@jonny one thing that seems potentially promising with markdown is to try to put the data in frontmatter instead of content? then when you parse frontmatter as toml/yaml/json you can basically take the json and make it json-ld by adding a context depending on the "type" of content it represents. imagine something like hugo and mapping the default frontmatter attributes to some vocabulary... then establishing equivalences as needed

@trwnh
Hey if you can write HTML, then dont bother with markup formats. I write code for scientists and if I were to ask a scientist to write their document in HTML they would just be like "no" and "never" lol

@trwnh
There is a Jekyll plugin that does this, but one of the things I wanted with RDFa is to be able to annotate the text within the document as well as the whole document. Its a shame it seems to be quietly being deprecated

@jonny @trwnh If you’re interested in a critical history of RDFa: https://aeshin.org/static/pubs/Shaw%20-%202022%20-%20A%20Dispute%20over%20Embedding%20Linked%20Data%20in%20Web%20Pages.c90822e73bae.pdf

@jonny yeah rdfa is mostly stuck in 2013, it never really got fully ironed out because most people already preferred turtle or the new hotness of jsonld. it's a shame because it does have some advantages that the other formats lack (namely, you can markup text *and* make some of that markup extra-semantic, write once instead of having to maintain two separate things and risk them getting out of sync

@rieyin
@trwnh
I certainly am, and have done my own archaeology here, so very interested in finding an actual history

@jonny @rieyin currently reading -- thanks for the link!

@jonny @rieyin ok whew that was a meaty read... i have a lot of notes i took that aren't suited for the mastodon format but i can say that while this is a very good paper and it helped put into words a lot of things that have been brewing in my mind for a long time, it doesn't address what happened *after* the rdfa debate at whatwg and the introduction of microdata, schema.org, open graph protocol. there's probably more at play if you consider this later time period (2010-2013??)

@jonny @rieyin this later time period seems to support my earlier assumption that one of the bigger reasons rdfa stagnated a bit is that it was kind of usurped by jsonld (started development in 2010) and turtle (2011 working draft)

@trwnh
@rieyin
I haven't had time to read yet, but you gotta cover the semtech 2011 meeting where microdata and RDF maintainers were like "we might disagree about formats, but fuck letting google decide"