Monthly Archives: September 2008

BarCamp Vancouver

By Rob Linton on September 29, 2008

Seamus and I presented a little about what we were doing at BarCamp Vancouver and we had a great time.  Many kudos to the people that made BarCamp such a success.

Posted in BarCampVancouver, Events, General Discussion

RDFa Trials and Travails

By Rob Linton on September 24, 2008

So I’ve spent the last few days trying to get my head around RDFa, and I gotta say, it’s not easy.  Excessive complexity is a charge often levelled against RDF and it’s something that RDFa was meant to mitgate.  Has it been successful in that?  I would say partially, yes.

Posted in General Discussion, Microformat and Mark-up, RDFa

Namespaces, Microformats, RDFa, HTML, XHTML

By Rob Linton on September 19, 2008

We were recently at Yahoo’s Hack Day and one of the presentations I attended was by the SearchMonkey guys.  What piqued my interest here was that the teaser paragraph talked about augmenting search results with the semantic web — e.g. Microformats, XSLT, RDFa, et al. Hmmm, sounds applicable…

Posted in Events, Microformat and Mark-up, RDFa, Semantic Web

Web Licensing Needs to Be More Granular

By David Gratton on September 9, 2008

<geek alert>
Presently, all the blogs I’ve looked at (I readily concede there are blogs that I have not looked at ) which assign a license to their content do it on a page or global level.

Posted in Events, General Discussion, Microformat and Mark-up
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