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The Semantic Web and RDFa

There is a lot of momentum around Semantic Web and RDFa.
This may be caused by the big milestone reached for RDFa, a Candidate Recommendation of RDFa in XHTML: Syntax and Processing.

Recently, several discussion threads have been started on the WHATWG mailing list around the effort of integrating RDFa into the HTML5 specification as XHTML1.1 and XHTML2 that will have it integrated.

While I was pretty aware of the Microformats activity, I can’t say the same about RDFa. But Manu Sporny makes it a lot easier. In fact, this is by far the most comprehensive explanation of RDFa that I have ever seen.
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