Simon Willison’s Weblog

[whatwg] Annotating structured data that HTML has no semantics for. Hixie’s proposal for microdata, a simplified RDFa to be included in the HTML5 spec which allows self-contained communities to invent their own microformat-style spec and use it to add structured semantics to their markup. Whether or not you like the proposal itself the explanation is a fascinating read.

# 11th May 2009, 2:41 pm / html5, ian-hickson, markup, microdata, microformats, rdf, rdfa, semantics, whatwg

Introducing RDFa. A way of representing RDF triples in XML that doesn’t suck.

# 15th February 2007, 12:22 am / rdf, rdfa, xml