Category Archives: RDFa

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, Microformat and Mark-up

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, Microformat and Mark-up, Semantic Web

The Need for an Attribution Trail

By David Gratton on August 25, 2008

When content is being reused from one source to another, etiquette and ethics would insist that the content creator (the person reusing content) provide clear attribution and links to the original content while obeying the content’s license.
When searching for an example of proper attribution, I had to go no further than Miss 604’s blog, aka [...]

Also posted in Ethical Reuse, Events, Licensing & Attribution, Microformat and Mark-up, Technology Innovation
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