Archives for Category: Semantic Web

Powdering logos (again)

Quite a while ago I wrote a short blog on how to use the upcoming POWDER spec. The example was to create RDF triples expressing copyright information on Semantic Web logos. Lot has happened with POWDER since, and most of what I wrote in that blog is now technically outdated:-( So here is the updated example.

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Filed on September 5, 2008 8:54 PM in Semantic Web, Technology, Technology 101, W3C・QA News
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Make your Data Web Friendly

What does it mean to make your data Web friendly. A very simple introduction and a few links to explore and understand RDFa, a technology to easily create hyperlinked data.

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Filed on August 27, 2008 4:04 AM in Semantic Web, Technology 101, Tools
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The details of data in documents: GRDDL, profiles, and HTML5

GRDDL, a mechanism for putting RDF data in XML/XHTML documents, is specified mostly at the XPath data model level. Some GRDDL software goes beyond XML and supports HTML as she are spoke, aka tag soup. HTML 5 is intended to...

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Filed on August 22, 2008 7:45 PM in HTML, Semantic Web, Web Architecture, XML
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The Digital Stakhanovite

Designing a technology that will accomodate our social contexts of the digital Stakhanovite is a big challenge, far to be simple to solve.

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Filed on August 18, 2008 2:18 AM in Accessibility, HTML, Opinions & Editorial, Semantic Web
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Pleasure of Reading Tech Blog Posts

Tech blog posts offer sometimes gems for reading. Here a selection of articles, I have been reading, by Robert O'Callahan, John Resig, and Michael Sperberg-McQueen.

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Filed on July 24, 2008 7:55 AM in CSS, HTML, Opinions & Editorial, SVG, Semantic Web
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RSS 1.0 and RDFa

How do you express a feed using RDFa in a plain XHTML page? A proposal…

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Filed on July 15, 2008 3:32 AM in Semantic Web, Tools
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The War of the Worlds

Some people are amazing, they are creators. They make complex things, beautiful and simple. They make the world a place of exploration and discovering.

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Filed on June 27, 2008 7:27 AM in HTML, Opinions & Editorial, Semantic Web, W3C Life
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Update of the RDFa distiller

Published of a new version of the pyRdfa software (i.e., RDFa distiller) with new features, most notably the ability to parse “tag soup” HTML and/or HTML5.

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Filed on June 23, 2008 10:44 AM in Semantic Web, Technology, Tools
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Semantic Desktop in KDE 4.0 on Linux

Semantic Web based desktop system in Linux using KDE 4.0…

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Filed on May 27, 2008 12:28 PM in Semantic Web, Technology
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We, Robots Like Music Too

BBC is offering their data under many forms. Their Radio Labs just released a new way to access to their schedule in many formats.

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Filed on May 14, 2008 5:24 AM in Opinions & Editorial, Semantic Web
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How to add RDF information to a page using RDFa?

The Semantic Web Activity home page has a number of information that might be of interest for the Semantic Web (eg, for data integration). These should be made these available in RDF, too. How to do that without duplicating information? RDFa is your friend…

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Filed on May 1, 2008 10:00 AM in Semantic Web, Technology 101, Tutorials
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Proposed Activity for Video on the Web

W3C organized a workshop on Video on the Web in December 2007 in order to share current experiences and examine the technologies (see report) and is now following up with a proposal for a Video on the Web activity.

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Filed on April 15, 2008 3:29 PM in Accessibility, HTML, HTTP, Semantic Web, Technology, Video, W3C・QA News, Web Architecture
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Telephone Game about the Semantic Web

I'm no Mark Twain, but reports of Google's demise are greatly exaggerated. Today Tim Berners-Lee pointed me to this headline in the Times Online: "Google could be superseded, says web inventor." This, in turn, has morphed into more ominous restatements...

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Filed on March 13, 2008 7:30 PM in Opinions & Editorial, Semantic Web
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Open data, you and me

Semantic Web Data portability and open data are hot topics these months. The multiplication of social network sites has increased the aggregation of these data in silos. The Semantic Web activity encourages to open your data with a new series of cute logo. Geographical data such as the Open Street Map initiative, government budget such as USA are the trend. But when it comes to our personal data, we need more granularity.

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Filed on January 7, 2008 1:04 AM in Opinions & Editorial, Semantic Web
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RDFa and HTML imagemap

RDFa is a way to enrich your Web pages with local data. The clear benefit is that your data are in context and then easier to manage. Yesterday, on the RDFa mailing list, Dan Brickley asked how we could use RDFa to extract the information of an HTML imagemap.

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Filed on January 6, 2008 8:57 PM in HTML, Semantic Web, Technology 101
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Semantic Web is a lot of fun

W3C released new Semantic Web logos, with a rather restrictive policy. The Web community let us know about it in the best possible way: humor and parody. W3C smiles and listens.

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Filed on October 22, 2007 1:08 AM in Opinions & Editorial, Semantic Web, W3C Life
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