Category Archives: Microformat and Mark-up

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.

Also posted in General Discussion, 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…

Also posted in Events, RDFa, Semantic Web

Web Licensing Needs to Be More Granular

By David Gratton on September 9, 2008

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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.

Also posted in Events, General Discussion

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.

Also posted in Licensing & Attribution

Ubiquity Illustrates Impressive Thinking and the Need for Attribution Microformat

By David Gratton on August 27, 2008

The net was a buzz with with Aza Raskin’s post on Ubiquity: An experiment into connecting the Web with language.

Also posted in Events, Licensing & Attribution, Technology Innovation
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