Archive for March 2009

MySpace using RDfa

Ben Adida points out in his posting Paris Hilton thinks RDFa is hot that MySpace has started using RDFa, and points to Paris Hilton’s page.


Slideshare is using RDFa

As Martin McEvoy has pointed out, Slideshare has started using RDFa.


RDFa in Drupal: Examples and Use Cases

Stephane Corlosquet has posted a video shown at DrupalCon this month demonstrating things you can do with RDFa and Drupal. Dries Buytaert (creator of Drupal) writes about it here.


RDFa extension For Dreamweaver

In this post, Martin McEvoy announes a new extension for Dreamweaver supporting RDFa:

I am proud to announce RDFa Documents extension For Dreamweaver versions 8 to CS4

RDFa Documents contans a HTML TagLibrary with RDFa attributes and a XHTML+RDFa 1.0 Document Type Declaration.

The Extension will be available via Adobe Exchange (soon), after its passed a review by Adobe’s QA

The Extension Makes RDFa available to any Layout or Template that supports HTML/XHTML, It is also possible to convert existing Documents to RDFa using the Dreamweaver conversion utility.

For Now you can download the RDFa Dreamweaver Extension at the following location:

http://weborganics.co.uk/files/RDFa-Documents.mxp.

There is also a tutorial.


Another US Government Website using RDFa

Quoting this posting:

“This followed another talk there by George Thomas, from the U.S. government website recovery.gov, on how the site will put information on the government’s economic stimulus spending into the semantic web and the Linked Open Data world via Atom, XHTML, and RDFa. (Very cool.)

The slides add XForms to this mix.