d4d Boston RDF

MIT Campus, Cambridge Mass. The time is 2:00pm and the delay of hardware issues is hindering our presenter, Ben , @i3iviivi, on Resource Description Framework(s) or RDFa.

So far the highlight of our Design for Drupal event for me is this very topic. The idea categories and mark up can be just as importnat as the information inside of it. This is not Micro-Format. This information mapping system that will define for computers and search engines what data is being read.

Definitively creating definitions for intelligent search, that creates relationships between data and the people that publish it. Having this sort of definition set will make information (webpages) act more like mini databases and make the people who publish information more responsible for what they do. Or at least, that is the intent. Some might look at this as a way to pry open the door to ambiguity or user privacy.

EVOC a module, for Drupal, that was developed to create the relationship of data on your website to standards in RDF that are already defined on the web. openspring.org Originally, Drupal had been designed output both RSS and RDFa content.

FUZZ is a Firefox plug in that will display the available RFDa info from a page that has RDF meta information embedded.

Here is a link to Ben’s Session at D4D.

http://agaric.com/rdfa

the Wiki for RDFa

interesting thoughts about the future of data. Zach