First Editors Draft of HTML5+RDFa Published

July 13, 2009 on 12:19 pm | In Development, Industry, Semantic Web | 3 Comments

This blog post was written by our Founder, Manu Sporny

HTML5+RDFa

The first public Editors Draft of RDFa for HTML5 was published earlier today. You can view the draft in two forms:

The blog post explains how this draft came to be, how it was published via the World Wide Web Consortium, and what it means for the future of RDFa and HTML5.

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3 Comments

  1. I’m very curious to learn what these mysterious use cases are that RDFa handles that microdata doesn’t, and even more curious to learn why nobody mentioned these use cases in the past year or so of my asking for use cases.

    Comment by Ian Hickson — July 13, 2009 #

  2. Hasn’t Shelley been going crazy with use-cases? Or was it that the use-cases could have been also solved with microdata?

    Comment by Michael Kozakewich — July 14, 2009 #

  3. @IanHickson

    The use cases that were not addressed are listed here:

    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/2009Jul/0038.html

    I will be responding to your e-mail reply to the list this week some time. There are a number of people, both in WHAT WG, HTML WG, and the RDFa TF, that believe that Microdata doesn’t address all of the use cases addressed by RDFa. In my response, I will point out specific instances of which use cases, why the Microdata-based solution isn’t viable, or why the Microdata solution differs only in personal preference.

    @MichaelKozakewich

    I haven’t seen any of Shelley’s use cases – do you have a link? The original set of RDFa use cases can be found here:

    http://rdfa.info/wiki/rdfa-use-cases

    There is a good bit of overlap between which use cases can be solved with Microdata and which use cases can be solved with RDFa.

    Comment by Manu Sporny — July 14, 2009 #

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