- From: Ben Adida <ben@adida.net>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:28:58 -0700
- To: Justin Thorp <juth@loc.gov>
- CC: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, RDFa <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, SWD WG <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
All good points, although we are low on manpower. [Ben puts his TF chair hat on] Interested in helping us out with this? Having the "outsider perspective" on these issues would be *very* helpful, as we've already seen with Manu's contributions. -Ben Justin Thorp wrote: > 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 > > > ****************** > Justin Thorp > US Library of Congress > Web Services - Office of Strategic Initiatives > e - juth@loc.gov > p - 202/707-9541 > >>>> 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 > > -- > Manu Sporny > President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. > blog: Bitmunk Launches World's First Open Music Recommendation Service > http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2007/09/09/bitmunk-music-recommendation/ > > >
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