- From: Steve Williams <sbw@digg.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:46:53 -0700
- To: public-rdfa@w3.org
At 11:40 PM 9/24/2008, Hausenblas, Michael wrote: >http://playtheweb.org/2008/09/24/rdfa-trials-and-travails/ That pretty much describes what I'm feeling as I try to add more RDFa to Digg. The complexity of RDFa keeps pushing me back toward Microformats, but I sense that RDFa enables different things from Microformats. Again, my example is SearchMonkey: Yahoo!'s crawler can index any RDFa, whether Dublin Core or my own custom vocabulary. But they can only index formal microformats, because custom microformats are indistinguishable from ordinary mark-up. In other words, if I must add custom metadata, RDFa lets me use it in a third-party tool with no prearrangement. The same isn't possible with Microformats, which would require me to lobby with Yahoo! (and every other toolmaker) to recognize this or that Microformat candidate I dream up. Do I have that right?
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