- From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:30:32 +0100
- To: mark.birbeck@x-port.net
- Cc: RDFa <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yep, it is an interesting one. Actually, this is a copy of an earlier blog he made: http://www.bibsonomy.org/swrc/tag/books%20sweo?item=1000 Which is great... Ivan Mark Birbeck wrote: > > Hello all, > > As always Kurt Cagle makes interesting points, this time in a round-up > of what to watch out for in XML technologies: > > Similarly, I suspect that while RDFa may have a fairly major hill to > climb in terms of > adoption, it will likely end up becoming integral to the semantic > web fairly soon. _Folk > ontologies_ (or folksonomies, as some have referred to them) are not > in fact really > ontologies at all - they are instead simply property associations. > If you can articulate > a consisten (sic) property relationship using attributes outside of > the normal XHTML > ones, then you can do more than simply tag a document - you can in fact > create > relationships between entities in an XHTML document without having > to leave the > context of that document. That's what RDFa does. These can then be > interpreted by > RDF enabled tools, making it possible to achieve something of the > holy grail of the > semantic web - provide a simple way of nonetheless encoding metadata > into a > document. I've argued for years that RDF as it exists right now is > too complex for > your average web developer, and what's more it perforce requires > duplication of > content between the RDF and XHTML (or whatever document format you're > using). > Eliminate this need for duplication by embedded the descriptive relational > characteristics directly in the element's attribute set, and all of > a sudden the > Semantic Web begins to move away from being unachievable to being doable. > > The full article is here: > > <http://www.understandingxml.com/2007/03/where_is_xml_going.html> > > Regards, > > Mark > - -- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead URL: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ PGP Key: http://www.cwi.nl/%7Eivan/AboutMe/pgpkey.html FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGAPs4dR3hQzQ/Gj0RAhBRAJ9bZrYkX7jTuZVpMPMAuMyx+0sm2gCfdzU9 X1coIcf5yw472abxNLFtJH0= =zryz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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