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RDF is a superior format (Score:1)

by hex (3272) on 2007.11.08 7:54 (#58896) Homepage Journal

Aaron's use of RDF/N3 that you linked to is fascinating. He's integrated Dublin Core [dublincore.org] terms with DOAP [usefulinc.com] plus a "changefile" vocabulary of his own invention (although the schema for it seems yet to be written).
The use of RDF as a change format has numerous benefits. A large amount of work has already put into constructing metadata vocabularies in it, which saves us from reinventing a big wheel with some crufty format based on YAML (as acme pointed out [perl.org], YAML is a failed format). RDF is also expressable in different forms: you can take the N3 as linked above and transform it to XML, and then almost everything can read it; or you can apply XSLT to the XML and transform it into something else (like the traditional "Changes" format). It's flexible and powerful.

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  by miyagawa (1653)
  
  I agree that it's a great format, but for most people it's painful to write.
  
  I'm also interested in the way microformats solve the RFC pain in XHTML, so that they use a rough standard in CSS class names or link@rel etc. so that we can automatically translate these XHTML into RDF later. Can we take a similar approach to that?

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