Differences between version 3 and predecessor to the previous major change of RDF.
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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Sunday, March 7, 2004 1:48:53 am | by WikiAdmin | Revert |
| Older page: | version 2 | Last edited on Sunday, March 7, 2004 1:32:56 am | by PerryLorier | Revert |
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Unfortunately [RDF] is in it's infancy, it's an extremely flexible language, but best practises haven't really been established yet[1]. Many of the common schema's are still in a state of flux, and noone's quite sure what predicates to use for things or how to use various predicates.
People complain that [RDF] (And in particular [FOAF]) are a violation of our privacy. However, in at least my humble opinion, [FOAF] isn't about "the ultimate social network" replacing [Orkut|http://www.orkut.org], it's about having a mechanism to talk about a person. For instance, it's common to publish a document, and include in it contact details about the author (their name, their email address and perhaps home page). Writing this as [RDF] means that computers can read this information too. You can search documents by author, or "post" a reply to a document without having to manually cut and paste the information out. DashBoard is an example of this concept.
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+Another problem at the moment is that there is no obvious way to embed [RDF] data in a web page, just link to it as an alternate, or a related document. Ooops.
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[1]: Recently the [W3C] formed a Best Practises Working group to address this problem.
