RE: Review for RDFa Primer

Hello,

I have been lurking for months now and also trying to implement RDFa so I am
(kinda) up-to-date with things. Justin's points and Ben's response struck a
chord. I would like to give you some of the needed manpower. I work with
BoaB interactive [1] and we just recently joined the W3C. We do a number of
things and one of them is a CMS for science groups. I have struggled to get
RDFa to work once the pages are "in the wild".

So I would like to work on use cases or testing and also I have some
suggestions (mostly about strictness and HTML4). I am also presenting at a
big tech conference in Sydney and would love to have some excellent talking
points as to why RDFa is the answer (and I believe it is, just need to talk
more with you all).

I will be attending ISWC2007 in Busan, South Korea (Nov 11-15). Anyone in
this list going to be there? If so I would rather enjoy sitting down and
hashing out issues and ideas.

And lastly, how do I officially join the RDFa group? I am BoaB's AC rep. If
there is a page somewhere please point me in the right direction, again we
just joined the W3C and I haven't had the time to read all the details on
joining.


David Peterson


[1] BoaB interactive
http://www.boabinteractive.com.au/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf-request@w3.org [mailto:public-rdf-in-
> xhtml-tf-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Ben Adida
> Sent: Thursday, 11 October 2007 7:29 AM
> To: Justin Thorp
> Cc: Manu Sporny; RDFa; SWD WG
> Subject: 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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