Semantic EditorThe Way Forward from Tag Soup

Salzburg IKS Workshop

Semantic Editor?

...an editor that makes inserting semantic content as easy as inserting a picture or making text bold

HTML is not a black box

• Most CMSs treat HTML content as “black box”

• We clean it but don't analyze it

• Actual meaning of content is outside of content and managed by forms

Not HTML

Don't you all just love filling forms?

The story so far

http://aloha-editor.com/

The story so far

Semantic Editor hackathon in Helsinki, July 2010

Two sides of semantic editing

• Using RDFa to make content editable

Henri Bergius, Nemein

• Semantic annotation of content

Haymo Meran, Gentics

http://semantic-editor.org/

Using RDFa to make content editable

• Example: Midgard CMS Aloha integration• Idea:

• Single JS include to load whole CMS UI• Tell CMS what to make editable via RDFa

Semantic annotation of content