Re: Review for RDFa Primer

All good points, although we are low on manpower.

[Ben puts his TF chair hat on]

Interested in helping us out with this? Having the "outsider
perspective" on these issues would be *very* helpful, as we've already
seen with Manu's contributions.

-Ben

Justin Thorp wrote:
> Are there any plans for submitting articles to A List Apart or approaching the Microformats community and starting a discussion about the differences between RDFa and Microformats?
> 
> In addition to blog posts, is there going to be an FAQ coming from the W3C which addresses some of these questions?
> 
> Just would want to make sure that we don't assume anything about what folks do or do not understand.
> 
> cheers,
> - justin
> 
> 
> ******************
> Justin Thorp
> US Library of Congress
> Web Services - Office of Strategic Initiatives
> e - juth@loc.gov
> p - 202/707-9541
> 
>>>> Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> 10/9/2007 8:50 PM >>>
> 
> Ben Adida wrote:
>>> As Joe Developer, I wanna know how does RDFa relate to microformats?
>>> Is RDFa a replacement for microformats?  Do they work together
>>> somehow? 
>> Manu Sporny is currently writing up a document that explains why his
>> group needed more than microformats and chose RDFa. He's also writing up
>> how their final solution uses both.
> 
> The document, which is a work in progress, can be found here:
> 
> http://wiki.digitalbazaar.com/en/haudio-case-study 
> 
> To summarize, there is room in this world for both - each addresses a
> slightly different problem domain.
> 
> As far as we (Digital Bazaar) see it, RDFa is a technically brilliant
> solution for adding semantics to web pages. It takes a de-centralized
> approach to creating vocabularies.
> 
> Microformats are beautiful in their simplicity. Simplicity has also led
> to markup restrictions, which is okay - the community is more interested
> in embedding semantics into the web than being the final solution. The
> uF community takes a centralized approach to creating vocabularies.
> 
> The document linked to above goes into some of the specific benefits and
> problems of working with both Microformats and RDFa. It is meant to be
> accessible to most web publishers.
> 
> -- manu
> 
> --
> Manu Sporny
> President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
> blog: Bitmunk Launches World's First Open Music Recommendation Service
> http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2007/09/09/bitmunk-music-recommendation/ 
> 
> 
>

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