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Ben Adida
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9 meses atrás
in RDFa Trials and Travails on Play the Web
Hi Rob,
I just noticed that your link to the RDFa Primer is to a 1-year-old draft. Have you checked out the latest version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/
It should be much simpler and easier to understand.
One important issue it does NOT address is the creation of new vocabularies, in part because that's a fairly advanced topic. That said, your feedback on the recent RDFa Primer would be super helpful.
I just noticed that your link to the RDFa Primer is to a 1-year-old draft. Have you checked out the latest version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/
It should be much simpler and easier to understand.
One important issue it does NOT address is the creation of new vocabularies, in part because that's a fairly advanced topic. That said, your feedback on the recent RDFa Primer would be super helpful.
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Yes, I noticed the newer version, and that vocabularies are no longer mentioned in it. I whole-heartedly agree that vocabularies are an advanced topic and the primer might not be the best place to describe them, but I still think they need an entry point that's a little more accessible than what currently exists.
What I'd *love* to see is something along the lines of what I mention at the end of this post - a set of "gold standard" tools (validators and parsers) that developers can use to let them know that they're on the right track without needing to grok the entire RDFa specification.
I like the primer overall. I think it does a good job of showing the reason for RDFa and then gives just enough information to get a vague idea of the practice. You've no doubt come across this video tutorial which contains about the same level of information:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldl0m-5zLz4
But it's easy to digest... Oohh, flashing lights! ;)
I don't think we should underestimate the issue of accessiblity. I see RDFa as reaching out to the "normal" world from the somewhat-airy heights of RDF. It needs to be a welcoming handshake to bring people on board.
Cheers.