BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//librdf/rss2ical Version 1.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Planet RDF X-WR-RELCALID:http---planetrdf.com-index.rdfc-web/ X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20060326T020000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20061029T020000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---www.w3.org-QA-2010-02-small_add-ons_to_the_rdfa_dist.htmlH SUMMARY:Small add-ons to the RDFa distiller ATTENDEE;CN="W3C QA Blog Semantic Web News":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100208T150500Z DTSTAMP:20100208T150500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100208T150500Z DESCRIPTION:A small addition has been made on the RDFa distiller service ( pyRdfa) : there is now a possibility to upload an XHTML file to be distille d\, beyond referring to a URI or copying a text to a text box. This feature has been asked for by several users. Both the upload and the text box alte rnatives use POST\, whereas distilling via URI-s uses GET. (Note that the t ext box version used GET before\, which was really not the right way to go. ..) Just as for all new services bugs may have been overlooked\; contact Ivan Herman if you find any! URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/02/small_add-ons_to_the_rdfa_dist.h tml CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---www.w3.org-blog-SW-2010-02-06-german_translation_of_the_rdfa_pri mer SUMMARY:German Translation of the RDFa Primer ATTENDEE;CN="W3C Semantic Web News":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100206T080842Z DTSTAMP:20100206T080842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100206T080842Z DESCRIPTION:Stefan Schumacher has published a German translation of the R DFa Primer . URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.w3.org/blog/SW/2010/02/06/german_translation_of_th e_rdfa_primer CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---blogs.zdnet.com-semantic-web-?p=333 SUMMARY:Siri offers virtual assistance, with a little help from your\niPhon e ATTENDEE;CN="ZDNet Semantic Web by Paul Miller":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100205T062926Z DTSTAMP:20100205T062926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100205T062926Z DESCRIPTION:Semantic Technology startup\, Siri\, releases a Virtual Persona l Assistant for the iPhone and simplifies a wide range of tasks for US cons umers on the move. Just by speaking to their phone\, users can make dinner reservations\, check the weather\, find movies\, flights and more. URL;VALUE=URI:http://blogs.zdnet.com/semantic-web/?p=333 CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---clarkparsia.com-weblog-2010-02-03-empire-0-6-HI@ SUMMARY:Empire 0.6 ATTENDEE;CN="Clark and Parsia":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100203T222101Z DTSTAMP:20100203T222101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100203T222101Z DESCRIPTION:We released Empire 0.6 on Monday. For those of you who didn’t hear yet\, Empire is JPA for RDF. We think it’s the best Object Triples Mapper available\; but let us know. A bit more detail: Empire is an impleme ntation of a large chunk of the core Java Persistence API to provide an int erface to RDF databases using SPARQL or SeRQL. It provides a small annotati on framework for tying Java beans to RDF. Empire 0.6 will generate Java int erfaces for classes described in an OWL ontology automatically based on dom ain &range constraints\, cardinality restrictions\, and usage of the classe s ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://clarkparsia.com/weblog/2010/02/03/empire-0-6/ CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---apassant.net-blog-2010-02-03-smob-v21-using-smob-twitter-client SUMMARY:SMOB v2.1: Using SMOB as a Twitter client ATTENDEE;CN="Alexandre Passant":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100203T174014Z DTSTAMP:20100203T174014Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100203T174014Z DESCRIPTION:Here's a new release of SMOB \, the Semantic MicrOBlogging fram ework. This release includes various new features\, the main one being the integration of Twitter messages in SMOB so that you can use your SMOB hub a s a Twitter client\, where each Tweet is represented in RDFa using SIOC\, F OAF\, etc. In addition\, the new release provides: RSS feed for hub owner's messages\; Automatic @reply when replying to a Twitter message (including sioc:addressed_to annotation)\; Updated user-interface for #tags mappings\, now done using tabs to avoid too much scrolling\; Ability to directly chec k @reply messages\; Starring system using the Review vocabulary ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://apassant.net/blog/2010/02/03/smob-v21-using-smob-twitt er-client CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---ebiquity.umbc.edu-blogger-2010-02-03-kaggle-aims-to-host-data-dr iven-machine-learning-competitions- SUMMARY:Kaggle aims to host data-driven machine learning\ncompetitions ATTENDEE;CN="Ebiquity research group