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Revision as of 16:17, 22 August 2009
This is a page for tracking the effort to develop a news microformat for publishing news on the web.
The Problem
While there are dozens of formats used on thousands of news sites, there is no single standardized format for presentation of news on the web. Having a standardized news format for web publishing would significantly benefit readers, aggregators, search engines and researchers alike. With no standard format for news, search engines are forced to parse unstructured data, and errors can be costly (see Wired.com, 2008).
Per the microformats process: