Daniel O'Connor wrote:
It is hard to accept their goals so far since they made up a new
vocabulary for RDFa instead of matching the FOAF support that
SearchMonkey gives, and the URI's they provide for don't contain valid
top level domain names when the RDFa properties are joined with the
prefixes so it looks a little weird when you actually serialise it to
RDF.
What it looks like to me is they started with hcard, went off,
implemented support for that, along the way discovered rdfa, thought
"Neat! I bet I could do a vcard in this!" and ended up here.
It feels like a 20% project which isn't quite up to the usual
standard, and they've given these guys a bit of free reign to play
with the idea.
I'd prefer to assume innocent intentions and fumbling rather than
malicious intent.
All,
I desperately hope that you can see the Google is providing a huge
opportunity to showcase Linked Data meme value. Again, so what -- if
they don't use existing vocabularies? What matters is that they are
using RDFa to produce structured data, and that is simply huge!!!
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Regards,
Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
President & CEO
OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
