Copyright © 2007 Ben Adida Published by Elsevier B.V.
hGRDDL: Bridging microformats and RDFa
Received 4 July 2007;
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Abstract
We propose hGRDDL (pronounced “h-griddle”), a simple mechanism for transforming ad hoc HTML-embedded structured data, such as microformats, into RDFa. This technique preserves the advantages of the original syntax, notably the correspondence between the rendered HTML and the related structured data, and requires little change on the publisher end. RDFa tool developers can leverage the existing deployments of microformats, while focusing new deployments on RDFa for greater extensibility and consistency, all using the same client-side toolset. We provide a prototype implementation of the hGRDDL processor and of transformations for hCard and hCal, two popular microformats.
Keywords: RDFa; Microformats; GRDDL
Article Outline
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Multiple approaches
- 1.2. Bridging the syntaxes
- 1.3. Why not just GRDDL?
- 2. Principles for embedding semantics into HTML
- 2.1. Independence and extensibility
- 2.2. DRY (Do not repeat yourself)
- 2.3. Locality
- 2.4. Self-containment
- 3. Approaches to embedding semantics in HTML
- 3.1. Microformats
- 3.2. eRDF
- 3.3. GRDDL
- 3.4. RDFa
- 3.5. Selecting a target for hGRDDL transforms
- 4. hGRDDL: transforming to RDFa
- 4.1. GRDDL
- 4.2. Finding the hGRDDL transform
- 4.3. The transformation
- 4.4. An example: hCard
- 4.5. Hard-wiring some transforms
- 4.6. Implementation language
- 5. Implementing hGRDDL
- 5.1. Deployment platform
- 5.2. Components
- 5.2.1. Profiles and transforms
- 5.2.2. The hGRDDL processor
- 5.2.3. Verifying the output
- 5.3. Limitations
- 5.3.1. JavaScript and DOM dependencies
- 5.3.2. Delayed loading
- 5.3.3. Dynamic pages
- 6. Conclusion and future work
- Acknowledgements
- References






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