Simon
I'm the dev behind TheyWorkForYouLocal.com (which has just gone online
as an early-stage/proof-of-concept project), and fairly high up on my
todo list is making sure the HTML is structured via microformats or RDFa
(there's already XML/json access to all data).
I've used microformats before, so am fairly comfortable with that, but
have been thinking about using RDFa for this project -- partly as a
learning experience, and partly because (based on what little I know
about RDFa) I'm thinking it might make more sense as only a fraction of
the data falls into microformat-type, er, formats of the data and partly
because I'm thinking that public data like this may already have some
sort of RDFa schema (if that's the right expression0.
If you can point me in the right direction for RDFa stuff, that'd be great.
Cheers
C
Simon Gibbs wrote:
Hi Guys
I have it on good authority that joining the list, and immediately
starting a new thread is a good way to volunteer. I think some people
will recognise me anyway from ORG-discuss and the London Hack Space*, so
I'll skip introductions as well, just to make sure I break enough rules
of netiquette ;-)
So anyway... this week Tim Berners-Lee published some design notes
regarding his discussions with US and UK governments about putting data
on-line. They essentially say "Raw Data Now!" and "Linked Data!!". The
long version is here:
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/GovData.html
I've been learning, tinkering with and occasionally advocating Linked
Data, SPARQL, RDFa etc for a while and have been using it in anger too
with boring work projects and wrt Search Monkey.
Should you be called upon to assist Government folk with this kind of
thing and find you need someone to do the actual work then count me in.
I should be at the The Hub for the next hack evening if you want to quiz
me in person.
thanks
Simon Gibbs
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