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== to be sorted by date ==
Help expand this page by adding articles about microformats in reverse-chronological order (newest first).
* [http://www.digital-web.com/articles/microformats_primer/ Digital Web Magazine: Microformats Primer] by Garrett Dimon
 
* [http://www.gr0w.com/articles/design/an_extra_side_to_web_standards_based_design/ An Extra SIDE to Web Standards Based Design] - How Semantic Information Design Ethics (SIDE) and a few readily available techniques can help heal the Web, by Jon Tan. See also his [http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/193/193.css&page=0 CSS Zen Garden "Leggo my ego" entry].
Check the following for sources:
* [http://thedredge.org/ Andrew D. Hume] has written a blog post [http://thedredge.org/2005/07/introducing-microformats/ introducing microformats] and another one on [http://usabletype.com/articles/2005/usable-microformats/ usable microformats].
* Collect from [http://twitter.com/microformats/favorites microformats' twitter favorites]
* [http://24ways.org/advent/practical-microformats-with-hcard Practical Microformats with hCard] by Drew McLellan
* [https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=microformats Google News search]
* [http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/1/hcard Jesse Skinner's introduction to hCard]
* Yahoo News
* [http://blog.usweb.com/ Shaun Shull's] great post on [http://blog.usweb.com/archives/how-microformats-affect-search-engine-optimization-seo How Microformats Affect Seearch Engine Optimization]
 
* [http://blogbusinesssummit.com/2006/04/microformats_in.htm Blog Business Summit: Microformats in Plain English: the Promise of Simple Business to Business Data Exchange] by Steve Broback
== 2012 ==
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*<span class="h-entry hentry"><time class="dt-published published">2012-07-03</time>: <span class="p-entry-summary entry-summary ">notizBlog: <cite class="p-name entry-title">Microformats: The next generation</cite> by <span class="p-author author h-card vcard"><span class="fn">Matthias Pfefferle</span></span>: <span class="u-url url">http://notizblog.org/2012/07/03/microformats-the-next-generation</span></span></span> (Deutsch)
 
*<span class="h-entry hentry"><time class="dt-published published">2012-06-27</time>: <span class="p-entry-summary entry-summary ">WIRED: <cite class="p-name entry-title">Microformats.org Celebrates 7 Years With Microformats 2.0</cite> by <span class="p-author author h-card vcard"><span class="fn">Scott Gilbertson</span></span>: <span class="u-url url">http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/06/microformats-org-celebrates-7-years-microformats-2-0/</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="h-entry hentry"><time class="dt-published published">2012-06-14</time>: <span class="p-entry-summary entry-summary "><cite class="p-name entry-title">Why use hReview microformat?</cite> by <span class="p-author author h-card vcard"><span class="fn">Virginia DeBolt</span></span>: <span class="u-url url">http://www.webteacher.ws/2012/06/14/why-use-hreview-microformat
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*<span class="h-entry hentry"><time class="dt-published published">2012-06-04</time>: <span class="p-entry-summary entry-summary">.net magazine: <cite class="p-name entry-title ">Emily Lewis on the future of microformats</cite> by <span class="p-author author h-card vcard"><span class="fn">Tanya Combrinck</span></span>: <span class="u-url url">http://www.netmagazine.com/interviews/emily-lewis-future-microformats
</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="h-entry hentry"><time class="dt-published published">2012-01-10</time>: <span class="p-entry-summary entry-summary "><cite class="p-name entry-title">Simplified Microformats for Your WordPress Website</cite> by <span class="p-author author h-card vcard"><span class="fn">Zia Ahmed</span></span>: <span class="u-url url">http://www.wordpressintegration.com/blog/simplified-microformats-for-your-wordpress-website/</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry h-entry"><time class="published dt-published">2012-01-09</time>: <span class="entry-summary p-entry-summary"><cite class="entry-title p-name">How to enable hreview microformat on your blog and get more traffic!</cite> by <span class="author p-author vcard h-card"><span class="fn">Michael Aulia</span></span>: <span class="url u-url">http://www.cravingtech.com/how-to-enable-hreview-microformat-on-your-blog-and-get-more-traffic.html</span></span></span>
 
