Manu Sporny has followed up on his Semantic Web for Noobs video presentation with one covering the basics of RDFa. RDFa provides a standard way to embed RDF data in HTML documents and allows RDF to be used as semantic markup for the text that people see. The “a” in RDFa stands for attribute and is part of the name because the RDF information is embedded as attributes to standard HTML elements.

It’s not intended that average Web content creators will enter the RDFa markup by hand any more than it’s expected that they enter HTML markup. Rather, the RDFa will be added by HTML editors, embedded in page templates, or generated by programs.

The RDFa specification is being developed by the W3C’s Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and is described in the RDFa Primer

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