Steve Harris wrote:
On 10 Jul 2009, at 14:31, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
Steve et. al,
If we are going to take the "how the Web was born" theme re. figuring
out the path forward, then what's wrong with RDFa? If people sort of
know how to write HTML, why not show them how to add rich metadata
via RDFa? That said, we have a deeper problem re. Linked Data, and in
my opinion it starts not fulling expressing the essence of the matter
with clarity. The fundamental issues are
RDFa doesn't generally solve the Syntax complexity problem.
It solves the "groking what your actually doing"problem for those who
author HTML docs.
Though, possibly RDFa documents that are not "nice" HTML (ie. not
really readable by humans) could be quite hacker-friendly. I've been
meaning to look into this.
RDFa is the best starting point for enhancing Metadata carried by an
HTML document. Once you understand that you are describing something,
and that you do so using Subject, Predicate, Object statements, the
essence of the matter is much much clearer.
Once high level annotation tools for embedding RDFa in HTML are
unleashed, this whole matter will become much clearer to a very broad
spectrum of Web users :-)
Kingsley
- Steve
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