history-of-microformats
microformats history
Overview
The history of microformats, both conceptually, and by name.
Chronologically (not reverse) ordered (earliest first).
Need Help!
The history is greatly in need of further documentation with specific dates. Please contribute what you can find and cite/hyperlink sources!
Here are some sources to mine for historical facts related to microformats:
- presentations for a list of presentations / sessions on microformats which themselves often contain quite a bit of historical information.
- GMPG history for GMPG specific events.
- The "history" tab (in between "edit" and "protect" in the MediaWiki UI at the top) of each microformats specification is a useful place to find datetimes for when specific significant implementations and examples in the wild were launched/published (or references to when they were lauched/published).
- The Technorati Developer's wiki is useful for wiki edit histories before 2005-06-20
Things to document in the history record
- Terms. When was a term first introduced, by whom, etc.
- Microformats. When was a microformat first proposed (e.g. hCard etc.
- Specs. When a "solid" version for a microformat was published/announced (and follow-ups, e.g. hReview 0.1, 0.2, 0.3), when were microformats specifications first introduced.
- Presentations. When each live (in-person) presentation occured (yes I realize this will thus become a superset of the presentations page, that's ok.)
- Papers/Posters. When each formal paper/poster on microformats was published (e.g. XFN at 2004 ACM HyperText, XMDP at WWW2005, Microformats at WWW2006 etc.)
- Print articles. When each *print* article on microformats was published. Please provide full Chicago Manual of Style citation info.
1991
1991-08-06 Tim Berners-Lee posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup (see History of the World Wide Web)
1998
- 1998-04-12 In a footnote to his paper on dictionaries, Robert Rothenburg writes:
What is missing is an element for marking up "proper names" (names of people, geographic locations, institutions, or even scientific names such as genus/species) and other special terms ("keywords" that may not be appropriate for including in the META elements but useful for users of a collection of documents).
2003
- 2003-03-?? rel="friend" proposed by Tantek at SXSW "Beyond Blogging" Session
- XFN beta test
- 2003-12-15 XFN 1.0 launched by Tantek Çelik, Eric Meyer, Matthew Mullenweg
2004
- 2004-02-11 term 'lowercase semantic web' publicly introduced and defined by Tantek Çelik (possibly as early as 2004-01. checking for earlier references...)
- term 'microformat' introduced and defined
- FOO Camp 2004 sessions
2005
- hReview" (CFP, examples, draft. 0.1, 0.2)
- May: Microformats Track at WWW2005 Dev-Day
- 2005-06-20: microformats.org launched at Supernova workshop
- FOO Camp 2005 Microformats Lab
2006
- many more microformats proposed