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2007-07-08T17:18:21Z

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<h1> xFolk (RC1) </h1>

'''xFolk''' is a simple and open format for publishing collections of bookmarks. It better enables services for improving user experience and sharing data in web-based bookmarking software. xFolk may be embedded in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. It is one of several open [[microformats|microformat]] standards.

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== Draft Specification ==

=== Editor/Author ===
[http://thecommunityengine.com/ Bud Gibson], [http://thecommunityengine.com The Community Engine]

=== Copyright ===
{{MicroFormatCopyrightStatement2005}}

=== Patents ===
{{MicroFormatPatentStatement}}

=== Inspiration and Acknowledgments ===
Thanks to: [http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/~plaut/ David Plaut] who introduced me to the idea that items may partially belong to many categories at once. More recently, thanks to: [http://tantek.com/ Tantek Çelik], [http://epeus.blogspot.com/ Kevin Marks], [http://steve.osdir.com/ Steve Mallet], [http://hybernaut.com/ Brian DelVecchio], and [http://blogmarks.net François Hodierne] who have contributed to the development of xFolk with thoughtful critiques and implementations.

== Introduction ==
Social bookmarking services let users save and tag bookmarks to share with other users. Over the past year, the number of these services has mushroomed to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking over 20], with popular examples including: [http://del.icio.us del.icio.us], [http://furl.net furl], [http://de.lirio.us de.lirio.us], [http://jots.com jots], and [http://blogmarks.net blogmarks].

Lack of an open, interoperable data standard is a major issue in using social bookmarking services. An open standard would make it possible to easily collect social bookmark data and remix it to invent new services along the lines of [http://gataga.com gataga]'s experimental bookmark search engine. An open standard would also make it possible to write javascripts that work across services [http://johnvey.com/features/deliciousdirector/ as some currently do for del.icio.us], enabling across-the-board improvements in user experience.

xFolk is an open social bookmarking standard that aims to achieve both benefits. Social bookmarking services that adopt xFolk will continue to differentiate themselves with data services. But, the data itself will be easy to manipulate by third party scripts and easy to share. As a result, bookmarking services will be able to offer a wider array of options to their users at low cost and focus on what truly differentiates them. Individuals or groups operating standalone bookmark repositories will have access to a wider array of functionality than they can produce on their own.

== Semantic XHTML Design Principles ==
{{semantic-xhtml-design-principles}}

== Format ==
Extensive analysis of social bookmarking services and linkblogs, reported on [http://thecommunityengine.com/home/archives/xfolk elsewhere], reveals that the data published by both bookmarking services and '''many''' different linkblogs are described by the following implied schema:

* A bookmarked or tagged link.
* A title for the entry.
* Tags for the link.
* An extended description or summary of the link.

As demonstrated in early iterations of the xFolk standard, this general schema can be translated into markup by:

# creating a container element for each entry of class <code>xfolkentry</code>,
# using an <a> element for the bookmarked or tagged link of class <code>taggedlink</code>,
# using title attribute for the tagged link <a> element, if it exists, as the entry title, otherwise using the element value,
# using [[reltag|RelTag]] for the tags, and
# using a container element of class <code>description</code>, such as

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