- From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 16:43:06 +0200
- To: <vls@tusco.net>
- Cc: "'W3C RDFWA WG'" <public-rdfa-wg@w3.org>, "'Manu Sporny'" <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, <patty.perkins@wellsfargo.com>
- Message-Id: <9C021179-0F4C-4263-A4FB-F68EEEA889D6@w3.org>
Tom, to be very honest with you, I am not convinced about that change. Yes, it makes the text more crisp, and it would certainly be more appropriate for a specification, but this is a primer which can live with a different style (b.t.w., I am not defending my own text here, I took this over from Mark and Ben...). Any other opinions? Ivan On Apr 6, 2011, at 14:35 , Tom Adamich wrote: > 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 > > > > > > ---- 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
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