- From: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:49:01 +0000
- To: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
- Cc: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, RDFa <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
Hi Jeni, If you've been wondering why your ears have been burning... Ivan asked whether you'd be able to add the London Gazette project as a case study to the list of semweb use cases, linked to in his comment below. I'm CCing him because I'm not quite sure how you go about it. :) Regards, Mark ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> Date: Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:38 AM Subject: Re: the white house uses RDFa To: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com> Cc: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, RDFa <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org> Hi Mark Putting my SW Activity hat one for once:-) Do you think we could have a SW Use Case for the gazette case? Ie, an entry to http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/ I do not have the necessary personal contacts for this, you may have them... Cheers Ivan Mark Birbeck wrote: > Hi Manu, > >> Pardon me as I retrieve my jaw from the floor... >> >> I thought government was supposed to be years behind the curve. > > I also had to retrieve my jaw from the floor (although it was over a > year ago), when UK government departments undertook even more > ambitious RDFa projects. > > I did a presentation at XML 2008 in December on two projects that I've > been working on with the Central Office of Information: > > <http://webbackplane.com/node/103> > > The key design criteria for both projects is that a number of > government departments should be able to use their existing publishing > tools to make important data available for re-use, but that the data > should be in a standard vocabulary. > > RDFa answers both requirements, because it can be embedded into HTML > -- meaning each department can choose its own method of publishing, > and other departments and third parties can extract it -- and that > it's RDF -- meaning that the data can be published using existing, > well known, vocabularies. > > And although I'm pleased with those projects, they weren't actually the first. > > Jeni Tennison had already been working with the Stationery Office on > RDFa-ising the London Gazette: > > <http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/528> > > This is an exciting project, and shows RDFa in a slightly different > scenario; there are certain categories of information for which there > is a legal requirement that they be published in the Gazette, such as > insolvencies, bankruptcies, certain types of roadworks, and so on. By > using RDFa to describe them when they are published, third-parties are > able to make use of the information, but the interesting thing is that > the information is authoritative. > > I would imagine that the increased publication of RDF-enabled > information by governments, using RDFa, will have an impact in turn on > encouraging the private sector to see RDFa as a viable semantic > publication mechanism. > > It all bodes well. :) > > Regards, > > Mark > -- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ mobile: +31-641044153 PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf -- Mark Birbeck, webBackplane mark.birbeck@webBackplane.com http://webBackplane.com/mark-birbeck webBackplane is a trading name of Backplane Ltd. (company number 05972288, registered office: 2nd Floor, 69/85 Tabernacle Street, London, EC2A 4RR)
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