Kurt Cagle has a stunning composition on RDFa, and interestingly sufficient draws attention to CURIEs as a key technology, since it formalises the use of scoped vocabularies.

I could draw attention to many interesting points, but one that particularly caught my eye was:

RDFa and Atom construct for a surprisingly potent combination. One provides a useful way for annotating XHTML substance with metadata easily and unobtrusively. The other provides a way of transporting both the metadata and its corresponding urls such that generalized feed processors can display at least a minimal set of knowledge about the given resource, and specialized feed processors can take the same Atom feed and use the object properties to generate considerably more sophisticated effects.

An excellent observation.

For anyone not familiar with Kurt’s work, it’s great to see him writing about RDFa. Kurt has a knack for being able to see the faraway term potential of new technologies, but at the same day explain to would-be users why such technologies could be useful to them.

He goes on:

Look for an upcoming exposition that will delve into the formal mechanics of building Atom feeds from RDFa and illustrating how you can extend positive CMS systems to better incorporate RDFa as a core capability.

I for one, am looking forward to that, and I think a lot of citizens will find those articles incredibly useful.

Orginal post by Mark Birbeck