This will be the last post about RDFa that both Ben and I will be making for at least the next couple of weeks. The conversation started in this community regarding Creative Common's decision to use RDFa to not only express licensing concerns, but other important metadata surrounding creative works.
There are a number of us that were pulled into the discussion by members in this community and it is unfortunate that our explanations of the semantic data expression requirements have been understood as "beat(ing) everyone over the head"[1]. That was not our intention and we have endeavored to keep our argumentation logical and civil. We are instituting a self-imposed cool-down period regarding RDFa. The threads are getting very long at this point and the discussion seems to be, against our best intentions, annoying some of the people on this mailing list[1]. The goal of these threads was always to educate the HTML5 community about the requirements of semantic data expression in HTML[2] and the possibilities of semantics expression using RDFa. I believe that there has been enough discussion to see that goal realized among those that have kept an open mind to the idea of semantics expression in HTML. We invite those of you that are interested in HTML5+RDFa (in any form) to continue the discussion on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. The RDFa Task Force has two to three more months of W3C process to go through before RDFa becomes an official standard. We must focus our effort on seeing that through first. After RDFa is a W3C standard, we will create a request to integrate it into HTML5 and discuss the matter in an official capacity with the WHATWG community at that time. We'd like to thank those that have read these threads and contributed to the discussion for taking the time to do so. While we may not agree on the methods of making the Web a better place, it is evident that all of us care deeply about that shared goal. -- manu [1]http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2008-August/016135.html [2]http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2008-August/015957.html [3]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdfa/ -- Manu Sporny President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Bitmunk 3.0 Website Launches http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/07/03/bitmunk-3-website-launches
