Re: Review for RDFa Primer

Are there any plans for submitting articles to A List Apart or approaching the Microformats community and starting a discussion about the differences between RDFa and Microformats?

In addition to blog posts, is there going to be an FAQ coming from the W3C which addresses some of these questions?

Just would want to make sure that we don't assume anything about what folks do or do not understand.

cheers,
- justin


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Justin Thorp
US Library of Congress
Web Services - Office of Strategic Initiatives
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>>> Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> 10/9/2007 8:50 PM >>>

Ben Adida wrote:
>> As Joe Developer, I wanna know how does RDFa relate to microformats?
>> Is RDFa a replacement for microformats?  Do they work together
>> somehow? 
> 
> Manu Sporny is currently writing up a document that explains why his
> group needed more than microformats and chose RDFa. He's also writing up
> how their final solution uses both.

The document, which is a work in progress, can be found here:

http://wiki.digitalbazaar.com/en/haudio-case-study 

To summarize, there is room in this world for both - each addresses a
slightly different problem domain.

As far as we (Digital Bazaar) see it, RDFa is a technically brilliant
solution for adding semantics to web pages. It takes a de-centralized
approach to creating vocabularies.

Microformats are beautiful in their simplicity. Simplicity has also led
to markup restrictions, which is okay - the community is more interested
in embedding semantics into the web than being the final solution. The
uF community takes a centralized approach to creating vocabularies.

The document linked to above goes into some of the specific benefits and
problems of working with both Microformats and RDFa. It is meant to be
accessible to most web publishers.

-- manu

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Manu Sporny
President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
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http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2007/09/09/bitmunk-music-recommendation/

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