events/2011-03-sxsw

<entry-title>South By Southwest Interactive 2011</entry-title>

Microformats events, content and so forth at SXSWi.

The Future of Microformats Panel

Featuring:

• Frances Berriman
• Ben Ward
• Tantek Çelik
• Paul Tarjan

140 Character Summary for SXSW documentation

TBD

Brainstorming the Panel

Figure out the direction, content and general flow of the panel.

Subjects to Cover

• Summarize the state of Microformats
  • “Are microformats dead?” (not necessarily in those terms…)
  • Major implementations:
    • Google search results
    • Could demonstrate Twitter Tweet Button using rel=me to infer data from embedding pages
    • Glenn Jones has a few neat things too
      • Possibly demo each very quickly? Glenn was asking about doing a demo too.
  • What microformats are there which are stable, ‘complete’?
• Cover structured data in general:
  • What's microdata? What's it for? Where is it supported?
  • RDFa: Depending on further checking of the figures cited in Peter Mika's blog post (http://tripletalk.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/rdfa-deployment-across-the-web), what vocabularies are emerging in the RDFa space?
    • If the figures are wrong though, or there aren't any major vocabularies, then can probably skip over this. — Ben
• What's happening this year?
  • Any new vocabularies expected to be stable?
  • VCard 4.0, and how that will tie into hCard
  • HTML5, and how the time element affects hCalendar, hAtom, etc.
  • “Microformats 2” (datatype prefixes, generic tree parsing.)
    • If this is mentioned at all, assuming Tantek is even continuing this work at all(?), I am firmly of the view that it needs to framed as an exploration around a use case, not an accepted progression of microformats as a whole. — Ben
  • If we're covering individually led efforts though, Ben would like to frame up the concept of rich data containers and expanding parsing rules for those (vcalendar TV listings and the like.)