UMBC":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100203T113655Z DTSTAMP:20100203T113655Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100203T113655Z DESCRIPTION:Kaggle is a site for data-related competitions in machine lear ning\, statistics and econometrics. Companies\, researchers\, government an d other organizations will be able to post their modeling problems and invi te researchers to compete to produce the best solutions. The Kaggle demo s ite currently has three example competitions to illustrate how it will wor k and expects to host the first real one in March. Kaggle’s competition h osting service will be free\, but the site says that it plans to “offer p aid-for services in addition to its free competition hosting.” URL;VALUE=URI:http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2010/02/03/kaggle-aims-to-ho st-data-driven-machine-learning-competitions/ CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---www.w3.org-blog-SW-2010-02-02-rdfa_working_group_launchedH SUMMARY:RDFa Working Group launched ATTENDEE;CN="W3C Semantic Web News":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100202T172703Z DTSTAMP:20100202T172703Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100202T172703Z DESCRIPTION:W3C launched today the RDFa Working Group \, whose mission is t o support the use of RDFa\, a format for embedding structured data in Web d ocuments. The Working Group's goals include making it easier to author RDFa \, promoting continued adoption of the technology in HTML\, XHTML\, and XML \, and helping developers create RDFa applications. The group is chartered to extend and enhance RDFa 1.0 \, including the specification of an API. Th e Working Group will also support the HTML Working Group in its work on inc orporating RDFa in HTML5 and XHTML5 (as a followup on the the currently pub lished Working ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.w3.org/blog/SW/2010/02/02/rdfa_working_group_launc hed CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---clarkparsia.com-weblog-2010-02-02-pellet-icv-03-release-ions SUMMARY:Using OWL to Validate RDF via SPARQL: Pellet Integrity\nConstraints ATTENDEE;CN="Clark and Parsia":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100202T144915Z DTSTAMP:20100202T144915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100202T144915Z DESCRIPTION:The Open World Assumption got you down? While OWA is crucial to using OWL ontologies to draw new inferences from data\, it’s also a chal lenge for another very basic use case that the OWL specs have never really embraced: using OWL as a schema or validation language for RDF. Plainly\, t hat’s a use case that some people want and expect from OWL \; but until n ow it hasn’t really been available. We’re happy to release Pellet Integ rity Constraint Validator version 0.3\, a prototype system that uses OWL on tologies as integrity constraints for RDF data. ICV automatically translate s OWL axioms into ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://clarkparsia.com/weblog/2010/02/02/pellet-icv-03-releas e/ CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---www.lassila.org-blog-archive-2010-02-sparql_revisite.htmlts SUMMARY:SPARQL revisited ATTENDEE;CN="Ora Lassila":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100202T094332Z DTSTAMP:20100202T094332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100202T094332Z DESCRIPTION:I was happy to see that complex property paths are being consi dered as an addition to SPARQL as part of the new SPARQL 1.1 work. Lack of transitive closure earlier made me kind of lose interest in SPARQL for a l ong time\, now things might change. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.lassila.org/blog/archive/2010/02/sparql_revisite.h tml CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---webofdata.wordpress.com-2010-02-02-suppliers-responsibility-for- defining-equivalency-id=1h SUMMARY:Supplier’s responsibility for defining equivalency on the\nWeb of Data ATTENDEE;CN="Michael Hausenblas":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100202T082804Z DTSTAMP:20100202T082804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100202T082804Z DESCRIPTION:Less than a year ago I URL;VALUE=URI:http://webofdata.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/suppliers-responsib ility-for-defining-equivalency/ CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---feedproxy.google.com-~r-Nodalities-~3-nIfciE-lxR4-martin-belam-t alks-with-talis.php SUMMARY:Martin Belam Talks with Talis ATTENDEE;CN="Talis":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100201T140016Z DTSTAMP:20100201T140016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100201T140016Z DESCRIPTION:In this Nodalities Podcast\, I talk with blogger and Guardia n information architect Martin Belam. I’ve run into Martin at a few Link ed Data events where the news and media industries have had a high profile (including the recent News Media Summit \, and News Innovation conference last year). Martin has an interest in Linked Data\, and an interesting per spective on where it fits in with