Re: Mixing-up Semantic Data with HTML Rendering

Hi Landong,

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:40 AM, landong zuo
<landong.zuo@googlemail.com> wrote:> Hi Toby,>> The working-around
style sheet you pointed out should work well in> this particular case.
Many thanks for your suggestion.>> My use case falls into the class as
you states "converting to RDFa and> injecting to HTML template". We
have to be very careful in this> process not to confuse "HTML
semantics" with "RDF semantics". This is> really painful.>> The case
could become even worse to have attached metadata like RDF> signature
or Provenance. This type of metadata could be generated by> different
organisations, and has to be carried all the way through> data
transformation process without change to the semantics. We have> no
control over RDF triples.  Additional triples like xhv:stylesheet>
would definitely ruin the metadata.>> I think Named Graph will be a
promising answer for this type of> questions. What do you think?
IMO any web-page that is parsed for RDF is a named graph, whether it
wants to be or not. :) When implementing an RDFa parser I always used
to store the triples from any HTML page into a named graph identified
by the document's URI, as if the following were present [1]:

  <html>
    <head about="" typeof="rdf:Graph">
      <!-- everything in here is about the named graph -->
    </head>
    .
    .
    .
  </html>

The fact that a named graph also has a CSS stylesheet is therefore no
big deal (and anyway, it's true).

If authors then follow best practice and refrain from mixing their
people up with their web-pages, then all other triples should come out
fine:

  <html>
    <head about="" typeof="rdf:Graph">
      <!-- everything in here is about the named graph -->
    </head>
    <body about="#langdong" typeof="foaf:Person">
      <!-- everything in here is about the object represented by the
named graph -->
    </body>
  </html>

As you can see, I don't think anything needs to change in RDFa to make
your scenario possible.

Regards,

Mark

[1] I'm pretty sure that Jeremy Carroll proposed rdf:Graph some time
back, but I can't find a reference. I'm sure someone like Ivan will
know where it comes from though. ;)

Received on Monday, 5 December 2011 14:28:04 UTC