RDFa Wiki

From RDFaWiki

Jump to: navigation, search

Welcome to the RDFa community! A place where you can learn about RDFa, get help on implementing RDFa on your website or blog, and take part in the development of the community and the standard!

RDFa helps bloggers and website authors make their web pages smarter by adding computer-readable information to a site. Details about yourself, events, places, books, and music are just some of the "things" you can describe using RDFa. By adding RDFa to your website or blog, you help computers interact with your website in a way that is more helpful to people visiting your site. RDFa makes web browsers smarter by giving people more options when viewing a web page, such as adding you to their address book, adding an event to their calendar, getting directions to a place described by RDFa, or searching online bookstores for a book marked up using RDFa. There are many possibilities with RDFa and this community is dedicated to RDFa education, development, and advocacy.

RDFa Community Areas

The areas below can help you get started. The top row is for beginners, the middle row is for those familiar with RDFa and the bottom row is for experts.

Introduction
Learn RDFa basics 		Tutorials
RDFa cookbooks, recipes and guides 		Tools
Tools for creating, editing and browsing RDFa
Development
Software development 		Contributing
Contributing to this community 		Help
Mailing lists and IRC
Teaching
Teaching RDFa to others 		Advocacy
Advocating the use of RDFa 		Examples
Examples in the wild

News

Yahoo! Chats with Semantic Web Expert, Ben Adida
Over at the Yahoo Search Blog there is an interview with Ben Adida on RDFa, its development, and its future. [?]
UK National Archive Uses RDFa
After the UK Government publication The London Gazette (published since 1665), which we have already reported on, the next UK Government site reported to use RDFa is the UK National Archive. Another UK Government site is also soon to follow. Watch this space! [?]
RDFa is a Candidate Recommendation
A big milestone reached today for RDFa: we are now a candidate recommendation, which means it’s now a stable spec, ready for implementation. And of course, we already have a lot of implementations, so we expect this stage of the process to go well. [?]
Google Tech Talk on RDFa available
Mark Birbeck recently gave a Tech Talk at Google on the subject of RDFa. The talk begins with a detailed introduction to RDFa, and then looks at how RDFa can play a role in improving search, as well as enhancing the way that users can view information. A video of the talk is now available [...] [?]
RDFa support from Open Archives Initiative
The Open Archives Initiative, which “develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content”, has just published support for RDFa. [?]
SearchMonkey, again
A nice outline of metadata in HTML including SHOE, microformats, eRDF, and RDFa in the context of searching based on annotated Web content is available at ReadWriteWeb: Making the Web Searchable: The Story of SearchMonkey by Alex Iskold. [?]
More about Yahoo SearchMonkey
I’ve written some thoughts on Yahoo’s SearchMonkey after having seen it live: Yahoo recently announced SearchMonkey, and for the first time in 10 years, I have a reason to switch search engines, from Google to Yahoo (In fact, I just did that in Firefox.) Most web-savvy engineers know that online services succeed in big ways when [...] [?]
BBC Backstage Covers Xtech
There was lots of talk about RDFa at the XTech conference. Amongst the attendees was Ian Forrester of BBC Backstage, who recorded some talks, and interviewed some attendees, including: Steven Pemberton’s talk Why You Should Have a Website, which covers reasons for needing RDFa An interview with Mark Birbeck on XForms and RDFa An interview with Steven Pemberton [...] [?]
More on Digg?s RDFa Support
Digg’s RDFa support is covered in BetaNews. Bob DuCharme is quoted, and the RDFa highlighter is referenced. [?]
?Why you should have a website?
At 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. [?]

Special Projects

Retrieved from "http://rdfa.info/wiki/RDFa_Wiki"
Personal tools