A couple of precursors to Simple Web Semantics have been brought to my attention.
Wanted to alert you so you can consider these prior/current approaches while evaluating Simple Web Semantics.
The first one was from Rob Weir (IBM), who suggested I look at “smart tags” from Microsoft and sent the link to Soft tags (Wikipedia).
The second one was from Nick Howard (a math wizard I know) who pointed out the similarity to bookmarklets. On that see: Bookmarklet (Wikipedia).
I will be diving deeper into both of these technologies.
Not so much a historical study but what did/did not work, etc.
Other suggestions, directions, etc. are most welcome!
I have a another refinement to the syntax that I will be posting tomorrow.