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* Late-90s Mozilla/Netscape browser had built-in understanding of a sitemaps format  expressed in RDF. Technical details are likely buried in Mozilla CVS [[http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/netscape-rallies-content-community-around-leading-web-development-technologies-of-today-and-tomorrow---javascript-xml-and-rdf-77409947.html|some press releases still survive]]. The vocabulary encoded a sitemap as a graph structure, using a 'child' property to represent hierarchy, as in other areas of Mozilla (e.g. [[http://books.mozdev.org/html/mozilla-chp-10-sect-2.html see Mozilla docs]], [[https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Thunderbird/Mail_and_RDF]]).  
* Late-90s Mozilla/Netscape browser had built-in understanding of a sitemaps format  expressed in RDF. Technical details are likely buried in Mozilla CVS [http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/netscape-rallies-content-community-around-leading-web-development-technologies-of-today-and-tomorrow---javascript-xml-and-rdf-77409947.html|some press releases still survive]. The vocabulary encoded a sitemap as a graph structure, using a 'child' property to represent hierarchy, as in other areas of Mozilla (e.g. [http://books.mozdev.org/html/mozilla-chp-10-sect-2.html see Mozilla docs], [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Thunderbird/Mail_and_RDF mail/news]).  
* Mozilla's RDF sitemaps were preceded by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Content_Framework|Meta Content Format]] (MCF) sitemaps (Netscape took MCF from Apple ~1997). MCF sitemaps described a site hierarchy using a network of linked text files that summarised the site structure. MCF was an [[http://xml.coverpages.org/alschulerMCF.html|ancestor]] of both RSS and RDF.
* Mozilla's RDF sitemaps were preceded by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Content_Framework|Meta Content Format] (MCF) sitemaps (Netscape took MCF from Apple ~1997). MCF sitemaps described a site hierarchy using a network of linked text files that summarised the site structure. MCF was an [http://xml.coverpages.org/alschulerMCF.html ancestor] of both RSS and RDF.
* ILRT / University of Bristol had a server-based implementation of the same format (now code-rotted), and experiments with alternatives that instead used more HTML concepts: see [[http://web.archive.org/web/20000815090823/http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/rdf-dev/purls/papers/sitemap/|1999 draft spec]]
* ILRT / University of Bristol had a server-based implementation of the same format (now code-rotted), and experiments with alternatives that instead used more HTML concepts: see [http://web.archive.org/web/20000815090823/http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/rdf-dev/purls/papers/sitemap/|1999 draft spec]
* more recent work around RDF has focussed on describing hierarchies of topics using the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Knowledge_Organization_System SKOS vocabulary]]; this has gained significant traction in the library community, and many thesauri are now shared using SKOS. However it is not widely used to annotate in-page topic hierarchies. See [[http://ckan.net/tag/format-skos|CKAN list of datasets using SKOS]].
* more recent work around RDF has focussed on describing hierarchies of topics using the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Knowledge_Organization_System SKOS vocabulary]; this has gained significant traction in the library community, and many thesauri are now shared using SKOS. However it is not widely used to annotate in-page topic hierarchies. See [http://ckan.net/tag/format-skos|CKAN list of datasets using SKOS].
* Google Rich Snippets [[http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=185417|have a 'breadcrumbs' construct]], as does its [[http://schema.org/WebPage|schema.org successor]]
* Google Rich Snippets [http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=185417|have a 'breadcrumbs' construct], as does its [http://schema.org/WebPage|schema.org successor]


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This page is a collection of research regarding previous breadcrumbs formats towards the development of a breadcrumbs vocabulary and microformat per the process.

Bing breadcrumbs

Bing breadcrumbs format: http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/hh207240.aspx

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This strays more into sitemaps and topic description; related themes...

  • Late-90s Mozilla/Netscape browser had built-in understanding of a sitemaps format expressed in RDF. Technical details are likely buried in Mozilla CVS press releases still survive. The vocabulary encoded a sitemap as a graph structure, using a 'child' property to represent hierarchy, as in other areas of Mozilla (e.g. see Mozilla docs, mail/news).
  • Mozilla's RDF sitemaps were preceded by Content Format (MCF) sitemaps (Netscape took MCF from Apple ~1997). MCF sitemaps described a site hierarchy using a network of linked text files that summarised the site structure. MCF was an ancestor of both RSS and RDF.
  • ILRT / University of Bristol had a server-based implementation of the same format (now code-rotted), and experiments with alternatives that instead used more HTML concepts: see draft spec
  • more recent work around RDF has focussed on describing hierarchies of topics using the SKOS vocabulary; this has gained significant traction in the library community, and many thesauri are now shared using SKOS. However it is not widely used to annotate in-page topic hierarchies. See list of datasets using SKOS.
  • Google Rich Snippets a 'breadcrumbs' construct, as does its successor

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