introduction
<entry-title>Introdução aos Microformats</entry-title>
O que são Microformats?
Microformats é uma forma simples de adicionar marcas para interpretação humana de diferentes tipos de informação como por exemplo eventos, detalhes de contactos ou localizações, em páginas web, de forma a que a informação aí contida possa ser extraída por software para ser indexada, pesquisada, guardada, referenciada ou combinada.
De uma forma mais técnica, são items ou marcas semânticas que recorrem apenas ao standard "plain old semantic (X)HTML" (i.e. "POSH") através de um conjunto de class-names comuns e valores do atributo "rel". São um formato aberto e estão disponíveis de forma gratuita para todos.
Porquê Microformats
Porque é que nós aparecemos com os microformats?
In short, microformats are the convergence of a number of trends:
- a logical next step in the evolution of web design and information architecture
- a way for people and organisations to publish richer information themselves, without having to rely upon centralized services
- an acknowledgement that (outside of specialist areas) "traditional" metadata efforts have either failed or taken so long to garner any adoption, that a new approach was necessary
- a way to use (X)HTML for data.
O apelo à Simplicidade
- Microformats are a simple effort which has appealed to many frustrated with previous complex efforts. One parallel that can be drawn is to REST in the web services world - for more on REST see suggested reading on REST.
- See: Web Services and the Innovators Dilemma by Justin Leavesley
Ver ainda
- A list of some notable users.
- Recent press interviews and articles are also a good introduction.
- See microformat presentations for more background and introductory material on microformats.
- Listen to podcasts about microformats.
- Read the FAQs for general microformat queries.
- More suggested reading
- So you want to implement microformats?
- presentations
- podcasts
- testimonials
Externo
- Sitepoint has a nice introductory tutorial: Microformats - Plugging the Gaps in HTML
- Premasagar has written up some nice microformats examples with source.