Author Archives: Rob Linton

Using RDFa for Attribution and licensing

By Rob Linton on November 20, 2008

Well…  despite my complaining about RDFa, we have managed to cobble together something fairly easily.  Almost everything we need for the properties is found in the Dublin Core terms namespace.  We’ve taken a stab at writing a vocabulary document to define the extra attribution properties that can help systems track media over the Web.  Those [...]

Posted in Copyright, General Discussion

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

Getting the Ball Rolling: Formats for Licensing and Attribution

By Rob Linton on August 28, 2008

So even a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, right?  I think I heard that somewhere before…
With that in mind here’s some preliminary thinking on a licensing and attribution format.

Posted in Licensing & Attribution, Microformat and Mark-up
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