Re: [office-metadata] Fw: News Release: W3C Completes Bridge BetweenHTML/Microformats and Semantic Web with GRDDL

[Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@gmail.com>]

robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:

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> So what would you do if you wanted to layer some structure on to the 
> data?  I guess you could annotate with RDF metadata and say things about 
> the range and the headers.  But another way might be to define via GRDDL 
> a way to extract RDF from the spreadsheet.  So not really metadata, but 
> RDF to describe the actually data of the sheet.  This could be powerful.

Ultimately this is an interface problem. We've now added the capability 
to encode this in the file itself (using the in-content encoding), so 
there's no longer a constraint there.

Bruce