Why a community circle - sounds kind of old fashioned. I’m thinking of the tendency for successful online communities to circle through online and real physical spaces and back again. What technologies should we use to to make the online space richer and “more real”?
This is the first in a series of articles looking at specific technologies that are highly applicable in a government context. RDFa should be of interest to anyone wanting to make information available on the web in a smart usable way.
Well - maybe you don’t yet. It’s one thing to promote standards for exchanging information and transactions across the web, quite another to manage the result.
Within the New Zealand government domain, a framework is taking shape that aims to manage key objects and make them available. Object types include XML (and other) schemas for data exchange, agency or industry defined coding schemes, web service definitions and many others.
