Fw: Web Pages and Linked Meta Data
Gannon Dick <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:29:01 -0700 (PDT)
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=0AOO Writer is the word processor=0A=0A--- On Tue, 3/23/10, Gannon Dick <g= [email protected]> wrote:=0A=0A> From: Gannon Dick <[email protected]= m>=0A> Subject: Web Pages and Linked Meta Data=0A> To: [email protected]= g=0A> Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 5:23 PM=0A> When the web was young, th= ere was a=0A> very good reason that HTML was structured so.=A0 With=0A> jus= t a few minutes instruction, one could produce a rich=0A> text web page.=A0= Meta Data, was made optional, and=0A> "hidden" in a browser because it was= only critical for=0A> engineering.=A0 E-Mail "Full Headers" are still a my= stery=0A> to some.=A0 Lest we forget, Web Pages were designed to=0A> make c= ertain people piles of money. This hidden headers=0A> model helps that proc= ess along too.=A0 The assumption is=0A> that you don't own what you can't s= ee.=0A> =0A> Several ways of dealing with the special requirements of=0A> M= eta Data have been developed in the meantime, RDF, RDFS,=0A> DC, SKOS, OWL,= FOAF, etc..=A0 Today, there is a different=0A> sort of "critical engineeri= ng" problem, and this time it=0A> affects web page authors.=A0 The hidden h= eader model is=0A> not such a good way to look at a web page any more.=A0= =0A> Privacy issues lead to a reluctance to add linking data and=0A> the la= ck of connection to the abstractions OWL, SKOS etc.=0A> makes them less "au= thor friendly". =0A> =0A> I have a word-processor to web page meta data cen= tric model=0A> with an end to end validation test (by XSD). Since the=0A> "= backbone" is HTML, the browser display is mostly unchanged.=0A> The documen= t is a dctype "Dataset" the head is a=0A> skos:Collection of rdf:Properties= and the body elements=0A> cite,address,abbr, etc. are all styled in a "Cit= ation" class=0A> (or a "Redaction" class, because some people talk too=0A> = much).=A0 "Working" elements are marked as owl:sameAs to=0A> their respecti= ve rdf:Property or rdfs:Class, or DC Term in=0A> both the <head> and <body>= .=A0 This is a=0A> necessary first step to the solution of the Semantic Web= =0A> Engineering problem now that Internet Web Pages are a fact.=0A> =0A> = =0A> HTML 5, as proposed, uses the same basic hidden header=0A> document mo= del.=A0 And each section has particular=0A> instructions for conversion to = RDF.=A0 It is still=0A> solving the other web architecture engineering prob= lem.=0A> =0A> Normally I would just post this and let people find=0A> it.= =A0 However, since this is a fork from one of the=0A> earliest assumptions = of the Internet ...=0A> =0A> A fully worked example is available for the as= king:=0A> gannon_dick AT yahoo.com=0A> =0A> --Gannon=0A> =0A> =0A> =0A> = =0A> =0A> =A0 =A0 =A0 =0A> =0A=0A=0A