Re: [tdwg-tag] class design, generalization, L(O)D

With appropriate cautions duly noted (re Bob Morris, Jonathan Rees, Matt Jones [a few years ago]), we ARE moving in this direction (semantic web, RDF, etc.), and have been since about 2006.   ... Just not very fast :-|

In additional to microformats and RDF, is the HTML5 microdata feature part of the conversation among stakeholders here?

http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/#introduction http://diveintohtml5.org/extensibility.html