== 2011 ==
*<span class="hentry h-entry"><time class="published dt-published">2011-11-29</time>: <span lang="fr" class="entry-summary p-entry-summary"><cite class="entry-title p-entry-title">Les microformats au service du SEO</cite> by <span class="author p-author vcard h-card"><span class="fn">Nebseo</span></span>: <span class="url u-url">http://www.nebseo.com/seo/les-microformats-au-service-du-seo/</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2011-11-01</span>: <span class="entry-summary"><cite class="entry-title">Fresh Egg Gains Insight into Microformats</cite> by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Kimberley Newey</span></span>: <span class="url">http://www.freshegg.com/blog/fresh-egg-gains-insight-microformats_9546</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2011-09-29</span>: <span class="entry-summary">Search Engine Land: <cite class="entry-title">Employing Microformats & Structured Data For Enhanced Search Engine Visibility</cite> by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Aaron Bradley</span></span>: <span class="url">http://searchengineland.com/employing-microformats-structured-data-for-enhanced-search-engine-visibility-94122</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><time class="published">2011-09-26</time> (<time class="updated">2011-12-08</time>) : <span class="entry-summary"><cite class="entry-title">Google recommends Schema.org Microdata, but only supports the old Microformats</cite> by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Ruben Timmerman</span></span>: <span class="url">http://devblog.springest.com/google-recommends-schema-dot-org-microdata-but-only-supports-the-old-microformats</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry h-entry"><time class="published dt-published">2011-08-17</time>: <span class="entry-summary p-entry-summary"><cite class="entry-title p-entry-title">How to implement rel=author on WordPress blogs</cite> by <span class="author p-author vcard h-card"><span class="fn">Michael Aulia</span></span>: <span class="url u-url">http://www.cravingtech.com/how-to-implement-relauthor-on-wordpress-blogs.html</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2011-05-23</span>: <span class="entry-summary"><cite class="entry-title">hReview Testimonials from SMB Sites Starting to Show in Places</cite> by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Mike Olean</span></span>: <span class="url">http://blumenthals.com/blog/2011/05/23/hreview-testimonials-from-smb-sites-starting-to-show-in-places/</span></span></span>
 
* <span class="hentry"><span class="published">2011-02-01</span> <span class="entry-summary">Government Technology: <cite class="entry-title">[http://www.govtech.com/e-government/Web-30-Could-Lead-to-E-Government-That-Anticipates-Citizens-Needs.html Web 3.0 Could Lead to E-Government That Anticipates Citizens’ Needs]</cite></span> by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Andy Opsahl</span></span>: <span class="url">http://www.govtech.com/e-government/Web-30-Could-Lead-to-E-Government-That-Anticipates-Citizens-Needs.html</span></span> ([http://www.govtech.com/e-government/Web-30-Could-Lead-to-E-Government-That-Anticipates-Citizens-Needs.html?page=2 page 2] mentions microformatting).
 
== 2010 ==
* <span class="hentry"><span class="published">2010-12-01</span> <span class="entry-summary">FUMSI: <cite class="entry-title">[http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/62328 Microformats: Digging Deeper into the Web]</cite></span> by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Ben Ward</span></span>: <span class="url">http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/62328</span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2010-11-01</span>: <span class="entry-summary"><cite class="entry-title">Google Places Search to IYPs – What is the Message? Go Microformats, Young Man!</cite> by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Mike Olean</span></span>: <span class="url">http://blumenthals.com/blog/2010/11/01/google-places-search-to-iyps-go-microformats-young-man/</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2010-08-17</span>: <span class="entry-summary"><cite class="entry-title">[http://html5doctor.com/microformats/ Extending HTML5 — Microformats]</cite> by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Oli Studholme</span></span>: <span class="url">http://html5doctor.com/microformats/</span></span></span>
 
* <span class="hentry"><span class="published">2010-06-26</span> <span class="entry-summary">Antezeta Web Marketing: <cite class="entry-title">[http://antezeta.com/news/google-rich-snippets-microformats Move over Basic Search Results, Google Rich Snippets are here]</cite></span> by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Sean Carlos</span></span>: <span class="url">http://antezeta.com/news/google-rich-snippets-microformats</span></span>
 
 
...many more! Collect from http://twitter.com/microformats/favourites
 
== 2009 ==
* <span class="hentry"><span class="published">2009-08-25</span> <span class="entry-summary">MIX Online: <cite class="entry-title">[http://visitmix.com/Articles/The-Value-Class-Pattern The Value Class Pattern]</cite></span> by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Jeremy Keith</span></span>: <span class="url">http://visitmix.com/Articles/The-Value-Class-Pattern</span></span>
 
