- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 16:39:32 -0000
- To: "William Loughborough" <love26@gorge.net>
- Cc: "Anne Pemberton" <apembert@crosslink.net>, "Kynn Bartlett" <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> I am all in favor of summaries (where appropriate?) and in fact think they > are an important part of the indexing (they are the "what" and "why") and > will play a major part in making the Semantic Web usable. Such materials > are what they mean by "Resource Description" the first two items in the RDF > acronym! Hopefully it will be fossible to automatically generate site summaries in the SW. You could do it now I suppose, by extracting all of the headings and so forth, but really page semantics need to improve first. (task: develop an XSLT script to extract useful page summaries). Actually, Dan Connolly has already done this: for the W3C homepage. If you look at the source of http://www.w3.org/ you'll note the profile attribute in the head element. That points to Dan's hacking around in XSLT and RSS. (Er...try http://www.w3.org/2000/07/hs78/ if I remember correctly). It's useful, but it uses class attributes to do it, so it's not the best solution. If we could embed Dublin Core descriptions into a page, it would make things a lot easier. On another similar note, he also created an XSLT for screen scraping RDF data from HTML: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-interest/2000Mar/0103.html Quoth DC: Summary: "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." - Dan Connolly, ibid. So it appears that annotation mechanisms (I favour Dublin Core, for now) are the way to go. Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer http://xhtml.waptechinfo.com/swr/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/ "Perhaps, but let's not get bogged down in semantics." - Homer J. Simpson, BABF07.
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