Hello Doug, Ben all
Doug Schepers wrote:
Hi, folks-
Ben Adida wrote (on 7/16/09 1:03 PM):
Here's my proposed alternative: use RDF/OWL for vocabulary mappings, and
add to RDFa only the ability to declare a default prefix.
Markup in the page:
<div about="#me" prefix="http://myvocab.org/#";>
My name is<span property="name">Ben Adida</span>
Sorry to bikeshed about this so early, but please reconsider the name
for the attribute @prefix. @prefix refers to the mechanism, not the
conceptual relation, and is not intuitive. RDFa should be designed
for people coming from the HTML world, not from the RDF/SemWeb world.
If you want to give people a set of semantic attributes that will be
easy for them to learn, understand, and remember, you should name the
attributes according to their function, not their form.
I suggest @context or @scope something similar,
or re-use something that already exists and make it into something at
least useful, @profile
<div about="#me" profile="http://myvocab.org/#";>
My name is<span property="name">Ben Adida</span>
because what the prefix does is to qualify a term according to a given
resource, right?
I don't think most Web developers know the "namespace prefix"
terminology, and without that jargon, @prefix could mean pretty much
anything.
Developers understand what @profile is used for (well a bit more than a
few anyway), and its also used (sometimes well OK then occasionally) by
microformat authors.
I like this proposal a lot good work Mark and Ben call it RDFa Simple.
just my 2c ;)
Best Wishes
--
Martin McEvoy
http://weborganics.co.uk/
