All The Information In The World, The Way You Want

Google Tech Talks
May, 23 2008

ABSTRACT

Overview: Mark Birbeck has spent a number of years working on flexible user interfaces, both by developing software and working with the W3C on new standards. His latest work involves creating an Ajax framework
that uses metadata embedded in HTML documents to drive dynamic user interfaces. The framework makes it easy for authors to build interactive sites, whilst still creating accessible, searchable documents.

In this talk Mark will look at how embedded metadata can be used by anyone from scientific researchers to bloggers, through news organisations to photographers, to improve how their pages are understand and interacted with.

Speaker: Mark Birbeck
Mark Birbeck devised RDFa, a new standard from the W3C that allows metadata to be embedded in HTML and XHTML documents, rather than being stored separately. Web pages enriched in this way provide more accurate information for use in search engines, as well as creating enormous potential for building a new generation of
interactive tools for the end-user. Mark is also involved in the XForms Working Group and the XHTML 2 Working Group, has contributed to books on XML and RDF, blogs regularly about XForms, the semantic web,
and RIAs, and his company, webBackplane develops a range of open source software for semantic-driven user interfaces. His profile is at http://webBackplane.com/mark-birbeck.

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[wernmachine]

Good video but I can't understand the Indian Gentlemen's question

[willyfrommuff]

hey can we please be able to upload bigger videos for free since you are millionares and we arent thanks

[markbirbeck2]

Actually the talk is about ideas, which the code happens to illustrate. I haven't seen anyone else talking about this kind of approach to enriching the UI...with or without code samples. :)

(But as I said in the other comment, the code is all available online anyway.)

[markbirbeck2]

I agree that the code is hard to read (the 'high quality' version is slightly better, but still not great), but all of the code samples are linked to from lib-xh, which is referred to at the end.

Also, the blog sample (where RDFa is embedded in a blog post, and blog posts are used to hold formatters) is available on a demo blog at Blogspot, called 'capriceswf'.

The code in the post "Books I Was Reading" gives you just about all of the code you would need to understand and play with the ideas.

[koeffizient]

Absolutely useless with this bad video quality. This talk is about code and if you can't read it, it's a big misconception.

[beaver82flasher]

yes, couldn't read the code with this quality

[Winger4u]

Interesting but i wish the video quality was better...