OO Writer is the word processor --- On Tue, 3/23/10, Gannon Dick <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Gannon Dick <[email protected]> > Subject: Web Pages and Linked Meta Data > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 5:23 PM > When the web was young, there was a > very good reason that HTML was structured so. With > just a few minutes instruction, one could produce a rich > text web page. Meta Data, was made optional, and > "hidden" in a browser because it was only critical for > engineering. E-Mail "Full Headers" are still a mystery > to some. Lest we forget, Web Pages were designed to > make certain people piles of money. This hidden headers > model helps that process along too. The assumption is > that you don't own what you can't see. > > Several ways of dealing with the special requirements of > Meta Data have been developed in the meantime, RDF, RDFS, > DC, SKOS, OWL, FOAF, etc.. Today, there is a different > sort of "critical engineering" problem, and this time it > affects web page authors. The hidden header model is > not such a good way to look at a web page any more. > Privacy issues lead to a reluctance to add linking data and > the lack of connection to the abstractions OWL, SKOS etc. > makes them less "author friendly". > > I have a word-processor to web page meta data centric model > with an end to end validation test (by XSD). Since the > "backbone" is HTML, the browser display is mostly unchanged. > The document is a dctype "Dataset" the head is a > skos:Collection of rdf:Properties and the body elements > cite,address,abbr, etc. are all styled in a "Citation" class > (or a "Redaction" class, because some people talk too > much). "Working" elements are marked as owl:sameAs to > their respective rdf:Property or rdfs:Class, or DC Term in > both the <head> and <body>. This is a > necessary first step to the solution of the Semantic Web > Engineering problem now that Internet Web Pages are a fact. > > > HTML 5, as proposed, uses the same basic hidden header > document model. And each section has particular > instructions for conversion to RDF. It is still > solving the other web architecture engineering problem. > > Normally I would just post this and let people find > it. However, since this is a fork from one of the > earliest assumptions of the Internet ... > > A fully worked example is available for the asking: > gannon_dick AT yahoo.com > > --Gannon > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
