W3C has launched a new HTML validation site, the Nu Markup Validation Service. From a Semantic Web point of view it is important to note that the default setting of the validator validates HTML5 with RDFa 1.1. Lite and with microdata, the two simpler syntaxes to add structured data to HTML. Furthermore, the user can also choose the option of validating with RDFa 1.1 (instead of RDFa Lite) as well as microdata.
About Ivan Herman
Ivan Herman is the Semantic Web Activity Lead at W3C. He graduated as a mathematician at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary, in 1979. After a brief scholarship at the Université Paris VI he joined the Hungarian research institute in computer science (SZTAKI) where he worked for 6 years. He left Hungary in 1986 and, after a few years in industry, he joined the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI) in Amsterdam where he has held a tenure position since 1988. He received a PhD degree in Computer Science in 1990 at the Leiden University, in the Netherlands. Ivan joined the W3C team as Head of Offices in January 2001 while maintaining his position at CWI. He served as Head of Offices until June 2006, when he was asked to take the Semantic Web Activity Lead position.
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