News\, both as a tool for journalism and research and as a resource for the industry. Also mentioned: Guardian O pen Platform URL;VALUE=URI:http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nodalities/~3/nIfciE-lxR4/mart in-belam-talks-with-talis.php CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---www.openlinksw.com-blog-kidehen@openlinksw.com-blog-?id=1596Data SUMMARY:The Business Of Linked Data (BOLD) Discussion Space ATTENDEE;CN="Kingsley Idehen":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100131T224836Z DTSTAMP:20100131T224836Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100131T224836Z DESCRIPTION:I've created a new discussion space that's squarely focused on the business development and marketing aspects of \"HTTP based Linked Data\" (Linked Data ). As its name indicates\, It's a BOLD attempt to fill a VoiD. :-) Background A few months ago\, Aldo Bucchi posted a message to the LOD mailing list seeking a discussion space for more business and marketing oriented topic\, in relation to Linked Data. At the time\, my assumption was that the existing LOD mailing list served that purpose absolutely fine\, but in due course I came to realize that Aldo's request had a much lager ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?i d=1596 CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---www.openlinksw.com-blog-kidehen@openlinksw.com-blog-?id=1595 SUMMARY:Getting The Linked Data Value Pyramid Layers Right (Update\n#2) ATTENDEE;CN="Kingsley Idehen":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100131T224647Z DTSTAMP:20100131T224647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100131T224647Z DESCRIPTION:One of the real problems that pervades all routes to Linked Dat a value prop. incomprehension stems from the layering of its value pyramid\; especially when communicating with -initially detached- end-users. Note to Web Programmers: Linked Data is about Data (Wine) and not about Code (Fish). Thus\, it isn't a \"programmer only zone\"\, far from it. More than anything else\, its inherently inclusive and spreads its participation net widely across: Data Architects\, Data Integrators\, Power Users\, Knowledge Workers\, Information Workers\, Data Analysts\, etc.. Basically\, everyone that can \"click on a link\" is invited to this particular party\; remember\, it is about ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?i d=1595 CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---www.openlinksw.com-blog-kidehen@openlinksw.com-blog-?id=1594Data SUMMARY:What is the DBpedia Project? (Updated) ATTENDEE;CN="Kingsley Idehen":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100131T224555Z DTSTAMP:20100131T224555Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100131T224555Z DESCRIPTION:The recent Wikipedia imbroglio centered around DBpedia is the f undamental driver for this particular blog post. At time of writing this bl og post\, the DBpedia project definition in Wikipedia remains unsatisfactor y due to the following shortcomings: inaccurate and incomplete definition o f the Project's What\, Why\, Who\, Where\, When\, and How inaccurate reflec tion of project essence\, by skewing focus towards data extraction and data set dump production\, which is at best a quarter of the project. Here are some insights on DBpedia\, from the perspective of someone intimately invol ved with the other three-quarters of the project. What is DBpedia? A live . .. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?i d=1594 CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---www.openlinksw.com-blog-kidehen@openlinksw.com-blog-?id=1593) SUMMARY:Getting The Linked Data Value Pyramid Layers Right (Update\n#2) ATTENDEE;CN="Kingsley Idehen":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100131T224404Z DTSTAMP:20100131T224404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100131T224404Z DESCRIPTION:One of the real problems that pervades all routes to Linked Dat a value prop. incomprehension stems from the layering of its value pyramid\; especially when communicating with -initially detached- end-users. Note to Web Programmers: Linked Data is about Data (Wine) and not about Code (Fish). Thus\, it isn't a \"programmer only zone\"\, far from it. More than anything else\, its inherently inclusive and spreads its participation net widely across: Data Architects\, Data Integrators\, Power Users\, Knowledge Workers\, Information Workers\, Data Analysts\, etc.. Basically\, everyone that can \"click on a link\" is invited to this particular party\; remember\, it is about ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?i d=1593 CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---www.openlinksw.com-blog-kidehen@openlinksw.com-blog-?id=1592Data SUMMARY:What is the DBpedia Project? (Updated) ATTENDEE;CN="Kingsley Idehen":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100131T224308Z DTSTAMP:20100131T224308Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100131T224308Z DESCRIPTION:The recent Wikipedia imbroglio centered around DBpedia is the f undamental driver for this