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RDFa: What happens when web-pages get smart?

by Mark Birbeck

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This talk was given at Web Directions South 2009, on October 9th. ...

This talk was given at Web Directions South 2009, on October 9th.

The session introduced RDFa, and then posed the question, what happens when web-pages get smart?, as a way to look at the many benefits that arise from putting data into web pages.

Topics range from vertical search in specialist spheres such as chemistry, through searching for images and videos that have a particular license, to samples showing how to enrich the user interface with Tweets and book covers.

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RDFa: What happens when web-pages get smart? Presentation Transcript

RDFa and what happens when web-pages get smart?

Putting data into web-pages

Feel free to take my images under the <a href="http://creative.../by/3.0/" >CC 'by' license</a>.

Feel free to take my images under the <a rel="license" href="http://creative.../by/3.0/" >CC 'by' license</a>.

What happens when web-pages get smart?

Improved search

Improved search • Precise meaning means better indexing. • Additional data means more axes to search along. • Additional data also makes for better search interface.

Precise meaning means better indexing

@mariecurie

...electron pairs in benzene might be located...

...will be starting tomorrow.

Additional data means more axes to search along

More on Google license search • http://bit.ly/38lbsU

"[With RDFa] when you copy and paste an object from the web the copyright information comes along with it." Joi Ito, CC

Additional data makes for better search interface

Aside: Own your own data with RDFa

Product information

More on ecommerce and RDFa • Good Relations at http://bit.ly/xAeD1

Owning our own data is disruptive

Enrich user interface

...electron pairs in benzene might be located...

<div typeof="v:Review"> Title: Chanda’s Secrets Stars: ***** I reviewed Stratton's newest teen novel... </div>

Mark Birbeck’s Twitter account name is markbirbeck and Ben Adida’s is benadida.

Single extension point • RDFa allows us to express any data • Creates possibility of a generic binding technique

Who else is using RDFa?

Static page ASP.NET Who knows?

• http://webBackplane.com/rdfa • http://webBackplane.com/mark-birbeck • http://rdfa.info • http://linkeddata.org