Microformats

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Contents 1 What are microformats? 1.1 for example 2 Microformats at A&M 3 Reading 3.1 Correlated?

What are microformats?

Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Learn more about microformats at microformats.org.

for example

• hCard
• hCalendar

Microformats at A&M

• Calendar.tamu.edu uses hcalendar
• 9/2007: Mays Business School all entries in the directory and a generic hcard on all pages
• 9/2007: Texas A&M Engineering generic hcard on all pages, hcal on Events page

Reading

• Microformats: is that thing still around?
• Dan Cederholm's Microformats Slides
• Microformats, yes they are that easy

Correlated?

• RDFa
  • http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/
  • http://www.standards-schmandards.com/2007/rdfa-and-accessibility/