- From: Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:48:27 +0100
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Cc: semantic-web at W3C <semantic-web@w3c.org>, public-lod@w3.org
On 10 Jul 2009, at 15:36, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > Steve Harris wrote: >> On 10 Jul 2009, at 14:31, Kingsley Idehen wrote: >>> Steve et. al, >>> >>> If we are going to take the "how the Web was born" theme re. >>> figuring out the path forward, then what's wrong with RDFa? If >>> people sort of know how to write HTML, why not show them how to >>> add rich metadata via RDFa? That said, we have a deeper problem >>> re. Linked Data, and in my opinion it starts not fulling >>> expressing the essence of the matter with clarity. The fundamental >>> issues are >> >> RDFa doesn't generally solve the Syntax complexity problem. > It solves the "groking what your actually doing"problem for those > who author HTML docs. Perhaps, but I'm not totally convinced. I think the mapping between RDFa and triples is sufficiently complex that it may not help. >> Though, possibly RDFa documents that are not "nice" HTML (ie. not >> really readable by humans) could be quite hacker-friendly. I've >> been meaning to look into this. > RDFa is the best starting point for enhancing Metadata carried by an > HTML document. Once you understand that you are describing > something, and that you do so using Subject, Predicate, Object > statements, the essence of the matter is much much clearer. If people make the leap between RDFa syntax and triples, yes. > Once high level annotation tools for embedding RDFa in HTML are > unleashed, this whole matter will become much clearer to a very > broad spectrum of Web users :-) Now, that I definitely disagree with. The broad spectrum of web users do not edit HTML, and I would guess that the majority of HTML out there is machine generated. At least in part. That's not to say that I think such a tool is a bad idea, I don't, but that it wont be any kind of universal panacea. - Steve
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