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W3C Specifies, Simplifies RDFa
The RDF (Resource Description Framework) Web Applications Working Group of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has published several recommendations and a primer for use of RDFa and RDFa Lite in a variety of XML and HTML-based Web markup languages.
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Drupal 7 Released, But is it Production Ready?
That's right, Drupal 7 has officially launched today. The latest version of the well known open source web content management system has been three years in the making (and we've covered much of that work ), now we just have to wait for the contributed modules to catch up.
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Web Optimization: W3C Takes Semantic Web to Next Level
If you think RDFa and the semantic web is only for geeks, it's time to take a second look. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is advancing the standards for tomorrow's Internet and web content management vendors are getting on-board.
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OpenPublish 2.1 Brings Semantic Web and Improved Theming
Fans of the OpenPublish (news, site) packaged Drupal (news, site) distribution aimed at publishers will be pleased to know that creator Phase 2 Technology has some interesting updates coming, and big plans to complete before the next Drupalcon. Versions Phase 2 just released
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Semantic Web: W3C Publishes Working Draft of HTML + RDFa Spec
The W3C (news, site) has been busy. They've released seven documents related to HTML, one of which is of interest to anyone working with HTML and another to anyone involved with the semantic web. HTML 5 One of the documents released is HTML5 differences from HTML4
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Call for Feedback on Drupal 7 Semantic Web Impementation
When Dries Buytaert founded Drupal (news, site), he intended it in part to be a platform where he could test out and play with new technologies. Drupal, for example, was an early adopter of RSS. With the pending release of Drupal 7, this goal isn't changing,
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Digital Asset Management Defined
You can't afford to ignore the issue of Digital Asset Management, or DAM. It's more than a fun acronym. Solid DAM can make your business more efficient. Poor DAM can result in waste, confusion and many lost opportunities.
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RDF Automation Ushering in Semantic Web
Researchers with the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have thrown themselves head over heels into the semantic web. At this year's 8th International Semantic Web Conference, they presented a paper (download the PDF ) focused on the problem of automatically generating the metadata that many semantic web functionalities rely
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The Semantic Web Moves Forward: HTML+RDFa Draft Published
Without complex decision trees helping computers determine what pieces of text relate to what, it's nearly impossible to make use of the wealth of data available on the web. In the case where you're only interested in people reading your pages, that's fine.
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Drupal 7 CMS to Add Content Type Extensibility for Dummies
Over the years, the Drupal (news, site ) web content management system has had the same problem as any other growing software project: deciding which features are important enough to belong in the core of the software.
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New Google Tech Fuses SEO and Semantic Web
As we've discussed before, the semantic web is supposed to help with issues where computers just have no idea of what they're seeing in any context. The problem was getting people to take advantage of this technology in any real numbers. Well, if you care about Search Engine Optimization
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Semantic Web Language Continues to Evolve with OWL 2
The World Wide Web Consortium's OWL (Web Ontology Language) Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of the "OWL 2 Web Ontology Language Document Overview." Go ahead. Grab a dictionary. We'll wait.
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RDFa, Drupal and a Practical Semantic Web
In the march toward creating the semantic web, web content management systems such as Drupal (news, site ) and many proprietary vendors struggle with the goal of emitting structured information that other sites and tools can usefully consume.
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