* <span class="hentry"><span class="published">2009-08-25</span> <span class="entry-summary">MIX Online: <cite class="entry-title">[http://visitmix.com/Articles/Microformats-Role-Play Microformats Role Play]</cite></span> by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Emily Lewis</span></span>: <span class="url"> http://visitmix.com/Articles/Microformats-Role-Play  </span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2009-08-17</span>: <span class="entry-summary"><cite class="entry-title">[http://seogadget.co.uk/the-future-of-seo-structured-markup/ The Future Of SEO – Structured Markup]</cite> by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn"> [[User:Richardbaxter|Richard Baxter]]</span></span>: <span class="url">http://seogadget.co.uk/the-future-of-seo-structured-markup/</span></span></span>
 
== 2008 ==
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2008-11-20</span>: <span class="entry-summary"><cite class="entry-title">Getting Semantic With Microformats, Part 7: Themes &amp; Issues</cite> by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Emily</span> <abbr class="additional-name">P.</abbr> <span class="family-name">Lewis</span></span> (<span class="url">http://www.ablognotlimited.com/</span>)</span>: <span class="url">http://www.ablognotlimited.com/articles/getting-semantic-with-microformats-part-7-themes-and-issues/</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2008-11-10</span>: <span class="entry-summary"><cite class="entry-title">Getting Semantic With Microformats, Part 6: hResume</cite> by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Emily</span> <abbr class="additional-name">P.</abbr> <span class="family-name">Lewis</span></span> (<span class="url">http://www.ablognotlimited.com/</span>)</span>: <span class="url">http://www.ablognotlimited.com/articles/getting-semantic-with-microformats-part-6-hresume/</span></span></span>
 
* <span class="hentry"><span class="published">2008-10-21</span>: <span class="entry-summary"><cite class="entry-title">Microformats: The Quiet Revolution</cite> by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">John Allsopp</span> (<span class="url">http://visitmix.com/About/JohnAllsopp</span>)</span> : <span class="url">http://visitmix.com/Articles/Microformats-The-Quiet-Revolution</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2008-10-15</span>: <span class="entry-summary"><cite class="entry-title">Getting Semantic With Microformats, Part 5: hAtom</cite> by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Emily</span> <abbr class="additional-name">P.</abbr> <span class="family-name">Lewis</span></span> (<span class="url">http://www.ablognotlimited.com/</span>)</span>: <span class="url">http://www.ablognotlimited.com/articles/getting-semantic-with-microformats-part-5-hatom/</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2008-10-01</span>: <span class="entry-summary"><cite class="entry-title">Getting Semantic With Microformats, Part 4: hCalendar</cite> by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Emily</span> <abbr class="additional-name">P.</abbr> <span class="family-name">Lewis</span></span> (<span class="url">http://www.ablognotlimited.com/</span>)</span>: <span class="url">http://www.ablognotlimited.com/articles/getting-semantic-with-microformats-part-4-hcalendar/</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2008-09-22</span>: <span class="entry-summary"><cite class="entry-title">Getting Semantic With Microformats, Part 3: hCard</cite> by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Emily</span> <abbr class="additional-name">P.</abbr> <span class="family-name">Lewis</span></span> (<span class="url">http://www.ablognotlimited.com/</span>)</span>: <span class="url">http://www.ablognotlimited.com/articles/getting-semantic-with-microformats-part-3-hcard/</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2008-09-17</span>: <span class="entry-summary"><cite class="entry-title">Getting Semantic With Microformats, Part 2: XFN</cite> by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Emily</span> <abbr class="additional-name">P.</abbr> <span class="family-name">Lewis</span></span> (<span class="url">http://www.ablognotlimited.com/</span>)</span>: <span class="url">http://www.ablognotlimited.com/articles/getting-semantic-with-microformats-part-2-xfn/</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2008-09-09</span>: <span class="entry-summary"><cite class="entry-title">Getting Semantic With Microformats, Part 1: rel</cite> by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Emily</span> <abbr class="additional-name">P.</abbr> <span class="family-name">Lewis</span></span> (<span class="url">http://www.ablognotlimited.com/</span>)</span>: <span class="url">http://www.ablognotlimited.com/articles/getting-semantic-with-microformats-part-1-rel/</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2008-09-05</span>: <span class="entry-summary"><cite class="entry-title">Getting Semantic With Microformats, Introduction</cite> by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn n"><span class="given-name">Emily</span> <abbr class="additional-name">P.</abbr> <span class="family-name">Lewis</span></span> (<span class="url">http://www.ablognotlimited.com/</span>)</span>: <span class="url">http://www.ablognotlimited.com/articles/getting-semantic-with-microformats-introduction/</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2008-02-21</span>: <span class="entry-summary">''<cite class="entry-title">XFN encoding, extraction, and visualizations</cite>'' by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Brian Suda</span></span>: <span class="url">http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/xfn-encoding-extraction-and-visualizat/</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2008-02-21</span>: <span class="entry-summary">''<span class="entry-title">Microformats : comment microformater du contenu déjà existant ?</span>'' by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Thomas Parisot</span></span>: <span class="url">http://www.clever-age.com/veille/blog/microformats-comment-microformater-du-contenu-deja-existant.html</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2008-01-24</span>: <span class="entry-summary">''<span class="entry-title">Microformats introduction to content and user experience</span>'' by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Sarven Capadisli</span></span>: <span class="url">http://www.csarven.ca/microformats-introduction</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2008-01-11</span>: <span class="entry-summary">''<span class="entry-title">Microformats : republier et donner du sens aux contenus</span>'' by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Thomas Parisot</span></span>: <span class="url">http://www.clever-age.com/veille/blog/microformats-republier-et-donner-du-sens-aux-contenus.html</span></span></span>


