Just a quick comment on:

  it uses prefixes, which most authors simply do not understand, and
  which many implementors end up getting wrong (e.g. SearchMonkey
  hard-coded certain prefixes in its first implementation, Google's
  handling of RDF blocks for license declarations is all done with

Actually, the problem we see is not so much the prefixes themselves but rather the cumbersome way of specifying namespace prefix definitions using xmlns. So I think it would make sense to have some mechanism for referencing bundles of namespace prefixes ('profiles') or namespace registries, in order to easy authoring.

In terms of prefixes, I find that 'com.foaf-project.name' is a lot more difficult to write than 'foaf:name'. Reverse domain names are non-intuitive for non-programmer types (or non-Java programmers).

Cheers,
Peter

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