Over at WebBackplane, Mark Birbeck describes how the UK’s Central Office of Information has been generating RDF vocabularies via an open-source process, and then using those vocabularies to decorate their web pages. The blog demonstrates how they are being used to mark up job vacancies, and then how that information can be reliably scraped. Read more.
Another example of using the same jobs vocabulary is at Jobsgopublic.

[...] anyone can get their image metadata into Google Image Search? And the UK government who apparently can’t get enough of RDFa. This canard must end. There are many RDFa implementations in the real world by the Web’s [...]
25 Aug 2009 at 21:09