The document discusses the need for a semantic editor that makes inserting semantic content as easy as inserting pictures or formatting text. It notes that most content management systems treat HTML as a "black box" without analyzing its actual meaning. The semantic editor would allow content to be edited and annotated with meaning using RDFa, addressing both using RDFa to make content human-editable and semantically annotating existing content. This would help move past just filling out forms to define content and instead embed semantics directly into content.

1. Semantic Editor
The Way Forward from Tag Soup

2. Salzburg IKS Workshop

3. Semantic Editor?
...an editor that makes inserting semantic content
as easy as inserting a picture or making text bold

4. HTML is not a black box
Not HTML
• Most CMSs treat
HTML content as
“black box”
• We clean it but don't
analyze it
• Actual meaning of
content is outside of
content and managed
by forms

5. Don't you all just love filling forms?

6. The story so far
http://aloha-editor.com/

7. The story so far
Semantic Editor hackathon in Helsinki, July 2010

8. Two sides of semantic editing
• Using RDFa to make • Semantic annotation
content editable of content
Henri Bergius, Haymo Meran,
Nemein Gentics
http://semantic-editor.org/

9. Using RDFa to make content editable
• Example: Midgard CMS Aloha integration
• Idea:
• Single JS include to load whole CMS UI
• Tell CMS what to make editable via RDFa

10. Semantic annotation of content