== 2007 ==
== 2007 ==
* 2007-12-05 "[http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/the-magical-minimalism-of-microformats/ The Magical Minimalism of Microformats]" in The New York Times blog by Jacob Harris
 
* 2007-11-21 "[http://www.sitepoint.com/article/social-networks-take-friends/ Portable Social Networks: Take Your Friends with You]" by Brian Suda
*<span class="hentry h-entry"><time class="published dt-published">2007-12-19</time>: <span class="entry-summary p-entry-summary"><cite class="entry-title p-entry-title">Microformats are Awesome, Now Put Them to Work for Your Site</cite> by <span class="author p-author vcard h-card"><span class="fn">Scott Gilbertson</span></span>: <span class="url u-url">http://www.webmonkey.com/2007/12/microformats_are_awesome__now_put_them_to_work_for_your_site/</span></span></span>
* 2007-07-24 "[http://www.sitepoint.com/article/microformats-meaning-markup Microformats: More Meaning from Your Markup]" by Brian Suda
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2007-12-05</span>: <span class="entry-summary">''<span class="entry-title">The Magical Minimalism of Microformats</span>'' by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Jacob Harris</span></span> in The New York Times blog: <span class="url">http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/the-magical-minimalism-of-microformats/</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2007-11-21</span>: <span class="entry-summary">''<span class="entry-title">Portable Social Networks: Take Your Friends with You</span>'' by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Brian Suda</span></span>: <span class="url">http://www.sitepoint.com/article/social-networks-take-friends/</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2007-07-24</span>: <span class="entry-summary">''<span class="entry-title">Microformats: More Meaning from Your Markup</span>'' by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Brian Suda</span></span>: <span class="url">http://www.sitepoint.com/article/microformats-meaning-markup</span></span></span>
 
==2006==
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2006-04-02</span>: <span class="entry-summary">''<span class="entry-title">Blog Business Summit: Microformats in Plain English: the Promise of Simple Business to Business Data Exchange</span>'' by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Steve Broback</span></span>: <span class="url">http://blogbusinesssummit.com/2006/04/microformats_in.htm</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2006-01-29</span>: <span class="entry-summary">''<span class="entry-title">How Microformats Affect Seearch Engine Optimization</span>'' by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Shaun Shull</span></span>: <span class="url">http://blog.usweb.com/archives/how-microformats-affect-search-engine-optimization-seo</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2006-01-27</span>: <span class="entry-summary">''<span class="entry-title">Introduction to hCard</span>'' by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Jesse Skinner</span></span>: <span class="url">http://www.thefutureoftheweb.com/blog/2006/1/hcard</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2006-01-16</span>: <span class="entry-summary">''<span lang="pt-br" class="entry-title">Microformats: aprenda a descrever seus dados</span>'' (Microformats: Learn to describe your data) by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn"><span class="given-name">Henrique</span> Costa <span class="family-name">Pereira</span></span></span>: <span class="url">http://webinsider.uol.com.br/2006/01/16/microformats-aprenda-a-descrever-seus-dados/</span></span></span>
 
