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The RDF Web Applications Working Group has published three Last Call Working Drafts: * RDFa Core 1.1, * RDFa Lite 1.1 and * XHTML+RDFa 1.1. Together, these documents outline the vision for RDFa in a variety of XML and HTML-based Web markup languages. RDFa Core 1.1 specifies the core syntax and processing rules for RDFa [...]

02 Feb 2012 3:13pm GMT

In the Huffington Post, Steve Hamby, the Chief Technology Officer of Orbis Technologies, Inc. writes an evaluation of why he thinks 2012 will be the year of the Semantic Web. He includes a report of the use of RDFa and says "Was the strategy successful? … I would say yes" Read the article.

27 Jan 2012 9:05am GMT

The new version of the Open Document Format, ODF 1.2, has been ratified as a standard. One of the changes to ODF 1.2 is the adoption of RDFa as a way of including metadata. Read more at the ODF technical committee chair's blog.

06 Oct 2011 1:57pm GMT

Earlier we reported on Best Buy's successes as a result of using RDFa. Search New Central has now published an interview with Jay Myers, Lead Development Engineer for Best Buy, on the whys and wherefores of implementing RDFa on their site. "We really didn't go into it with any expectations. We just wanted to see [...]

24 May 2011 8:47am GMT

Duncan Grant has created a new tool called Radify as a part of his university studies. It is a bookmarklet for the purposes of annotating a web page with RDFa. The bookmarklet features a triple viewer, edit mode and ability to load/parse new ontologies. You can read more about Duncan and his research on the [...]

01 May 2011 9:00pm GMT

The RDFa Working Group has published two Second Last Call Working Drafts today - RDFa Core 1.1 and XHTML+RDFa 1.1. The first Last Call period for RDFa Core 1.1 and XHTML+RDFa 1.1 was started in late October 2010 and extended two times at the request of reviewers and comment submitters in order to get as [...]

31 Mar 2011 2:56pm GMT

New research released by Yahoo! shows that RDFa demonstrated explosive growth in 2010. In fact, RDFa is the fastest growing data markup format on the Web, and is used on more than 430 million web pages. It accounts for roughly 3.6% of the all of the Web pages on the Internet. How much did RDFa [...]

26 Jan 2011 1:39am GMT

This happened some time ago, but we forgot to mention it. Flickr expresses information about images and the licenses associated with those images using RDFa. In fact, Flickr was one of the first services to adopt RDFa and use it to express metadata about the contents of the web page.

25 Jan 2011 1:25am GMT

Since so many sites use Drupal as their content management system (including the Whitehouse, the BBC, Ubuntu, CNN, NATO and Amnesty International, and, well, so many others) we can expect to see RDFa appearing on many new sites in the near future. More details here.

07 Jan 2011 2:53pm GMT

The long-awaited Drupal 7 is on its way. Beta 1 has just been announced. Dries Buytaert discussed integrating RDFa into Drupal in Drupal, the semantic web and search, and shortly after that a a roadmap for RDFa in Drupal 7 was published. Since so many sites use Drupal as their content management system (including the [...]

08 Oct 2010 9:25am GMT