- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 12:45:40 +0100
- To: dorait@imorph.com
- Cc: iris garden <iris2000sa@yahoo.com>, semanticweb@yahoogroups.com, semantic-web@w3.org
re. http://microformats.org The main idea is roughly tweaking/adding bits of markup to make information people are already publishing as (X)HTML more machine-readable, e.g. for events, reviews, etc. The connection with the Semantic Web should be clear from this 2000 mail from Dan Connolly [1]: [[ I believe that one of the best ways to transition into RDF, if not a long-term deployment strategy for RDF, is to manage the information in human-consumable form (XHTML) annotated with just enough info to extract the RDF statements that the human info is intended to convey. In other words: using a relational database or some sort of native RDF data store, and spitting out HTML dynamically, is a lot of infrastructure to operate and probably not worth it for lots of interesting cases. We all know that we have to produce a human-readable version of the thing... why not use that as the primary source? ]] The microformats approach is to definine specific domain models/(micro)formats in line with good practices, there's no attempt at a general data language above XHTML (check Embedded RDF [2] for that). The microformats folks do advocate the use of metadata profiles, so in principle at least the data should be available as RDF using GRDDL [3]. Worst-case, it's a darn sight more deterministic than scraping ;-) On 1/5/06, Dorai Thodla <dorait@yahoo.com> wrote: > http://esw.w3.org/topic/MicroModels Thanks Dorai, this is basically me trying to accumulate SemWeb-friendly schemas/models/XSLT corresponding to microformats, StructuredBlogging and other format-oriented initiatives. Cheers, Danny. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Mar/0103 [2] http://research.talis.com/2005/erdf/wiki/Main/RdfInHtml [3] http://www.w3.org/2004/01/rdxh/spec -- http://dannyayers.com
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