On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Mikael Nilsson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Liddy,
>
> I agree about the usefulness of RDFa! It's a new spec, so we're still
> waiting for publishing tools etc to implement it.
It seems that beyond creation tools there need to be tools that make
use of RDFa when it is coded in a page. With a thought to human
nature, people will want a 'bang for the buck' -- are there any plans
for web apps that will use these? Even a small demonstration set could
be convincing, like adding some RDFa coded documents to one of the
semantic web demos.
I think what really killed off the meta tags was that there weren't
web applications that used them -- so people didn't see any gain from
the effort to code them.
kc
>
> I've seen a lot of discussion on W3C lists on HTML5 and RDFa, and I
> think there are many working on making that combination work.
>
> There's also been lots of discussion about WAI-ARIA,
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/ , which you probably want to look at even
> though I'm certainly no expert in the area.
>
> /Mikael
>
>
> sön 2009-01-04 klockan 09:06 +1100 skrev Liddy Nevile:
>> First - Happy and Safe New Year to everyone.
>>
>> I am wondering how many people have been using RDF/A to put their
>> metadata into the docs so that instead of just identifying something
>> as a heading, for example, it can be identified as the title (or
>> dc:title) and another bit of text as the author's name (dc:creator)
>> and affiliation and a particular link as a reference to the source
>> documents, etc?
>>
>> This is so much smarter than trying to bung stuff into a meta tag, it
>> seems to me - see http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/
>>
>> Problem, as I see it, is that this is a technique for those using
>> XHTML and most people are using HTML, and it is not part of valid
>> HTML. I am wondering if there is interest in this problem - if people
>> want to use RDF/A, surely it should be included in the new versions of
>> HTML? (HTML 5 is being developed right now.)
>>
>> I would like it a lot because it would also make it much easier for
>> people to do really significant and helpful things about
>> accessibility, tagging content for what it offers and helping people
>> find alternatives to content components that they cannot use...
>>
>> Liddy
>>
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