Re: FYI: another usage proposal for RDFa

Good point indeed! I missed that one.

Ivan

Mark Birbeck wrote:
> Hi Ivan,
> 
>> http://knoesis.wright.edu/research/sss/standards/sa-rest/
> 
> Very interesting...thanks for the link.
> 
> The discussion of the various techniques available is particularly
> interesting. The note discusses the pros and cons of both RDFa and
> GRDDL, most of which would be familiar to us. But there was one
> comment that I'd not actually considered before:
> 
>   RDFa also has the advantage of being a standardized microformat, which
>   makes it simpler for a developer to maintain and understand a page created
>   by someone else.
> 
> It basically means that when reading mark-up that is targeted at
> GRDDL, you'd have to look at the GRDDL transformation rules to
> understand what it going on. (Or some syntax document for the format
> being used.) It's an interesting point, because it shows that 'follow
> your nose' is great for machines ('go find the transformation rules
> and apply them') but not so good for humans.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark
> 

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