microformats
what are
they
?
&why do I
care

what are
they

RDF
Semantic
eb
W OWL

Separate
eb
W

machines

Web
tandards
S

(X)HTML
semantic
web
microformats

same
web

humans

low hanging fruit
where
relationships XFN
licensing rel-license
people hCard
events hCalendar

how

rel attribute
the relationship from the
current document
to the anchor specified by
the href attribute
<link rel=“stylesheet” href=“foo.css” />
<a rel=“help” href=“foo.html”>help</a>

rel-license
<a rel=“license”
href=“http://creativecommons.org/
licenses/by/3.0”>
Some rights reserved
</a>

XFN
<li><a rel=“friend met colleague”
href=“http://suda.co.uk/”>
Brian Suda
</a></li>
<li><a rel=“friend met co-worker ”
href=“http://andybudd.com/”>
Andy Budd
</a></li>

class
attribute
for general purpose
processing by user
agents

hCard
<li class=“vcard”>
<a rel=“friend met colleague”
class=“fn url”
href=“http://suda.co.uk/”>
Brian Suda
</a></li>

vCard
BEGIN:VCARD
N:Keith;Jeremy;;;
FN:Jeremy Keith
ORG:Clearleft;
TITLE:Web Developer
TEL;type=CELL:+44 7792 069292
END:VCARD

iCalendar
BEGIN:VEVENT
LOCATION:San Francisco
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071022
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071025
SUMMARY:Voices That Matter
END:VEVENT

hCalendar
Voices That Matter is taking place
in San Francisco from October
22nd to 25th.
<span class=“summary”>
Voices That Matter
</span>
<span class=“location”>
San Francisco
</span>

abbr
element
<abbr title=“2007-10-22”
class=“dtstart”>
October 22nd
</abbr>

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complexity→

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Process

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