Re: Anyone able to help improve Dublin Core namespace XSLT to support RDFS RDFa?

I'd be happy to help consult on what needs to be done. I'll try to get the environment going, but I might be more effective as a resource to help resolve issues or provide some direction.

Checking out the repo now.

Gregg

On May 10, 2012, at 9:52 AM, Dan Brickley wrote:

> Hi folks
> 
> I'm talking with Tom Baker of Dublin Core (cc:'d), about improving the
> Dublin Core terms vocabulary documentation.
> 
> At the moment, if you try to fetch e.g.
> http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator you end up with RDF/XML
> 
> Meanwhile there is a rich and detailed HTML document at
> http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ that describes each of
> these terms.
> 
> The HTML is generated using some XSLT-based tools (+ Java Ant build
> machinery etc.). Some time ago, it was posted into Github (with Manu's
> help I believe) and there was a partial effort at adding RDFa.
> 
> Since the RDFa 1.1 work is now all-but complete, it would be great to
> migrate DC's documentation to use inline RDFa 1.1 (ideally Lite) for
> per-term documentation, so a single page could be both human and
> machine documentation.
> 
> Would anyone here be willing to help get this done? I'm copying Hugh
> Barnes who started some work on this (Hugh - if you're interested in
> picking this up again that would be really great!).
> 
> See https://github.com/hughbris/website for the partial RDFa fork;
> https://github.com/dublincore/website for the main branch. Tom has
> some updated config files which he could commit or otherwise pass
> along.
> 
> If you check out the repo and have java ant set up, you should be able
> to build the HTML by typing 'ant' then looking at
> build/html/dcmi-terms/index.shtml  ... and then start to figure out
> how it's made by looking at web/xsl/html-dcmiterms.xsl
> 
> It would be great to have DC updated for RDFa. Longer term DC is
> looking into a more complete solution for it's vocab management needs.
> The idea here is more of a quick-fix to bring DC into the age of RDFa.
> I'd try it myself but I've my hands full with schema.org and FOAF...
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Dan
>

Received on Thursday, 10 May 2012 17:01:01 UTC