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

[Oliver Hader]

Hi Jochen,

Jochen Rau schrieb:
> 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?

Thanks for your statement concerning domain models the possible
application of web ontologies!

olly
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Oliver Hader
TYPO3 Release Manager 4.3