- From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:43:51 +0200
- To: David Peterson <david@squishyfish.com>
- Cc: 'Ben Adida' <ben@adida.net>, 'RDFa' <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, 'SWD WG' <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <470E36A7.3000706@w3.org>
David, warm welcome! I will be at ISWC. Arriving Sunday, leaving Friday, and staying at the Riviera hotel. Unfortunately, Korea is one of the two countries I know of where my mobile does not work (the other being Japan):-(. But I hope there will be email and/or irc... I am sure we will find one another! Ivan David Peterson wrote: > 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/ >>> >>> > > > > -- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
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