W3C Releases GRDDL as a Recommendation!
Published 2 years ago by James Simmons
Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages, or GRDDL enables us to automatically extract information from structured Web pages, creating a bridge between XHTML/Microformats and RDF, and the current Web and the Semantic Web.
2007-09-11: The World Wide Web Consortium today released GRDDL and GRDDL Test Cases as Recommendations. GRDDL enables authors to extract data from their documents automatically, enabling them to reuse their data and enrich it by connecting to the Semantic Web. Give the W3C GRDDL Service a try! Read the GRDDL Primer, the press release and testimonials, and about the Semantic Web.
Danny Ayers and AlphaGalileo have some nice write-ups on GRDDL becoming a W3C recommendation.
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It's my goal to help bring about the Semantic Web. I also like to explore related topics like natural language processing, information retrieval, and web evolution. I'm the primary author of Semantic Focus and I'm currently working on several Semantic Web projects.
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Posted by Adrien Joly on September 25, 2007 at 1:15am
GRDDL seems to be an excellent idea but I have not been able to see the service work... None of the pages I provided were valid; so what kind of page is this service actually able to interpret??
Posted by Armando Padilla on May 18, 2008 at 8:28pm
GRDDL seems to work fine. The service works for only well structured XHTML web sites. So the tags must abide by the XML formating standards otherwise GRDDL will not work from my experience.