==2005==
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2005-12-06</span>: <span class="entry-summary">''<span class="entry-title">Practical Microformats with hCard</span>'' by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Drew McLellan</span></span>: <span class="url">http://24ways.org/advent/practical-microformats-with-hcard</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2005-11-17</span>: <span class="entry-summary">''<span class="entry-title">An Extra SIDE to Web Standards Based Design - How Semantic Information Design Ethics (SIDE) and a few readily available techniques can help heal the Web</span>'' by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Jon Tan</span></span>: <span class="url">http://www.gr0w.com/articles/design/an_extra_side_to_web_standards_based_design/</span></span></span>
**See also his [http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/193/193.css&page=0 CSS Zen Garden "Leggo my ego" entry].
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2005-11-14</span>: <span class="entry-summary">''<span class="entry-title">Microformats Primer</span>'' by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Garrett Dimon</span></span> in Digital Web Magazine: <span class="url">http://www.digital-web.com/articles/microformats_primer/</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2005-07-24</span>: <span class="entry-summary">''<span class="entry-title">Usable Microformats</span>'' by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Andrew D. Hume</span></span>: <span class="url">http://usabletype.com/weblog/usable-microformats/</span></span></span>
 
*<span class="hentry"><span class="published">2005-06-03</span>: <span class="entry-summary">''<span class="entry-title">Introducing microformats</span>'' by <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">Andrew D. Hume</span></span>: <span class="url">http://thedredge.org/2005/07/introducing-microformats/</span></span></span>


== Miscellaneous Reference ==
== Miscellaneous Reference ==


These are various intro-related links/articles which I haven't figured out yet how to incorporate. You may find them of interest. - [http://tantek.com/log/ Tantek]
These are various intro-related links/articles which we haven't figured out yet how to incorporate. You may find them of interest.


* [http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/93/ Data First vs. Structure First]
* [http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/93/ Data First vs. Structure First]
** [http://tantek.com/log/ Tantek] says: In many ways it is actually *far* worse than that post conveys.  The "typical" programmer literally loves spending far more time worrying about and designing the structure for structure's sake, than data, and even less so, "real world" data (current behaviors etc.). Hence we have taken the directly opposite tack with microformats when looking to solve a problem.
** [http://tantek.com/log/ Tantek] says: In many ways it is actually *far* worse than that post conveys.  The "typical" programmer literally loves spending far more time worrying about and designing the structure for structure's sake, than data, and even less so, "real world" data (current behaviors etc.). Hence we have taken the directly opposite tack with microformats when looking to solve a problem.
*** Zeroeth, define the real-world problem. If you can't do this, then stop.
*** Zeroeth, define the real-world problem. If you can't do this, then stop.
*** First, look at real-world usage (data).
*** First, look at real-world usage (data).
*** Second, what previous standards are people actually using today?  If there is more than one, then lean towards those with the better adoption.
*** Second, what previous standards are people actually using today?  If there is more than one, then lean towards those with the better adoption.
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== See Also ==
== See Also ==
* [[press]]
* [[press]]
* [[hcard-articles]]

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Help expand this page by adding articles about microformats in reverse-chronological order (newest first).

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2012

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2010

...many more! Collect from http://twitter.com/microformats/favourites

2009

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2006

2005

Miscellaneous Reference

These are various intro-related links/articles which we haven't figured out yet how to incorporate. You may find them of interest.

  • Data First vs. Structure First
    • Tantek says: In many ways it is actually *far* worse than that post conveys. The "typical" programmer literally loves spending far more time worrying about and designing the structure for structure's sake, than data, and even less so, "real world" data (current behaviors etc.). Hence we have taken the directly opposite tack with microformats when looking to solve a problem.
      • Zeroeth, define the real-world problem. If you can't do this, then stop.
      • First, look at real-world usage (data).
      • Second, what previous standards are people actually using today? If there is more than one, then lean towards those with the better adoption.
      • And only after those first two do we bother to pay attention to theoretical standards, those that have been invented (whether by individuals, committees), but haven't seen much if any actual adoption.
  • 2000-03-21 Dan Connolly on human-consumable information: (strong emphasis added)
    • I believe that one of the best ways to transition into RDF, if not a long-term deployment strategy for RDF, is to manage the information in human-consumable form (XHTML) annotated with just enough info to extract the RDF statements that the human info is intended to convey. In other words: using a relational database or some sort of native RDF data store, and spitting out HTML dynamically, is a lot of infrastructure to operate and probably not worth it for lots of interesting cases. We all know that we have to produce a human-readable version of the thing... why not use that as the primary source?

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