- From: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@formsPlayer.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:38:22 +0100
- To: "Bruce D'Arcus" <bdarcus@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Semantic Web" <semantic-web@w3.org>, "W3C RDFa task force" <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Hi Bruce, > I've mentioned this here before, but more on RDF-in-OpenDocument. > > <http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/10/odf-enters-semantic-web.html> > > The OpenOffice project is now starting to looking into implementing it, > so people here might be interested. I note that the attributes used in ODF are 'inspired' by RDFa [1]--but why not just incorporate RDFa as is? It's especailly confusing for authors when this 'inpiration' seems to involve copying some RDFa attributes, but changing the names of others. For example, @about is used, but @datatype has been renamed to @data-type! This lack of alignment is a shame, especially when the proponents of ODF are generally critical of the confusion that can be caused by companies and organisations pursuing alternate document formats. There is a fantastic opportunity here for creating tools and search engines that could leverage a 'standard' way of incorporating metadata into HTML, XHTML, ODF, and other mark-up languages. That opportunity now looks like it is going to be missed. Regards, Mark [1] <http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/25055/Metadata_22August2007.txt> -- Mark Birbeck, formsPlayer mark.birbeck@formsPlayer.com | +44 (0) 20 7689 9232 http://www.formsPlayer.com | http://internet-apps.blogspot.com standards. innovation.
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