New RDFa bookmarklet: Extract N3
For semantic web folks, RDFa is just another way to write RDF. And for many people, RDF should be written in N3. Okay, fair enough.
Introducing: the N3 extraction bookmarklet. On any HTML page, click the bookmarklet: you’ll get an N3 extraction of the RDFa on the page. You’ll even get this with the right MIME type, text/rdf+n3. In addition, the page content stays local, which is important for privacy. You can find this bookmarklet at our bookmarklet page.
This has only been tested on Firefox/Mozilla so far. It doesn’t work on Safari, yet, and hasn’t been tested on IE or Opera. But we’re working on it!
(At the same time, we fixed a small bug in the RDFa javascript library, regarding the display of compact URIs. This fix will automatically trickle down to all other bookmarklets when your cache expires. No functionality change, just a bug fix, so the URLs for the bookmarklets stayed the same.)
May 27th, 2006 at 5:31 pm
try your rdfa bookmarklet on the front page of my previous employer at http://www.miko.com.hk/ and then you’ll know a problem of the bookmarklet.
the idea of bookmarklet is good but i am discouraged from security concerns..
May 28th, 2006 at 11:15 pm
The bookmarklet seems okay on the page you mention, can you describe the problem you’re seeing, and the browser you’re using?
I understand your concern about bookmarklet security, though you can, of course, check out the source code and see exactly what they’re doing. The bookmarklets never send data back to any other location, they only act locally. Note also that this is a proof of concept implementation. We expect that browser plugins will provide the functionality in the long term.