http://simonwillison.net/2009-05-11T14:41:17+00:00Simon Willison2009-05-11T14:41:17+00:002009-05-11T14:41:17+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/May/11/microdata/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-May/019681.html">[whatwg] Annotating structured data that HTML has no semantics for</a></strong></p> Hixie’s proposal for microdata, a simplified RDFa to be included in the HTML5 spec which allows self-contained communities to invent their own microformat-style spec and use it to add structured semantics to their markup. Whether or not you like the proposal itself the explanation is a fascinating read. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/html5">html5</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ian-hickson">ian-hickson</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/markup">markup</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/microdata">microdata</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/microformats">microformats</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rdf">rdf</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rdfa">rdfa</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/semantics">semantics</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/whatwg">whatwg</a></p>

2007-02-15T00:22:10+00:002007-02-15T00:22:10+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Feb/15/rdfa/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/02/14/introducing-rdfa.html">Introducing RDFa</a></strong></p> A way of representing RDF triples in XML that doesn’t suck. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rdf">rdf</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rdfa">rdfa</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xml">xml</a></p>