Re: RDFa Primer ready for Working Group review

Ed,

Thanks for your comments. Here's how I've addressed them.

> - Section 1, paragraph 2
> 
> "When web data meant for humans is augmented with hints meant for computer
> programs, computers become significantly more helpful, because they begin to
> understand more of the data's meaning."
> 
> I had trouble parsing this sentence at first, and once I did I found myself
> going down the rabbit hole wondering if computers really *understand*
> anything? I'd recommend removing it.

I've removed the word "meaning," and changed to "structure," in order to 
avoid the rabbit hole. I've kept the sentence since I think it gives a 
purpose to the effort, a purpose which was lacking in previous drafts 
and about which some reviewed complained.

> - Section 1, paragraph 3
> 
> s/indications/indicators/

fixed.

> - Section 2.3, paragraph 1
> 
> s/Eve guest blogs, too/Eve guest blogs too/

I think the comma is grammatically correct, but I'll check.

> - Section 3
> 
> "In addition to data about her blog entry, Alice wants to make her contact
> information easier to read for programs that update her friends' address books"
> 
> ->
> 
> "In addition, Alice wants to make information about herself (email address,
> phone number, etc.) available to her friends contact management software."

done.

> - Section 3.2
> 
> The examples have an outer div with the following permutations:
> 
>   <div ...>
>   <div ... xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/">
>   <div class="social-network">
>   <div class="social-network" about="#me" rel="foaf:knows">
> 
> I'd normalize them so that the first looks like:
> 
>   <div>
> 
> the second, third and fourth ones look like:
> 
>   <div xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/">
> 
> and the fifth looks like:
> 
>   <div xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/" about="#me" rel="foaf:knows">

done.

> In general I'd remove the '...' from elements if possible.

done.

> - Section 4
> 
> "The point of RDF is to provide a universal language for expressing data"
> ->
> "The point of RDF is to provide a universal language for expressing information
> about resources in the World Wide Web".

Hmmm, I disagree :) RDF can describe anything, since URIs can be 
anything, including blank nodes, non-dereference-able URNs, etc...

Left this as is.

> "A unit of data can have any number of fields, and field names are URLs which
> can be reused by any publisher, much like any web publisher can link to any
> web page, even ones they did not create themselves."
> ->
> "A resource can be described by anyone, much like any web publisher can link
> to any web page, even ones they did not create themselves."

I like your simplification, but the rest of the wordage there exists for 
a specific purpose: to describe the concept of a "field name" which I 
use in the rest of the document once or twice.

I think we have to live with the slightly more complicated version.

> - Section 5
> 
> "RDFa examples are fleshed out over at the RDFa Wiki."
> ->
> "More examples, links to tools, and information on how to get involved
> can be found on the RDFa Wiki."

Done

> PS. what did you use to create the graph illustrations?

OmniGraffle. http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/
which, as of v5, supports SVG export, so I'll have to check that out. 
PNG for now :)

-Ben

Received on Monday, 26 May 2008 17:21:17 UTC