- From: Martin McEvoy <martin@weborganics.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:54:00 +0000
- To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, RDFa mailing list <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
Hello Manu, all
Manu Sporny wrote:
> All of the examples you provided as alternatives, including a first cut
> at the issues for each, have been added to the non-RDFa solutions page:
>
> http://rdfa.info/wiki/non-rdfa-open-data-solutions#Screen_Scraping
>
I'm not being awkward here but the two issues relating to Screen
Scraping are not really valid issues
* Scrapers must be re-written or updated when the page layout changes.
No not at all usually this only happens when the data model changes, not
when a page layout changes...
* Scrapers must be written specifically for a specific site and
single page type
Hmm again this is not accurate, the GRDDL profile[1] used by RDFa can be
used on any RDFa embedded page on any site, the same goes also for
eRDF[2] and RDF-3T[3].
There are issues of course with screen scraping, as I mentioned above
Scrapers do have to be re-written when a data model changes for example
when "role" was changed to "instanceof" and then again when "typeof" was
adopted. the RDFa GRDDL profile mentioned above had to be changed. The
same issue also exists for web pages as above, when a data model changes
the web pages need to be re-written. Of course when you have a format
that everyone is happy with, the issues I highlighted above go away.
[1] http://ns.inria.fr/grddl/rdfa/
[2] http://purl.org/NET/erdf/profile
[3] http://purl.org/weborganics/RDF-3T
Best wishes.
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Martin McEvoy
http://weborganics.co.uk/
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Dr. James Lovelock, The Ages of Gaia
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