Microformats Nate Davey & Ira Thompson

What are we trying to do? ➲ Problem: Too much information on the Web on any one subject for a person or group to find, read and aggregate ➲ Solution: Use a Computer, duh! ➲ Problem #2: Computers can’t understand human language

A shared Language ➲ HTML is ubiquitous and easily human readable when displayed by computers ➲ But computers can only display HTML, not process it ➲ Therefore…

WE USE MICROFORMATS!! ➲ Microformats make it easy for you or anyone to share and reuse data in your webpages and content elsewhere For example, to populate an address book, browse social relationships, share reviews, tag content. ➲ For Instance, Card Example.

Card Example:

Calendar Example

Remember Semantic Web? ➲ Microformats are touted as an alternate way to enable the Semantic Web ➲ Not revolutionary, use info already out there Just organize and use smarter. ➲ Basically, just add tags that easily allow processing of web data.

Web Example

Firefox Operator Add-On ➲ Add- on: ing-operator ➲ Xtech schedule: ull

Rules of Microformats Club: ➲ 1 st Rule: Don't create microformats ➲ 2 nd Rule: Re-use already made microformats If you can't find one, you haven't done enough research ➲ 3 rd Rule: Don't tell anyone about microformats ➲ 4 th Rule: Disregard the 3 rd rule

Answer to Handout Ira Larkin Thompson USNA First Level Annapolis, MD, This hCard created with the hCard creator.