Bug#590931: Would be great to integrate RDFa metadata into debbugs pages
Package: debbugs
Severity: wishlist
Hi.
It would be great if bug lists or bug pages could include RDFa content.
Such content could be basic bug description.
For instance in lists of bugs, a link like
<a href="bugreport.cgi?bug=12345">...</a> could mention that the destination page is about a resource whose URI is <http://bugs.debian.org/12345/>
Thus, in page <http://bugs.debian.org/12345/> one could find basic fields, like the title of the bug, and so on using common ontologies like Dublic Core.
For bug ontologies, here's our proposal : http://heliosplatform.sourceforge.net/ontologies/2010/05/helios_bt.html
For a reference on RDFa : http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/ maybe. The idea is to embed (much like using CSS directives) semantic tagging of the displayed elements to add metadata in addition to the presented data.
Then, for instance instead of a link between a debbugs page and a PTS page, one would get a "semantic" link explaining that source page is a bug description page and target page is a source package description page, where 'bug' and 'source package' standard properties could be defined in an ontology that could be shared together with many other tools (other distros, for instance).
The idea is that the pages of debbugs can be parsed by RDFa aware tools, without adding a complete new API to retrieve semantic information about bugs.
FYI, #585740 exhibits similar ideas for the PTS.
Best regards,
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