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Welcome to the RDFa community! A place where you can learn about RDFa, get help on implementing RDFa on your website or blog, and take part in the development of the community and the standard!

RDFa helps bloggers and website authors make their web pages smarter by adding computer-readable information to a site. Details about yourself, events, places, books, and music are just some of the "things" you can describe using RDFa. By adding RDFa to your website or blog, you help computers interact with your website in a way that is more helpful to people visiting your site. RDFa makes web browsers smarter by giving people more options when viewing a web page, such as adding you to their address book, adding an event to their calendar, getting directions to a place described by RDFa, or searching online bookstores for a book marked up using RDFa. There are many possibilities with RDFa and this community is dedicated to RDFa education, development, and advocacy.

RDFa Community Areas

The areas below can help you get started. The top row is for beginners, the middle row is for those familiar with RDFa and the bottom row is for experts.

Learn
Learn RDFa, from Basics to Advanced 		Publish
Publish RDFa on your web site
Consume
Find and Parse RDFa 		Participate
Participate in the RDFa community
Examples in the Wild
See others publishing RDFa 		Best Practices
See how to publish RDFa well

News

ODF 1.2 Approved as Standard: Now with RDFa!
The new version of the Open Document Format, ODF 1.2, has been ratified as a standard. One of the changes to ODF 1.2 is the adoption of RDFa as a way of including metadata. Read more at the ODF technical committee chair’s blog. [?]
RDFa: The Inside Story from Best Buy
Earlier we reported on Best Buy’s successes as a result of using RDFa. Search New Central has now published an interview with Jay Myers, Lead Development Engineer for Best Buy, on the whys and wherefores of implementing RDFa on their site. ?We really didn’t go into it with any expectations. We just wanted to see [...] [?]
Radify ? RDFa Annotation Tool
Duncan Grant has created a new tool called Radify as a part of his university studies. It is a bookmarklet for the purposes of annotating a web page with RDFa. The bookmarklet features a triple viewer, edit mode and ability to load/parse new ontologies. You can read more about Duncan and his research on the [...] [?]
RDFa 1.1 Nears Completion
The RDFa Working Group has published two Second Last Call Working Drafts today – RDFa Core 1.1 and XHTML+RDFa 1.1. The first Last Call period for RDFa Core 1.1 and XHTML+RDFa 1.1 was started in late October 2010 and extended two times at the request of reviewers and comment submitters in order to get as [...] [?]
RDFa Experiences Explosive Growth
New research released by Yahoo! shows that RDFa demonstrated explosive growth in 2010. In fact, RDFa is the fastest growing data markup format on the Web, and is used on more than 430 million web pages. It accounts for roughly 3.6% of the all of the Web pages on the Internet. How much did RDFa [...] [?]
Flickr uses RDFa
This happened some time ago, but we forgot to mention it. Flickr expresses information about images and the licenses associated with those images using RDFa. In fact, Flickr was one of the first services to adopt RDFa and use it to express metadata about the contents of the web page. [?]
Drupal 7 released with native RDFa support!
Since so many sites use Drupal as their content management system (including the Whitehouse, the BBC, Ubuntu, CNN, NATO and Amnesty International, and, well, so many others) we can expect to see RDFa appearing on many new sites in the near future. More details here. [?]
Drupal 7 Beta 1 Featuring RDFa Released
The long-awaited Drupal 7 is on its way. Beta 1 has just been announced. Dries Buytaert discussed integrating RDFa into Drupal in Drupal, the semantic web and search, and shortly after that a a roadmap for RDFa in Drupal 7 was published. Since so many sites use Drupal as their content management system (including the [...] [?]
Overstock.com adds RDFa to nearly one million pages
Recently major online retailer Overstock.com added RDFa to their website, marking up the nearly one million products they sell. An example: a book. [?]
New RDFa Checker
Toby Inkster has created a new RDFa checker, available here: check.rdfa.info It checks RDFa 1.0 and the work-in-progress RDFa 1.1, extracts the RDF from pages, and also checks for the Facebook, Google, and CCrel uses of RDFa. [?]

Special Projects

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