Significant news for the spread of Semantic Web standards was published on the 1^st of May, when Digg officially announced that it would become a “beta tester” for RDFa by applying it to its content. Digg is a social news aggregator which decided to put RDF into real-world use by implementing it as metadata for XML on its site. RDF triples can subsequently be extracted from the markups. The news was announced on Digg’s blog in a rather modest statement by Steve Williams, one of the principal moderators: “We’ve added RDFa, making Digg part of the “semantic web” where Web pages become more sophisticated, beyond simply words and pictures.” The move may appear discrete at first sight, but it is in fact a sign of a large shift in the growing adoption of Semantic Web standards and Data Portability on the Web. Digg announced its membership of the Data Portability group last January.

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