yes. and there's a list of people on meetup.com waiting for this type of thing.
On Aug 12, 4:13 pm, Juan Sequeda <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank Steven for pushing this to the RefreshAustin Community. Hopefully we > will get some traction. > > Pat, in the recent months, Yahoo and Google have announced that they are > starting to support RDFa markup for structured data. Actually Yahoo has been > doing it for almost a year now with Search Monkey. > > http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=99170http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/developer.html > > This is something huge because now there is an incentive for people to > starting "semantifying" their websites. Yelp, BestBuy are quick big shots > that come quickly to mind who are already marking up in RDFa their data. The > benefits of marking up your website is that search engines now know even > better what does the website mean, and can actually show it nicer in the > search results (hence the name Rich Snippets). This is going to be something > that SEO people are going to start working on. Yahoo has told me that they > are seeing an increase of 20% click through rate because results are shown > nicer thanks to the RDFa that they put on the page. > > Here is an example of how you can markup your business website, with > products and such, so it can be indexed by > Yahoo:http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_and_Yahoo_SearchMonkey > > Hopefully others in this community are curious about all this talk about > RDFa, Linked Data, etc. > > Juan Sequeda, Ph.D Student > Dept. of Computer Sciences > The University of Texas at Austinwww.juansequeda.comwww.semanticwebaustin.org > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Pat Ramsey <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's probably just me, but it sounds like you're getting more than just > > your feet wet with your resume. I've found crafting semantic XHTML to be > > nothing more complex than using tags for their intended purposes & writing > > valid code. > > Cheers! > > > Pat > > > On Aug 12, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Steven Harms wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I've been trying to get my feet wet in the semantic web world for > > about 6 months now but have always hit one of a few snags: > > > - Pedantry: Within minutes people who do understand it are quoting > > RFC's and W3C's and IOCC's at each other and make me feel like a > > moron. I then space out and check out twitter or facebook > > > - Boredom: The examples on the web all center on licensing (as a > > Creative Commons product), uh, well, cool and all, but what does that > > mean to me? > > > - Confusion: There are few good books on the matter > > > - Repetition: Everyone winds up modeling the stupid license example > > or the "Dublin core created by" example. Without some alternative > > examples to show the flexibility of the form how am I going to get a > > hang of this? > > > With all these virtues, what could possibly be holding back the > > semantic web's rise? > > > To mitigate this I created my resume (a practical example) in RDFa > > (that is, XHTML + semantic web markup hints, a practical format). My > > document both validates at the W3C, distills to RDF (the base language > > of the semantic web) and makes a really cool chart > > (http://stevengharms.com/resume.html > > , at the bottom, unless I broke it last night ;) ). > > > Juan Sequeda, the leader of the Semantic Web Austin group and I were > > talking about covering this topic in the Semantic Web Austin group. > > We thought it might be cool if SemWebAustin and RefreshAustin (and any > > other *Austins) could get together and help advance the dream of > > Austin as a place where the Web community is sharper than the average > > town re: semantic technology. > > > Would a group meeting like this work well with Refresh's charter? > > Would it be of interest? I would call the presentation "Creating web > > data that advances the Semantic Web: A guide for normal people who > > know (X)HTML minus academic tangents" . If it's not a good fit, I'll > > limit the audience to SemWebAustin, but thought hey, why not, more the > > merrier. > > > Steven > > > -- > > Pat Ramsey > > Web Design and Accessibility Specialist > > [email protected] > > @pat_ramsey > > > Code that works,… beautifully > >http://slash25.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
