The WhiteHouse.gov site is CC licensing all its material, and if you peek behind the covers (view source), you will see some RDFa. Granted it is a small start, but it is a start. Well done to the new administration and I look forward to more openness and more Web mashups!
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Theres a typo in the last line. “Lear more at the RDFa wiki.”
January 29th, 2009 at 11:46 am
If we’re pointing out typos, you misspelled ‘peek’
January 29th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
@jef2904 – thanks. @Usage police – thanks. Fixed. You both caught me on a bad day!
January 29th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
I’m so glad our President has embraced the new technologies of the web.
January 29th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
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January 29th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
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January 30th, 2009 at 6:10 am
Note that everything is actually Public Domain. The license notes that all third party content will be CC licensed unless otherwise specified. Anything produced by the Federal Government belongs to the taxpayers, and so goes public domain.
January 30th, 2009 at 10:49 am
President Obama uses RDFa…
The WhiteHouse.gov site is CC licensing all its material, and if you peek behind the covers (view source), you will see some RDFa….
January 30th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
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January 31st, 2009 at 10:52 am
Shame they decided to use underscores for URL’s :-(
February 2nd, 2009 at 7:03 pm
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February 4th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Shame they didn’t use re-directs for their old pages. Our website here at work has dozens of links to official docs that live on Whitehouse.gov. Once the new admin took over, we had dozens of broken links.
When you move official stuff, you should at least leave a re-direct.
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