uid

UID

This page documents the effort to define a microformat for identifiers. Identifiers are currently found all over the web but not in a predictable way. Examples of identifiers include ISBN, ISSN UPC, ASIN, MusicBrainz IDs. Indeed it could be argued that URLs themselves are identifiers in the abstract. How cool would it be to able to identify, capture and repurpose these while browsing the web? First step is to simply allow them to be discovered.

Per the microformats process

• uid-examples
• uid-formats
• uid-brainstorming

Please take a look, and contribute your thoughts and ideas.