Microformats: what are they and why do I care?

Slide 1: microformats what are they ? &why do I care

Slide 2: what are they

Slide 3: RDF Semantic eb W OWL

Slide 4: Separate eb W

Slide 5: machines

Slide 7: Web tandards S

Slide 8: (X)HTML semantic web microformats

Slide 9: same web

Slide 10: humans

Slide 11: low hanging fruit where relationships XFN licensing rel-license people hCard events hCalendar

Slide 12: how

Slide 13: 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>

Slide 14: rel-license <a rel=“license” href=“http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/3.0”> Some rights reserved </a>

Slide 15: 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>

Slide 16: class attribute for general purpose processing by user agents

Slide 17: hCard <li class=“vcard”> <a rel=“friend met colleague” class=“fn url” href=“http://suda.co.uk/”> Brian Suda </a></li>

Slide 18: vCard BEGIN:VCARD N:Keith;Jeremy;;; FN:Jeremy Keith ORG:Clearleft; TITLE:Web Developer TEL;type=CELL:+44 7792 069292 END:VCARD

Slide 19: iCalendar BEGIN:VEVENT LOCATION:San Francisco DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071022 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071025 SUMMARY:Voices That Matter END:VEVENT

Slide 20: 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>

Slide 21: abbr element <abbr title=“2007-10-22” class=“dtstart”> October 22nd </abbr>

Slide 22: flickr.com/photos/tantek/1341747652/

Slide 23: expose CSS discover Operator convert Technorati mashup portability why do I care

Slide 24: last.fm upcoming google maps flickr semantic web of data pownce flume yahoo local twitter

Slide 25: API microformats markup text complexity→

Slide 26: what about spam trust growth

Slide 27: The Process

Slide 28: whatare they where how ? & whydo I care

Slide 29: adactio.com thank you microformats.org