CountCulture wrote: > Simon > Sorry -- was rushing out and couldn't think of the name. Yahoo's > Common Tag is what I was talking about: > http://www.ysearchblog.com/2009/06/11/new-common-tag-format/
Ah, OK. Well that depends on what you want to do, and I realise I made some assumptions about that which suddenly don't seem like great assumptions, but I'll share them to be clear. To state the obvious, tags describe a particular act - subjectively assessing the topic of something and making it more - but not totally - objective. Meeting minutes are the obvious use case for this application and certainly CommonTag would be richer* than relTag. You could create an AutoTag for every page and it wouldn't hurt, but you have loads of objective data hanging there like succulent fruit so tags don't strike me as sexy. There is an example you might want to look at, but I'll explain the relevant features anyway. Its the COI central jobs site, which was intended to be a big store of all public sector jobs. (Exactly the same thing is/was done for consultations by the way). http://webbackplane.com/mark-birbeck/blog/2009/04/23/more-rdfa-goodness-from-uk-government-web-sites he gave a presentation on this as well: http://webbackplane.com/mark-birbeck/blog/2009/06/slides-for-semtech2009-talk-on-rdfa In this case, the page about the job became one with the API. Doing a GET on the job page returned a representation that was both machine and human readable. It must have been very cheap because it was just a template tweak to complete the integration. Getting the jobs on the COI site was a case of doing GETs on ASPX, PHP and other kinds of page that already existed, all the same back end technology and human processes were retained. This was actually the kind of thing that I originally volunteered to help with, as it makes sense to do it at the Government side and it made sense to me that MySociety would be getting calls about doing it. Regardless, your pages are clearly data driven, come from a template, and are full of useful facts so when I saw them, I just assumed you wanted to expose those facts. You know, for people to experiment with. This is very straightforward given that people, organisations, documents, pages about people, authorship and memberships are in FOAF and this is the data you have. If this is old news, or otherwise makes sense, then say so, but if you like I can take a copy of a set of pages and mark them up in the way I had assumed so you can see what I'm on about. Simon * it's worth seeing Tantek Celik's objections to CommonTag: http://www.ysearchblog.com/2009/06/11/new-common-tag-format/#comment-20244
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