RDF Metadata in XHTML
by David Wood

Table of contents

• RDF Metadata in XHTML
• Overview
• W3C Working Groups and your involvement
• Metadata in HTML 1.x (1993)
• PICS: Metadata for Decentralized Content Selection (1996)
• PICS influence on Semantic Web Architecture
• PICS in HTML: Syntax
• XML for self-similar syntax (1997, 1998)
• RDF REC anticipates XHTML, XML Schemas (1998)
• XHTML 1.0
• RDF: 2001-2004
• GRDDL: an 80/20 solution
• GRDDL drawback: turing completeness
• GRDDL Semantics: explicit, grounded in the Web
• XHTML 2.0: The XHTML We Always Wanted
• XHTML 2.0 and RDF/A
• RDF/A Syntax Example
• Status as of November 2004
• How will XHTML 2.0 Help XML Authors?
• How will XHTML 2.0 Help the Semantic Web?
• Discussion