[open-science] Open Science Microformats/Pattern languages? was Re: Launch of the Panton Principles for Open Data in Science + Is It Open Data?

Egon Willighagen egon.willighagen at gmail.com
Wed Feb 24 08:30:49 UTC 2010


On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Jack Park <jackpark at gmail.com> wrote:
> Speculative question: what would a microformat, or family of
> microformats for open science look like? What pattern language(s)--to
> borrow from Christopher Alexander--is(are) in play here?

It would look like XHTML+RDFa, which has more expressive power and is
more accurate. Now, being in the RDF world, it would be able to use
any of the scientific domain ontologies being worked on around the
world.

Grtz,

Egon

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