Hi Ben, Thanks for the pointers! That clears things up a bit. Let me know when your RDFa tool set is mature and I'll make Exhibit generate RDFa. :-) In the meantime, I'd be interested in helping out on a convincing pitch / scenario if you think that's useful...
David Ben Adida wrote: > David Huynh wrote: > [...] > >> Exhibit, in particular, is in the unique position of being able to >> address publishing needs in many domains (whereas other SW publishing >> frameworks focus primarily on single domains like publications or >> contact information). >> > Yes! > >> The exhibits we have seen [2] are a testimony to >> this claim--they show the long tail of structured data. Perhaps it is >> Exhibit's unique position that we can use to compare RDFa with ... >> microformats ... :-) >> > Absolutely. > >> Calories can be spent to make Exhibit generate RDFa. But I'm interested >> in knowing the story that follows: >> >> 1. Once every exhibit serves up RDFa, then what? How can a naive user >> benefit from that? What tools comparable to Operator for microformats >> [3] does RDFa have to appeal to end users? If there is no tool yet, is >> there any plan for them? >> > This is purely a time-and-resources issue: we are developing various > tools that parse RDFa and let you do interesting things, but we're not > at the level of Operator yet. Of course, the so-called extensible > framework for parsing microformats is going to make a *lot* more sense > with RDFa... but that requires work. > > I have an RDFa clipboard demo that is still very rough. I'll post it > when it's a bit more ready for public consumption. > >> 2. Even when there are tools for collecting RDFa and doing something >> with it, can those tools demonstrate, concretely through realistic >> sample scenarios, RDFa's superiority over microformats? >> > I think you'll see far more variety of metadata in RDFa, though for the > end-user, the difference at first is going to be hard to tell. The main > issue is, as you've pointed out, the long tail of metadata: can you > express any metadata you want, letting the "good metadata" rise to the > top? The web can be a lot more than a distributed calendar and address > book. The benefit of RDFa is not as clear *today* to the end user as it > will be tomorrow. That's what makes it hard to pitch >> On behalf of naive users, I'm very fuzzy on those two issues, so any >> pointer would be great! :-) >> > I hope this helped a bit, and I'm happy to continue the conversation. > > -Ben > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