particular blog post. At time of writing this bl og post\, the DBpedia project definition in Wikipedia remains unsatisfactor y due to the following shortcomings: inaccurate and incomplete definition o f the Project's What\, Why\, Who\, Where\, When\, and How inaccurate reflec tion of project essence\, by skewing focus towards data extraction and data set dump production\, which is at best a quarter of the project. Here are some insights on DBpedia\, from the perspective of someone intimately invol ved with the other three-quarters of the project. What is DBpedia? A live . .. URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?i d=1592 CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---www.openlinksw.com-blog-kidehen@openlinksw.com-blog-?id=1591) SUMMARY:5 Very Important Things to Note about HTTP based Linked\nData ATTENDEE;CN="Kingsley Idehen":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100131T223135Z DTSTAMP:20100131T223135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100131T223135Z DESCRIPTION:It isn't World Wide Web Specific (HTTP != World Wide Web) It is n't Open Data Specific It isn't about \"Free\" (Beer or Speech) It isn't ab out Markup (so don't expect to grok it via \"markup first\" approach) It's about Hyperdata - the use of HTTP and REST to deliver a powerful platform a gnostic mechanism for Data Reference\, Access\, and Integration. When tryin g to understand HTTP based Linked Data \, especially if you're well versed in DBMS technology use (User\, Power User\, Architect\, Analyst\, DBA\, or Programmer) think: Open Database Connectivity ( ODBC ) without operating sy stem\, data model\, or wire-protocol ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?i d=1591 CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---www.openlinksw.com-blog-kidehen@openlinksw.com-blog-?id=1590 SUMMARY:5 Game Changing Things about the OpenLink Virtuoso + AWS\nCloud Com bo ATTENDEE;CN="Kingsley Idehen":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100131T222934Z DTSTAMP:20100131T222934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100131T222934Z DESCRIPTION:Here are 5 powerful benefits you can immediately derive from th e combination of Virtuoso and Amazon's AWS services (specifically the EC2 a nd EBS components): Acquire your own personal or service specific data spac e in the Cloud. Think DBase\, Paradox\, FoxPRO\, Access of yore\, but with the power of Oracle \, Informix \, Microsoft SQL Server etc.. using a Conce ptual\, as opposed to solely Logical\, model based DBMS (i.e.\, a Hybrid DB MS Engine for: SQL \, RDF\, XML\, and Full Text) Ability to share and contr ol access to your resources using innovations like FOAF +SSL\, OpenID\, and OAuth\, all from one ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?i d=1590 CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---journal.dajobe.org-journal-posts-2010-01-30-raptor-1421-raptor2- git- SUMMARY:Raptor 1.4.21 released – Raptor 2 GIT work ATTENDEE;CN="Dave Beckett":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100131T055125Z DTSTAMP:20100131T055125Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100131T055125Z DESCRIPTION:I just released version 1.4.21 of my Raptor RDF parsing / seria lising library to the world. This release is just bug fixes: RDFa parser bu ffer management problems were fixed. The Turtle parser and serializers now use QNames correctly as required by the specification . The RDF/XML parser now resets correctly to detect duplicate rdf:IDs when a parser object is re used. A few other minor bug and build fixes with made. Fixed reported issue s : 0000318 \, 0000319 \, 0000326 \, 0000331 \, 0000332 and 0000337 This is the first release since switching to GIT as the source control for the ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://journal.dajobe.org/journal/posts/2010/01/30/raptor-142 1-raptor2-git/ CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---blog.dbtune.org-post-2010-01-29-BBC-Semantic-Web-use-caseH SUMMARY:BBC Semantic Web use-case ATTENDEE;CN="Yves Raimond":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100129T153700Z DTSTAMP:20100129T153700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100129T153700Z DESCRIPTION:After a very long time writing it\, we finally have a BBC Sema ntic Web use-case on the W3C website! It describes work we did around BBC Programmes \, BBC Music \, BBC Wildlife Finder and Search+. I hope it a ll makes a bit of sense :-) For a more detailed writeup about these issues\, Patrick's Linked Data on the BBC are very good. URL;VALUE=URI:http://blog.dbtune.org/post/2010/01/29/BBC-Semantic-Web-use-c ase CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---www.w3.org-blog-SW-2010-01-29-new_sw_use_case_by_the_bbceH SUMMARY:New SW Use Case by the BBC ATTENDEE;CN="W3C Semantic Web News":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100129T151347Z DTSTAMP:20100129T151347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100129T151347Z DESCRIPTION:The BBC has provided a W3C Semantic Web Use Case on how Semanti c Web Technologies are used on some