Right now on the Web there are a couple of different views about how to deliver more data that is more structured. The Semantic Web world advocates the RDF view, citing the power of RDF as a representation model. In contrast, others favour adding a little extra semantics to existing HTML documents, using so-called Microformats. Some people see the two views as diametrically opposed and irreconcilable. Not so here at Revyu.com.

We believe that any initiative that brings greater structure to the Web is a good thing, and Microformats are one way of doing that (especially when they can be combined with GRDDL to generate RDF). Consequently, even though we support RDF natively, we’ve now added support for the hReview microformat to Revyu.com. The HTML page detailing each Review (like this review of Babel) provides hReview markup, in addition to a link to the RDF/XML version of the same review. As far as we know, Revyu is the only native-RDF reviewing and rating site; therefore this should now make it the only reviewing site doing RDF *and* hReview.

Many thanks to Brian Suda for providing gentle encouragement and going over the hReview with a fine-tooth comb and an XSLT parser.