Comments on: RDFa is now a W3C Recommendation

By: Technikwürze » Technikwürze 121 - Webzeug

Technikwürze » Technikwürze 121 - Webzeug — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:07:46 +0000

[...] RDFa hat nun Recommendation-Status [...]

By: rascunho » Blog Archive » links for 2008-10-30

rascunho » Blog Archive » links for 2008-10-30 — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:17:19 +0000

[...] SitePoint Blogs » RDFa is now a W3C Recommendation There is a lot of work yet to be done in the educational materials on RDFa. The concentration has for so long been in getting the spec in order that the examples and howtos have suffered. (tags: http://www.sitepoint.com 2008 mes9 dia30 semantic_web RDFa microformats blog_post) [...]

By: Kdo způsobí zlom v historii mikroformátů? Microsoft aneb penetrace začíná - Martin Hassman: blog nejen o prohlížečích

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:30:07 +0000

[...] který i po mnoha letech zůstal doménou teoretiků s nulovým praktickým výsledkem. Dalším je RDFa, které sice lze prakticky použít, ale vinou své komplikované syntaxe jím zůstane většina [...]

By: david.seth.p

david.seth.p — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:44:04 +0000

@Anonymous, @Meitar the RDFa community does not want to re-invent the wheel. It is pretty well accepted that microformats and RDFa can and should be used together. Current best practice is to use microformats in areas that they are good at. As soon as you need more extensibility (more vocabs, grouping, etc) use RDFa.

The real beauty of them both is that all semantic extractors convert both formats to Semantic Web triples. Essentially any site that is using microformats now is a fully participating Semantic Web citzen! This is cool. Of course RDFa offers additional power and the ability to better describe your objects.

So it is a win win situation.

By: Meitar

Meitar — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:18:04 +0000

Definitely exciting! I hadn’t realized RDFa was so far along the standards track, but it’s nice to see that happen. The anonymous comment above asks a good question, though. RDFa or Microformats? If I’m not mistaken, it is possible to use both, correct? Microformats relies on overloading (X)HTML class attributes and RDFa uses its own attributes, so theoretically they shouldn’t conflict with one another.

Since RDFa is the (scalable) standard I would imagine it makes more sense to start replacing microformats with them, but its microformats that currently have the more widespread implementation. So, both?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:42:55 +0000

So what is better Microformats or RDFa? What should use?