- From: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:56:11 +0100
- To: Andras Pongo <andras.pongo14@gmail.com>
- CC: public-swd-wg@w3.org
- Message-ID: <4AF0367B.4080902@w3.org>
Andras, quick answer to your questions: - yes, XHTML+RDFa is certainly one way of moving forward. Whether you want to use it or you prefer to keep the RDF content in a separate file is, ultimately, your choice, and it may depend on the tools you have or you will have. - speaking of tools: the upcoming Drupal 7 release will include RDFa natively; there are also some extra modules you can download that will help you adding such goodies as a SPARQL endpoint. Unfortunately, I am not sure when that will be available, you will have to contact the Drupal community for that. But if you are planning your work, ie, you are not in a hurry, I would certainly look at this possibility. I hope this helps Ivan Andras Pongo wrote: > Dear Semantic Web Deployment Working Group! > > I'm an Msc student and I'm planning to prepare a thesis about certain > aspects of the Semantic Web. I already had some work about the concept > considering the bottom-up approach. I intended to create a Firefox > plugin which may annotate some special existing texts on the web but > challenges, that I'm sure you're aware of seemed to be too much for my > goals. > > So, for now I decided to turn to the top-bottom approach. > > I thought of a web application similar to Twine or Freebase where people > could annotate certain topics to eventually create a distributable > knowledge base with RDF and OWL. The site, if the thing that is being > annotated happens to be described by one of the ontology (or the users > already have or create their own ontology), could give hints for the > annotator about what properties can be annotated of that actual thing. > So basically a tool that may encourage the web user community to > generate machine processable annotations by trying to present some kind > of a user friendly GUI. I know that this is also a big task also, but > the my current problem is not exacctly this. > > My basic question is more related to RDFa. If I understand correctly a > new approach is emerging which will integrate the semantics in the page > (XHTML) source code to handle human and machine 'processable' content > together, instead of storing annotations in separate files (on which my > original concept based). > Could you verify that? Shall I try to create a web application based on > RDFa, or it is enough (because possibly it is easier), if I implement it > based on the original RDF concept? If RDFa is truly the future, could > you then give me some hint there are there any tool available now or in > the near future, or are there any best-practices about how one can add > these type of semantics to XHTML dinamically? Not hard coding it into > the code by a developper, but to insert such code into an XHTML based on > user annotations. What is your general idea about is? Using a separate > RDF for the annotation as a buffer, and regenerate the XHTML from it > when the annotated data is being retrieved? > > Thank you very much in advance! > /András Pongó -- Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ mobile: +31-641044153 PGP Key: http://www.ivan-herman.net/pgpkey.html FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf
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