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hCalendar will be gone from /programmes by the next deploy (probably this Thursday). In the meantime we'll be looking at the possible use of RDFa (a slightly bigger S semantic web technology similar to microformats but without some of the more unexpected side-effects).

# We suggest publishers who have currently no markup to adopt either RDFa (which will be soon picked up the Yahoo! crawler) or eRDF (which is already available from the search index). RDFa is a specification backed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and it is supported by a wide range of tools, but eRDF has been around longer - so we wanted to support both.

Public domain English translations of 16th-century biographies of 15th-century Italian painters are not the class of content that Calais was optimized for.

Well, now, after aggregating Semantic Web data about my music collection (using these tools), I can sort hip-hop artists by murder rates in their city :-)

There are three components to this open ecosystem: * Site owners share structured data with Yahoo!, using semantic markup (microformats, RDF), standardized XML feeds, APIs (OpenSearch or other web services), and page extraction.

how to set up the environment so that the right URI-s would lead to the right format, ie, either HTML or RDF.

added RDFa, making Digg part of the “semantic web” where Web pages become more sophisticated, beyond simply words and pictures.

A new issue is published every working day with 300-500 official notices. … the London Gazette is adopting RDFa to semantically mark up their pages.

This is a vocabulary collection utilized by XHTML Family modules and document types using XHTML Modularization, including XHTML Role and XHTML RDFa as defined in rdfa-syntax.

RDFa is proving to be easier to implement and therefore actually used by Yahoo!, it stands to reason that RDFa should prevail as the format for Bibleref. Open standards are always great, but only the ones that have a useful purpose are worth pursuing.

support vocabulary components from Dublin Core, Creative Commons, FOAF, GeoRSS, MediaRSS,

A place where you can learn about RDFa, get help on implementing RDFa on your website or blog, and take part in the development of the community and the standard!

If Massachusetts pursues enriching our content, RDFa seems a more likely candidate. We prefer to adopt things that have been created and promulgated by standards bodies: they are more stable, the deliberative process surfaces and resolves problems beforehand, and are the only reliable basis for interoperability.

RDFa, en s'appuyant sur RDF, permet la réutilisation de tous les vocabulaires existants, ainsi que les ressources déjà disponibles.

The new experimental Yahoo Microsearch supports RDFa marked-up pages.