[uf-discuss] Storing Microformats

[Tom Morris]

On 9/17/07, Paul Kinlan <paul.kinlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> One of the other ideas that I am toying with is a Microformat spider,
> that crawls the web looking for microformats, storing them and then
> allowing them to be searched.   My question is: How are people storing
> the data present in microformats so that they can be searched and
> maintained and consumed in applications etc?
>

Another possible approach is to use an RDF triple store. You can then
use the GRDDL transformation standard to extract RDF data out of
microformats (they exist for a fair few microformats), then store that
data in a triple store. It may not be appropriate for some
microformats (XOXO comes to mind), but for a lot of them it'd be quite
feasible. And you could then query it with SPARQL, a SQL-like language
for RDF.

If you come up with a good way of mapping microformats to a relational
database, it would seem like an ideal thing to share on the wiki.

-- 
Tom Morris
http://tommorris.org/