- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: 02 Apr 2003 11:45:02 -0600
- To: Frank Manola <fmanola@mitre.org>
- Cc: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>, w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org, www-rdf-comments@w3.org, Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 11:51, Frank Manola wrote: > Brian-- > > From the perspective of the Primer, this might be a tad tricky. We > explicitly removed discussion of how to embed RDF in HTML from the > Primer, and while I can appreciate that SVG is a different story, > nevertheless a reader might wonder why consider this special case, and > not the more general issue of embedding. I don't expect the primer to cover the general issues. I expect it to cover common cases that are known to work. This is one of them, I think (though I can't confirm from 1st-hand experience). > It's also not exactly an > "application" of RDF, or at least not a distinct one. There's an RDF > example in Section 21.3 of the SVG 1.1 spec, but this is an example of > using Dublin Core vocabulary, rather than a distinct application of RDF. > However, one possibility (not necessarily a substitute for talking > about it in Syntax) might be to add a paragraph to the Primer's Dublin > Core section noting that SVG example, pointing out that SVG provides an > explicit mechanism for embedding RDF metadata, and noting, for example, > that XMP (Adobe) is another example where people are making explicit > provision for incorporating RDF metadata for describing instances in > various data formats. Yes, please. > > --Frank -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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