ISSUE-83: RDF/XML: Incorrect reference for use of HTML rel="meta"

HTML-rel-meta

RDF/XML: Incorrect reference for use of HTML rel="meta"

State:
CLOSED
Product:
RDF XML
Raised by:
Richard Cyganiak
Opened on:
2012-02-18
Description:
The 2004 RDF/XML spec has a section on “Using RDF/XML with HTML and XHTML”:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-syntax-grammar-20040210/#section-rdf-in-HTML

This section states:

[[
The DCMI has used and recommended rel="meta" when linking in RFC 2731 — Encoding Dublin Core Metadata in HTML [RFC-2731]
]]

However, flicking through RFC2731, I can't find any mention of rel="meta". So it seems that the reference is wrong:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2731.txt

I found a Dublin Core document that explicitly recommends rel="meta", but it is marked as SUPERSEDED, and I cannot find rel="meta" recommended in any of the documents that replace it:
http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmes-xml/

So it may be the case that the DCMI no longer recommends the use of rel="meta".

I note however that rel="meta" is recommended by FOAF, GoodRelations, and W3C's “Cool URIs for the Semantic Web” document, and generally in fairly wide use. A roundup of links is here:
http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-meta

A separate question is whether this section should be in the RDF/XML spec at all, given that it's not syntax-specific. Maybe the Primer is a better place?
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Related emails:
  1. Re: Proposal for ISSUE-83: RDF/XML: Incorrect reference for use of HTML rel="meta" (from ivan@w3.org on 2013-12-11)
  2. Proposal for ISSUE-83: RDF/XML: Incorrect reference for use of HTML rel="meta" (from guus.schreiber@vu.nl on 2013-12-11)
  3. Re: RDF-ISSUE-83 (HTML-rel-meta): RDF/XML: Incorrect reference for use of HTML rel='meta' [RDF General] (from ivan@w3.org on 2012-02-18)
  4. RDF-ISSUE-83 (HTML-rel-meta): RDF/XML: Incorrect reference for use of HTML rel='meta' [RDF General] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2012-02-18)

Related notes:

Resolution at 11 Dec 2013 telecon to remove the relevant section:

https://www.w3.org/2013/meeting/rdf-wg/2013-12-11#resolution_2

Guus Schreiber, 11 Dec 2013, 17:47:34

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