- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:01:46 -0500
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- CC: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, Michael Bolger <michael@michaelbolger.net>, public-rdfa@w3.org, RDFa mailing list <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
Kingsley Idehen wrote: > > Ian Hickson wrote: >> To reiterate: I have approached and been approached by a number of >> people in the RDF and RDFa communities, and I have repeatedly asked >> for people to list problems and use cases that are of relevance in >> the context of RDFa and RDF, with those problem descriptions not >> mentioning RDFa or other technical solutions. So far we have seen >> *very few* of these. >> >> > Ian, > > I am quite relieved by your response. > > Here is an attempt at a use-case: > > When writing HTML (by hand or indirectly via a program) I want to > isolate at describe what the content is about in terms of people, > places, and other real-world things. I want to isolate "Napoleon" from > a paragraph or heading, and state that the aforementioned entity is: > is of type "Person" and he is associated with another entity "France". > > The use-case above is like taking a highlighter and making notes while > reading about "Napoleon". This is what we all do when studying, but > when we were kids, we never actually shared that part of our endeavors > since it was typically the route to competitive advantage i.e., being > top student in the class. > > What I state above is antithetical to the essence of the World Wide > Web, as vital infrastructure harnessing collective intelligence. > > RDFa is about the ability to share what never used to be shared. It > provides a simple HTML friendly mechanism that enables Web Users or > Developers to describe things using the Entity-Attribute-Value > approach (or Subject, Predicate, Object) without the tedium associated > with RDF/XML (one of the other methods of making statements for the > underlying graph model that is RDF). > > > To be a little clearer re. use-case: Use of HTML to make annotations that aid the production and dissemination knowledge on a global basis. I shouldn't have to switch to another language in order to express or identify concepts associated with the text/blurb in a Web page I am reading, writing, or publishing. -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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