history-of-microformats

2008-12-20T02:05:54Z

AcelvArlad: basvigetda

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<h1> microformats history </h1>

:'''Other uses: for work towards a history microformat, see [[history-examples]] and consider simply using [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] to document events occuring in the past. See [[history-disambiguation]] for more uses.'''

This page is for documenting the history of [[microformats]], both conceptually, and by name.

== 2003 ==
* 2003-03-?? rel="friend" proposed by Tantek at SXSW "Beyond Blogging" Session
* XFN beta test
* 2003-12-15 [http://gmpg.org/xfn/ XFN] 1.0 launched by Tantek Ãelik, Eric Meyer, Matthew Mullenweg

== 2004 ==
* 2004-02-11 [http://tantek.com/log/2004/02.html#d11t1108 term 'lowercase semantic web' publicly introduced] and [http://wiki.oreillynet.com/etech/index.cgi?RealWorldSemantics defined] by [http://tantek.com/log/ Tantek Ãelik] (possibly as early as 2004-01. checking for earlier references...)
* [http://tantek.com/presentations/2004etech/realworldsemanticspres.html term 'microformat' introduced and defined]

* [[hcard|hCard]] conceived, introduced, blogged. See [[hcard-history|hCard history]] for more.
* [[hcalendar|hCalendar]]

* FOO Camp 2004 sessions

== 2005 ==
* [[hreview|hReview"]] (CFP, examples, draft. 0.1, 0.2)
* May: [[microformats|Microformats]] Track at WWW2005 Dev-Day
* 2005-06-20: [http://microformats.org microformats.org] launched at Supernova workshop

* FOO Camp 2005 Microformats Lab

== 2006 ==
* many more microformats proposed

== How to add things ==
The history is chronologically (not reverse) ordered (earliest first).

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.
* [http://gmpg.org/history GMPG history] for GMPG specific events.
* The "history" tab (in between "edit" and "protect" in the MediaWiki UI at the top) of each [[Main_Page|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 [http://developers.technorati.com 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 each microformat first proposed (e.g. [[hcard|hCard]], [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] etc.)
* '''Specs.''' When a "solid" version for a microformat was published/announced (and follow-ups, e.g. [[hreview|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 [http://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/chicagogd.php Chicago Manual of Style citation] info.

=== Things better documented elsewhere ===
This page is for the history of ''microformats'' and is thus scoped to just that. Microformats are of course built upon many other technologies and concepts, but let's avoid diluting this page with items which are not specific to microformats, even if they are related. I've moved some content to the following pages which folks are free to add more to if they wish.
* [[history-of-the-web]]
* [[history-of-markup]]

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