: [whatwg] RDFa Problem Statement (was: Creative Commons Rights
Expression Language)
The Microformats community, and all communities like it, require a group
of people to come together, collaborate and create a standard vocabulary
to express ALL semantics. A somewhat strained analogy would be bringing
Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
Web browsers are (hopefully) designed so that they run in every culture. If
you define a custom vocabulary without considering its ability to describe
phenomena of other cultures and try to impose it worldwide, you do more harm
than good to the representatives of
Kristof Zelechovski wrote:
Web browsers are (hopefully) designed so that they run in every culture. If
you define a custom vocabulary without considering its ability to describe
phenomena of other cultures and try to impose it worldwide, you do more harm
than good to the representatives of
I'm really glad Manu's explanation was helpful. Thanks Manu!
I don't want to interrupt this useful thread, I'll only contribute one
piece of information in the form of an example application:
Is this something that users actually want? How would this actually work?
[...]
It would be
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Ben Adida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's one example. This is not the only way that RDFa can be helpful,
but it should help make things more concrete:
http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/
Using semantic markup in HTML (microformats and, soon, RDFa),
Greg Houston wrote:
I am not sure if Ben was eluding to this in the last paragraph, but to
further complicate things SearchMonkey is not actually using RDF,
I think you're confusing two different layers.
SearchMonkey parses HTML with microformats, and soon HTML+RDFa, and
makes that data
Ben Adida wrote:
Greg Houston wrote:
I am not sure if Ben was eluding to this in the last paragraph, but to
further complicate things SearchMonkey is not actually using RDF,
I think you're confusing two different layers.
SearchMonkey parses HTML with microformats, and soon HTML+RDFa, and
Ian,
I am addressing these questions both personally and as a representative
of our company, Digital Bazaar. I am certainly not speaking in any way
for the W3C SWD, RDFa Task Force, or Microformats community.
Ian Hickson wrote:
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Manu Sporny wrote:
Web browsers currently do
Dan Brickley wrote:
Ben Adida wrote:
Greg Houston wrote:
I am not sure if Ben was eluding to this in the last paragraph, but to
further complicate things SearchMonkey is not actually using RDF,
I think you're confusing two different layers.
SearchMonkey parses HTML with microformats, and
Ian Hickson wrote:
I have no idea what problem RDFa is trying to solve. I have no idea what
the requirements are.
Ian, this is not an official response from the RDF in XHTML Task Force
or the Semantic Web Deployment Workgroup. It is a personal attempt to
outline some of the problems that RDFa
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