 17-22 May?
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