- From: David Peterson <david@squishyfish.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:01:00 +1000
- To: "'Ben Adida'" <ben@adida.net>
- Cc: "'RDFa'" <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, "'SWD WG'" <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
Hello, I have been lurking for months now and also trying to implement RDFa so I am (kinda) up-to-date with things. Justin's points and Ben's response struck a chord. I would like to give you some of the needed manpower. I work with BoaB interactive [1] and we just recently joined the W3C. We do a number of things and one of them is a CMS for science groups. I have struggled to get RDFa to work once the pages are "in the wild". So I would like to work on use cases or testing and also I have some suggestions (mostly about strictness and HTML4). I am also presenting at a big tech conference in Sydney and would love to have some excellent talking points as to why RDFa is the answer (and I believe it is, just need to talk more with you all). I will be attending ISWC2007 in Busan, South Korea (Nov 11-15). Anyone in this list going to be there? If so I would rather enjoy sitting down and hashing out issues and ideas. And lastly, how do I officially join the RDFa group? I am BoaB's AC rep. If there is a page somewhere please point me in the right direction, again we just joined the W3C and I haven't had the time to read all the details on joining. David Peterson [1] BoaB interactive http://www.boabinteractive.com.au/ > -----Original Message----- > From: public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf-request@w3.org [mailto:public-rdf-in- > xhtml-tf-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Ben Adida > Sent: Thursday, 11 October 2007 7:29 AM > To: Justin Thorp > Cc: Manu Sporny; RDFa; SWD WG > Subject: Re: Review for RDFa Primer > > > > 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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