RE: Primer update

Hi, Ivan:

....Hope you're feeling better.  My only recommendation is to restructure
your introduction using bullet points for some of the excellent content you
have:

Example:

RDFa enables machine readable "tags" to be included with electronic or "born
digital' materials (text, images, video, etc.) that are marked up using a
variety of webpage markup languages.  These "tags" may include such
information as:

1.	 who created a particular material
2.	 important descriptive and/or technical information pertaining to
the material
3.	 intellectual property rights associated with the material's use
4.	 information on finding related materials which may be of interest
and/or use (ex. Links to the creator's social networking page, where other
examples of her/his work might be accessible.)

Instead of: 

What if the browser, or any machine consumer such as a Web crawler, received
information on the meaning of a web page's visual elements? A dinner party
announced on a blog could be easily copied to the user's calendar, an
author's complete contact information to the user's address book. Users
could automatically recall previously browsed articles according to
categorization labels (i.e., tags). A photo copied and pasted from a web
site to a school report would carry with it a link back to the photographer,
giving her proper credit. A link shared by a user to his social network
contacts would automatically carry additional data pulled from the original
web page: a thumbnail, an author, and a specific title. When web data meant
for humans is augmented with hints meant for computer programs, these
programs become significantly more helpful, because they begin to understand
the data's structure. 

RDFa allows HTML authors to do just that. Using a few simple HTML
attributes, authors can mark up human-readable data with machine-readable
indicators for browsers and other programs to interpret. A web page can
include markup for items as simple as the title of an article, or as complex
as a user's complete social network. 

I think the examples are very clear and concise.  ...Hope this helps and
doesn't create too much of an editing issue.

Tom


Tom Adamich, MLS
President
Visiting Librarian Service
P.O. Box 932 
New Philadelphia, OH 44663
330-364-4410
vls@tusco.net

-----Original Message-----
From: public-rdfa-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-rdfa-wg-request@w3.org]
On Behalf Of Ivan Herman
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 5:19 AM
To: W3C RDFWA WG
Subject: Primer update

Unfortunately, I got sick (probably brought bac a travellers' bug from
India...) so I forgot to send out this mail... I have made yet another
update of the RDFa Primer:

http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/sources/rdfa-primer/

taking over the examples that were in the previous version of the RDFa API
(and have slightly modified them here and there).

Again, I would like to get this published as a FPWD soon, to put a stake in
the ground (we are very late with that one), which requires that some of you
have a look at the text to see if it is good enough...

Thanks

Ivan

----
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

Received on Wednesday, 6 April 2011 12:41:23 UTC