Texty Format

In the process of texty generation, we decided to store the texts in the original format and in a texty-format.

This is a list of possible formats we can adopt as texty-format.

Of course I serach only for standar formats. This is a list:

RDFa: (or Resource Description Framework - in - attributes)

is a set of extensions to XHTML which is now a W3C Recommendation. RDFa uses attributes from XHTML's meta and link elements, and generalises them so that they are usable on all elements. This allows you to annotate XHTML markup with semantics. A simple mapping is defined so that RDF triples may be extracted.

The W3C RDF in XHTML Taskforce is also working on an implementation for non-XML versions of HTML.[1] The primary issue for the non-XML implementation is how to handle the lack of XML namespaces.

Embedded RDF: (embedded RDF)

is a syntax for writing HTML in such a way that the information in the HTML document can be extracted (with an eRDF parser or XSLT stylesheet) into Resource Description Framework.

It was invented by Ian Davis in 2005, and partly inspired by microformats, a simplified approach to semantically annotate data in websites.

Microformats:

A microformat is a web-based[1] approach to semantic markup that seeks to re-use existing XHTML and HTML tags to convey metadata[2] and other attributes. This approach allows information intended for end-users (such as contact information, geographic coordinates, calendar events, and the like) to also be automatically processed by software.

Right now, texty uses a microformat, that means, a simple XHTML where an annotation looks like:

Here is a text and <span id="[uniqueID]" class="[KindOfAnnotation]">here</span> and annotation.