[TYPO3-dev] The state of support for the Semantic Web / RDFA / Web 3.0 in TYPO3

[Jochen Rau]

Hi Michiel.

Michiel Roos [netcreators] wrote:
> I would love to hear your opinion on the state of Web 3.0 readiness of
> TYPO3.

TYPO3 v4.x does not support semantic markup of content by now. But there 
are couple of people in the TYPO3 community who are aware of this topic 
(esp. the TYPO3 v5 team).

As the Semantic Web has left the academic world, other communities, like 
Drupal or Plone, have already started to implement support for semantic 
content. IMO this is very important goal for TYPO3 (v4 and v5), too.

The first step towards this goal will be to add Semantics to the 
(Domain) Objects of the Extensions. So we can couple a Domain Object 
like Tx_MyExtension_Domain_Model_Client to a semantic model "Person". 
The semantic model holds all the invariants, like "A Person has a date 
of birth. A Person has a father an a mother (which are also Persons). ...".

The second step is to generate "meaningful" output. In case of XHTML 
this could be RDFa or Microformats.

With FLOW3 (and thus Extbase) we have a very good foundation to 
implement these two steps. Because they support Domain Models, which are 
by definition "meaningful".

What's next? After the release of Extbase, I would like to implement 
Semantics and Ontologies in TYPO3. Anybody interested to join the team?

Regards
Jochen

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