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May 28, 2010

Self-documenting vocabularies using RDFa

Filed under: Semantic Web,Work Related — Ivan Herman @ 18:17
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This was one of the use cases some of us had in mind when RDFa was being developed, and it is nice to see that happening in practice… Olaf Hartig and Jun Zhao have recently published a provenance vocabulary. I am not knowledgeable enough to get into the detail of the provenance part. However, what also caught my attention is the way the vocabulary is defined: it is using XHTML+RDFa. So, while the URI above leads to a nice XHTML version of the vocabulary, readable by humans, the same source can also be used to get to the formal, RDF version of the vocabulary. Just use a distiller or extractor of any kind. I.e., do not repeat yourself, even when defining a formal vocabulary… I find this cool.

December 9, 2008

Zemanta and the Linked Data Cloud…

A few weeks ago I blogged on Open Calais and the Linked Data Cloud. I just received a comment on that blog:

Hi Herman,

yes, today Zemanta’s API officially stopped flying low on the radar and was released to wider public.

It does support RDF output, links to Linking Open Data entities and has properly defined namespace:

http://www.zemanta.com/api/

which is great! B.t.w., just as a pure coincidence, a new SW Use Case was published yesterday on Faviki, one of Zemanta’s user…

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