Re: the "a" in "RDFa"?

It's "RDF in _a_ttributes."

:)

We thought a few times about revisiting the name, but it's caught on
enough. Maybe it should be like "AT&T" and "KFC": it used to have a
meaning, but now it doesn't (although I hear KFC is now back to being an
acronym for Kentucky Fried Chicken....)

-Ben

Bob DuCharme wrote:
> I believe I've asked this before, but I'm pretty sure I didn't see an
> answer, and web searching can't find my original question.
> 
> Where did the name RDFa (or before it, RDF/a) come from? Take "RDF" and
> add an "a"--why? Does it mean "assertion"? Or does it represent the HTML a
> element, which is a popular element in RDFa syntax for wrapping PCDATA to
> make oy the object of an RDF triple? Or does it stand for a slightly
> altered fork of RDF the way you might add step 2a between step 2 and step
> 3?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 
>

Received on Monday, 29 January 2007 02:25:46 UTC