RDF/A: embedding RDF in XHTML

Tim Finin, 2:17pm 1 February 2006

The W3C’s RDF-in-HTML task force has been wrestling with the problem developing recommended ways to embed RDF content in XHTML documents. I think that this is incredibly important as many of the use cases for the Semantic Web can benefit from documents that have both human and machine readable portions. RDF-in-HTML is actually a joint task force of the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment and HTML Working Groups. Last week, the task force released a new version of the primer on RDF/A, is a set of attributes used to embed RDF in XHTML. It’s a good document to read to get an idea of how this will work.

Categories: RDF, Semantic Web, Web, Web 2.0 Comments: 2

2 Responses to “RDF/A: embedding RDF in XHTML”

ryan king Says:
February 1st, 2006 at 10:03 pm
I think that this is incredibly important as many of the use cases for the Semantic Web can benefit from documents that have both human and machine readable portions

Why not one representation that can be read by both?
Tim Finin Says:
February 5th, 2006 at 5:22 pm
If I had to pick a universal representation, it might be natural language. Microformats is an interesting idea, but it’s not rich enough for many applications and does not have a well defined semantics. Of course, this could be an advantage!