I asked Wolfram Alpha: what is RDF? I would have been more impressed by Wolfram Alpha if at the end of its interpretation of my request, it asked me, “Was this answer correct? Was this answer complete? If not correct or complete, what do you consider RDF to be?” I then asked the same question of […]
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Google searchology-Rich Snippets
Google is currently having a live presentation on changes the company is making to search. The changes are quite significant, and very impressive. The one that caught my attention, though, is rich snippets. Google will now read and incorporate two open standards, microformats and RDFa, in its search results. So is annotating your page with microformats […]
I’m now a member of the HTML Working Group at the W3C, as an invited expert. I was rather surprised at how fast the membership was accepted. Surprised and faintly alarmed. I imagined existing members sitting around in the dark, rubbing their hands together and murmuring, “Ahh. Fresh meat.” I’ve been working with Philip in […]
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RDFa in Drupal core
While I’m in the process of looking more closely at the Microdata proposal, I wanted to note that today marked the end of the first day of the code sprint for incorporating RDFa into the core of Drupal 7. Yes, when Drupal 7 hits the streets, 1.7 million Drupal web sites, and counting, will have […]
I have discontinued my efforts to re-examine Ian Hickson’s semantic microdata use cases, as Ian has just published another use case, and added a microdata section to the HTML5 specification. (update see at end of writing) Announcement at WhatWG. New section in HTML5 draft. First glance: I am not an expert at RDFa, so read what I […]