Re: Wiki

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

Rael Dornfest <rael@oreilly.com> wrote:

> My interest in Wikis and RSS actually brought me to the conclusion that
> there must be some way of doing a Semantic Wiki where markup is semantic
> rather than display-oriented in nature.  Much the same way as XML markup
> applies meaning (sorta) to a document rather than the majority of HTML
> which is all about how things look.  So, for instance, just as **foo**
> becomes <b>foo</b> in some Wiki markup, why not a(Rael) to mean
> <dc:author>Rael</dc:author> or s(foo,bar,baz) to mean
> <dc:subject>foo,bar,baz</dc:subject>.

This is a good part of the goal of my Blogspace project (that, and the idea
of "Timeless Weblogs"):

http://blogspace.com/about/

Basically, you can do things like <a rel="dc:author">Rael Dornfest</a> and
it will create a semantic "author" link to the RaelDornfest node in your
site (as well as display a link).

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