- From: Lee Feigenbaum <feigenbl@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:40:14 -0500
- To: public-sweo-ig@w3.org
Paul wrote on 02/23/2007 09:54:14 AM: > So, we should be cooperative yes, but everyone needs to realise that there > *is* an element of competition. I don't think it's necessary and I don't > like it personally. >From where I sit, it seems to be the microformats crowd that has no interest in being cooperative with the RDF crowd. (c.f. recent posts like http://ben-ward.co.uk/journal/fao-rdf/ ) In addition, there seems to be an implicit assumption in much of what I see from the microformat community that RDF is only successful if it marks content up on the Web ala RDFa or eRDF. I know that there is somewhat of a split even within SWEO on the corporate SW vs. SW-on-the-web, but to me comments like "The thing about RDF is that no-one has yet demonstrated any real-world reason to care about it" seem to beg for some SWEO intervention. I think Danny's response is well-worth reading if you haven't already, though I remain personally unconvinced that the original post is "well-argued". In general, I wonder if we'd be better off focusing on promoting the virtues of RDF (on and off the Web) rather than engaging the microformats community directly. Lee
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