Comment on Why is RDF so old, complicated, unpopular and still not discarded?parentComments−jashkenas15yTo continue to play devil's advocate here ... if RDF is just an awkward API, RDFa is just an awkward microformat.−bergie15yMore specifically, it is an extensible microformat. Microformats are practically a subset of RDFa with locked-down ontologies (hCard, hCalendar etc).−mindcrime15yIn theory they are semantically equivalent (usually anyway) so the question is, is RDFa particularly awkward. I guess it depends on how you define awkward.
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To continue to play devil's advocate here ... if RDF is just an awkward API, RDFa is just an awkward microformat.
More specifically, it is an extensible microformat. Microformats are practically a subset of RDFa with locked-down ontologies (hCard, hCalendar etc).
In theory they are semantically equivalent (usually anyway) so the question is, is RDFa particularly awkward. I guess it depends on how you define awkward.