More on Digg’s RDFa Support
May 3rd, 2008Digg’s RDFa support is covered in BetaNews. Bob DuCharme is quoted, and the RDFa highlighter is referenced.
“Why you should have a website”
May 1st, 2008At the Xtech conference next week, Steven Pemberton will be presenting his paper “Why you should have a website”.
The talk discusses some of the inherent problems with Web 2.0, and how RDFa can be used to overcome them.
The London Gazette to use RDFa
May 1st, 2008The London Gazette is the UK Government’s Official Journal and Newspaper of Record, published since 1665. A new issue is published every working day with 300-500 official notices.
At her talk SemWebbing the London Gazette at the forthcoming XTech conference, Jeni Tennison will explain how the London Gazette is adopting RDFa to semantically mark up their pages.
Authoring RDFa from within a Wiki
April 24th, 2008Bryan Lawrence had some thoughts on authoring RDFa in a Wiki. I’m quite excited to see this kind of development and looking forward seeing results in form of plug-ins, extensions, etc. - anyone else out there who has a concrete implementation available?
RDFa Tutorial at WWW2008
April 20th, 2008There’s an RDFa tutorial at WWW2008 in Beijing in just a few hours, with Ivan Herman, Elias Torres, and Ben Adida doing the teaching.
Fuzzbot supports RDFa
April 15th, 2008“Fuzzbot is a native Firefox plug-in that uses librdfa for its processing back-end. It is most useful for detecting embedded semantic information in web pages and performing actions on that semantic data.”
Digg starts using RDFa
April 4th, 2008Correspondents have pointed out that Digg has started using RDFa. Going to look I see such things as:
<h3><a href="http://www..." rel="dc:source" property="dc:title">
Headline
</a></h3>
Great stuff!
I got 71 triples from their home page when I tried.
Reminder: RDFa Syntax Last Call Comments Due this Week
March 19th, 2008Just a gentle reminder that the last call period for the RDFa Syntax document ends this week, Friday 21st March.
New Edition of RDFa Primer Published
March 19th, 2008A new edition of the RDFa Primer has been published. This brings it into line with the latest draft of the RDFa Syntax specification.
“Why RDFa is the only Web scaleable metadata format for next-generation search engines”
March 17th, 2008David Peterson gives a good analysis of what Yahoo’s announcement means for sites wanting to get semantic information into search results.