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RDFa

(Resource Description Framework for Attributes) An RDF syntax for embedding tags in HTML pages to identify data on the Web. It enables search engines to derive semantic meaning from the pages in order to provide more effective search results. See RDF and Microdata.
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C is a large corpus (typically the web), which can be annotated already in part (CL) with RDFa / microformats; we refer to the unannotated part as [C.sub.U].
The Open Graph developers based the initial version of the protocol on RDFa which means that additional <meta> tags need to be placed in the <head> of the web page.
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Launched in 2010, Facebook'sOpen Graphprovides a protocol for third-party applications to publish information to the Facebook platform through a set of RDFa (Resource Description Framework in attributes) tags.RDFahas been cited as an instrumental technology for enabling thesemantic Web, an effort to structure Web pages so that their information could be directly consumed by Internet services.
The Open Election Data project was/is to help local authorities publish their election results as open, linked data, and in doing so identify the blockers and pain points in councils publishing linked data (using RDFa).
The methodology applies RDF, RDFA and OWL, allowing designers to formally align a domain ontology with the REA-EO.