I am working on improving the semweb markup on an Australian government
Department of Health and Aging website, which has HTML and XML versions
of the medicines allowed for prescription and the amount the government
pays. It has various links to interesting documents, and we want to make
it more semweb friendly.
Here are two example pages to give you the idea (they have different
selections of data):
http://www.pbs.gov.au/html/consumer/search/results?term=Zyprexa%20Zydis&publication=GE
http://www.pbs.gov.au/xml/consumer/search/results?term=Zyprexa%20Zydis&publication=GE
We are doing some general things like improving the microformats (DC and
hproduct) in the HTML.
But the plan was to decorate the XML (which has extra information) with
the appropriate RDFa, which seems perfect. But now I see that the RDFa
spec says that RDFa is designed for use on XHTML. We do no want to use
it that way, we want to augment the XML.
So I was wondering if anyone here had any advice? I see the choices
1) Convert to old RDF or some other format and making this available
too: but we really don't want to do this (an extra thing to maintain,
more bandwidth, etc)
2) Just ploughing ahead and using RDFa on XML even if nothing can use
it. (Would that be the case?)
3) Err, Something clever from people on this list.
Any ideas about what people do with RDF?
Cheers
Rick Jelliffe
