- From: Thomas Baker <baker@sub.uni-goettingen.de>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 15:04:50 +0100
- To: RDFa Task Force <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Some comments on RDFa from a Dublin Core mailing list. Tom On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 10:14:36AM +1100, David Bromage wrote: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 10:14:36 +1100 > Sender: General DCMI discussion list <DC-GENERAL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> > From: David Bromage <david.bromage@NAA.GOV.AU> > Subject: Re: DC metadata in docs as part of HTML > To: DC-GENERAL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > > The RDFa primer is a good starting point but it entrenches the legacy > namespace. It uses rel="license" in section 2.1 then goes on to use > dc:title and dc:creator in 2.2. Since the purpose is to help machines > understand the web, it would be more meaningful to use > rel="dcterms:license". > > W3C should be encouraged to use the range of more precise descriptions > dcterms allows. > > Regards > David > > David Bromage > Policy and Strategic Projects > Government Information Management Branch > > National Archives of Australia > PO Box 7425 > Canberra Business Centre ACT 2610 > > T (02) 6212 3731 F (02) 6212 3989 M 0418 394 778 > david.bromage@naa.gov.au > www.naa.gov.au > > > -----Original Message----- > From: General DCMI discussion list [mailto:DC-GENERAL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On > Behalf Of Liddy Nevile > Sent: Sunday, 4 January 2009 9:06 AM > To: DC-GENERAL@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: DC metadata in docs as part of HTML > > First - Happy and Safe New Year to everyone. > > I am wondering how many people have been using RDF/A to put their > metadata into the docs so that instead of just identifying something as > a heading, for example, it can be identified as the title (or > dc:title) and another bit of text as the author's name (dc:creator) and > affiliation and a particular link as a reference to the source > documents, etc? > > This is so much smarter than trying to bung stuff into a meta tag, it > seems to me - see http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/ > > Problem, as I see it, is that this is a technique for those using XHTML > and most people are using HTML, and it is not part of valid HTML. I am > wondering if there is interest in this problem - if people want to use > RDF/A, surely it should be included in the new versions of HTML? (HTML 5 > is being developed right now.) > > I would like it a lot because it would also make it much easier for > people to do really significant and helpful things about accessibility, > tagging content for what it offers and helping people find alternatives > to content components that they cannot use... > > Liddy -- Tom Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de>
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