of the BBC’s Web Sites . The main cha racteristics of the BBC’s approach is to use the Web as a Content Managem ent System. Sites like the BBC Music \, BBC Programmes \, or the BBC Wildli fe Finder rely on external\, publicly available datasets like Musicbrainz o r Wikipedia\; the BBC sites themselves show an aggregated view of this info rmation\, put in a BBC context. Furthermore\, the BBC also creates Web iden tifiers for every item it has interest in\; RDF representations of these .. . URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.w3.org/blog/SW/2010/01/29/new_sw_use_case_by_the_b bc CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---www.openlinksw.com-blog-kidehen@openlinksw.com-blog-?id=1605 SUMMARY:Virtuoso Chronicles from the Field: Nepomuk, KDE, and the\nquest fo r a sophisticated RDF DBMS. ATTENDEE;CN="Kingsley Idehen":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100128T161404Z DTSTAMP:20100128T161404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100128T161404Z DESCRIPTION:For this particular user experience chronicle\, I've simply ins erted the content of \" URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?i d=1605 CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---www.openlinksw.com-blog-kidehen@openlinksw.com-blog-?id=1602 SUMMARY:Virtuoso Chronicles from the Field: Nepomuk, KDE, and the\nquest fo r a sophisticated RDF DBMS. ATTENDEE;CN="Kingsley Idehen":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100128T161404Z DTSTAMP:20100128T161404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100128T161404Z DESCRIPTION:For this particular user experience chronicle\, I've simply ins erted the content of \" URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?i d=1602 CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---www.w3.org-blog-SW-2010-01-28-new_sparql_drafts_publishedH SUMMARY:New SPARQL drafts published ATTENDEE;CN="W3C Semantic Web News":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100128T084007Z DTSTAMP:20100128T084007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100128T084007Z DESCRIPTION:The W3C SPARQL Working Group has published a First Public Worki ng Draft of SPARQL 1.1 Property Paths \, which defines a more succinct way to write parts of basic graph patterns and also extend matching of triple p attern to arbitrary length paths. The group also published six updates\, na mely: SPARQL 1.1 Query adds support for aggregates\, subqueries\, projected expressions\, and negation to the SPARQL query language. SPARQL 1.1 Update defines an update language for RDF graphs. SPARQL 1.1 Protocol for RDF def ines an abstract interface and HTTP bindings for a protocol to issue SPARQL Query and SPARQL Update statements against ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.w3.org/blog/SW/2010/01/28/new_sparql_drafts_publis hed CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---fgiasson.com-blog-index.php-2010-01-27-behind-ozs-curtain- SUMMARY:Behind Oz’s Curtain ATTENDEE;CN="Frederick Giasson":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100127T205041Z DTSTAMP:20100127T205041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100127T205041Z DESCRIPTION:Benjamin Nowack\, creator of ARC and Trice \, wrote an interest ing blog post about the place of Microformats and RDFa in the HTML 5 specif ication . I am not deep into the specification itself\, and so may lack som e history context. However\, the most interesting point in this article is not related to Microformats\, RDFx or the new HTML 5 specification. The poi nt is that apparently\, some people believe that it is RDF or nothing. This is not new\, but is that true? People (and particularly enterprises) want the benefits of structured data\, not necessarily RDF. In fact\, many peopl e ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://fgiasson.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/27/behind-ozs-curt ain/ CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:http---bnode.org-blog-2010-01-26-microdata-semantic-markup-for-both-rdf ers-and-non-rdfers SUMMARY:Microdata, semantic markup for both RDFers and\nnon-RDFers ATTENDEE;CN="Benjamin Nowack":invalid:nomail DTSTART:20100126T120000Z DTSTAMP:20100126T120000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20100126T120000Z DESCRIPTION:There's been a whole lot of discussion around Microdata \, a ne w approach for embedding machine-readable information into forthcoming HTML 5. What I find most attractive about Microdata is the fact that it was desi gned by HTMLers\, not RDFers. It's refreshingly pragmatic\, free of other R DF spec legacy\, but still capable of expressing most of RDF. Unfortunately \, RDFa lobbyists on the HTML WG mailing list forced the spec out of HTML5 core for the time being. This manoeuver was understandable (a lot of energy went into RDFa\, after all)\, but in my opinion very short-sighted. How ma ny uphill battles did we ... URL;VALUE=URI:http://bnode.org/blog/2010/01/26/microdata-semantic-markup-fo r-both-rdfers-and-non-rdfers CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR