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<div><entry-title>Introduction to Microformats</entry-title><br />
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== What are Microformats? ==<br />
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Microformats are a way of adding simple markup to human-readable data items such as events, contact details or locations, on web pages, so that the information in them can be extracted by software and indexed, searched for, saved, cross-referenced or combined.<br />
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More technically, they are items of semantic markup, using just standard "plain old semantic (X)HTML" (i.e. "[[POSH]]") with a set of common [[class-names]] and "[[rel]]" values. They are open and available, freely, for anyone to use.<br />
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== Why Microformats ==<br />
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Why did we come up with microformats?<br />
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In short, microformats are the convergence of a number of trends:<br />
# a logical next step in the evolution of web design and information architecture<br />
# a way for people and organisations to publish richer information themselves, without having to rely upon centralized services<br />
# an acknowledgement that (outside of speci<span class="notspam">alist</span> areas) "traditional" metadata efforts have either failed or taken so long to garner any adoption, that a new approach was necessary<br />
# a way to use [[(X)HTML]] for data.<br />
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== The Appeal to Simplicity ==<br />
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* Microformats are a simple effort which has appealed to many frustrated with previous complex efforts. One parallel that can be drawn is to REST in the web services world - for more on REST see [[suggested-reading#REST|suggested reading on REST]].<br />
* See: [http://www.justinleavesley.com/journal/2005/7/28/web-services-and-the-innovators-dilemma.html Web Services and the Innovators Dilemma] by Justin Leavesley<br />
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==See also==<br />
* A list of [[notable-users|some notable users]].<br />
* Recent [[press]] interviews and [[articles]] are also a good introduction.<br />
* See microformat [[presentations]] for more background and introductory material on [[microformats]].<br />
* Listen to [[podcasts]] about microformats.<br />
* Read the [[faq|FAQs]] for general microformat queries.<br />
* More [[suggested-reading|suggested reading]]<br />
* [[implement|So you want to implement microformats?]]<br />
* [[presentations]]<br />
* [[podcasts]]<br />
* [http://thnlnk.com/download-tvshows/nude.Pamela.Anderson.FILMED.SECRET.out/242 introductory material]<br />
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== external ==<br />
* Sitepoint has a nice introductory tutorial: [http://reference.sitepoint.com/html/microformats Microformats - Plugging the Gaps in HTML]<br />
* Premasagar has written up [http://premasagar.com/microformats/compound/ some nice microformats examples with source].</div>Downloadtvshows