Archive for August 2007

RDFa in the wild

We started to gather applications on the Web that utilise RDFa. Have a look at the RDFa in the wild page and do not hesitate do contact us if you encounter a new Semantic Web application that uses RDFa (or maybe you want to announce your own?)


Joost Using RDFa on Website

Joost — TV over the internet from the makers of Skype — have started using RDFa on their website to classify programs available on their system. For instance, go to http://www.joost.com/0440008, and do a view source, and you will see RDFa attributes being used to describe the program.

For a longer exposition, see Mark Birbeck’s post at http://internet-apps.blogspot.com/2007/07/rdfa-used-in-joost.html.


Operator 0.8 available

Thanks to Mike Kaply Operator 0.8 is now available. Operator is a Firefox plugin supporting all kinds of metadata in HTML (microformats, eRDF, RDFa). Try it out !


W3C HTML+RDFa Validator

So, after some beta-testing, the W3C Markup Validation Service is now available in a stable version. This validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, and: XHTML+RDFa … try it out!

In case you successfully pass the validation, you’ll be rewarded with an icon stating that you have produced valid XHTML + RDFa.
You can then choose between two versions:

Valid XHTML + RDFa or Valid XHTML + RDFa

PS: In case you need some material to play around, have a look at the RDFa Test Case repository.