Jeni's Musings

It is the cause of much amusement to me that the aim of this project is no more and no less than “to put RDFa on our web pages” rather than being something functional like “we want our web pages to be more easily searchable”. I don’t think the customer has a really good reason for using RDF or RDFa in terms of functionality, just a kind of “if we build it they will come” mind-set.

Which is not to say that it’s a bad idea: if you’re publishing a large amount of information that might potentially be useful to someone, and that information is auto-generated anyway, then why not embed semantics in it? We’d never get any semantics on the web if everyone waited until there was an immediate benefit to themselves.