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Semantics

Arbitrary Vocabularies and Other Crufty Stuff

I went dumpster diving into the microformats IRC channel and found the following: singpolyma – Hixie: that’s the whole point… if you don’t have a defined vocabulary, you end up with something useless like RDF or XML, etc @tantek – exactly Hixie – folks who have driven the design of XML and RDF had “write a generic […]

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RDF Writing

Semantic irony

One of my books finally returns home. (via David Wood)

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Semantics

A battle of Beliefs: RDF, Natural Language Processing, and the future of the web

Last Week in HTML has been practicing its wicked ways, and pulled a quote from a comment I made to a post at Sam Ruby’s Ian is wrong. Absolutely, completely, and dead wrong. … rather than Ian shouting out “Hurrah!”, he says we must have five different solutions to the five problems, because to do otherwise is […]

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Diversity RDF W3C

The intent speaks louder than words

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I was thinking about taking a shot at writing my own use case or use cases for RDFa in HTML5 until I spotted the recent entry at Last Week in HTML. The site posts an excerpt from an IRC discussion related to the ongoing exchange about RDFa and HTML5. * […]

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Semantics

Pinky and the Markup Brains

What ended up being the ultimate irritation of my brief foray into HTML5 land, is that I found out, after careful perusal of my original use of RDFa, that I wasn’t using it incorrectly. However, by the time I got through listening to all the arguments, back and forth, and round and round, I was […]