This is about building an iTunes store-style interface to the web’s bibliographic information. I’ve been pushing along the hCite Microformat process, which will set a standard for HTML publishers to add simple semantic markup to their pages that programs like BibDesk can read as citation metadata.
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We don’t need to add specific terms to the vocabulary of HTML, we need to add a mechanism that allows semantic richness to be added to a document as required. In technical terms, we need to make HTML extensible. HTML 5 proposes no mechanism for extensibility.
I think that I do understand the value of RDF — in theory — but in my world — the social web — I’ve seen very few success stories, or examples in the wild, where RDF and its sibling technologies have made anything demonstrably easier or more ubiquitous. I’ve had the praises of RDF et al sung to me for many years, and yet I consistently see companies large and small run for the hills when it’s mentioned.
Short movie on using GeoMaker to take a set of location names and translate them into lat/long coordinates for viewing on Yahoo Maps, includes some simple validation and false positive checking.
The web is designed to be consumed by humans, and much of the rich, useful information our websites contain, is inaccessible to machines. People can cope with all sorts of variations in layout, spelling, capitalization, color, position, and so on, and still absorb the intended meaning from the page. Machines, on the other hand, need some help. A new kind of web—a semantic web—would be made up of information marked up in such a way that software can also easily understand it. Before considering how we might achieve such a web, let’s look at what we might be able to do with it.
"Please, Mr Kennedy, how come my Mac isn’t a mange-ridden whore-house of cross-site-email-virus sluttery? Because mail clients use regular, modern rendering engines but do not execute JavaScript. You dick." PMSL
My article on Experts Exchange about microformats.
Firefox geliştiricilerinin uzun süredir duyurusunu yaptığı yenilikleriyle yeni bir Firefox sürümü geçtiğimiz günlerde (30 Haziran) çıktı. Üstelik bu sürümde, sadece görsel değişiklikler değil, işlevsel gelişmeler de olmuş. Pek bu gelişmeler neler? Beta olarak yayına sürülen Firefox 3.5 bize yeni neler getirdi? Güvenlik Kötü Yazılıma Karşı (Geliştirme) Firefox, henüz yüklemeden önce bütün sayfayı tarıyor (Tabii ki kısa bir sürede) . Açtığınız sayfa bir saldırı sayfasıysa sizi heme
A Really Little Content Management System (CMS)
If you aren’t already following along, I highly recommend checking out the How To Create A WordPress Theme tutorial series by Ian Stewart (ThemeShaper.com) . This 12-part series (8 complete at the time of this writing) aims to take you from nothing to a fully functional, semantically rich, flexible WordPress theme in digestible chunks. Along the way, Ian describes the changes being made, and why you are making them. In this way, you can gain a basic understanding of the roles of the various
July 1st, 2009 Goto commentsLeave a comment I just noticed that Wordpress comments are marked as “rel=external nofollow”. I got curious as to what that meant for SEO, as a tactic for SEO’s (and for spammers) has commonly been to deluge blogs with comments, hoping to thereby increase link popularity. The best explanation I’ve found for this is on the Microformats Wiki, which explains the subtle differences between “nofollow”, “external” and the other “rel=” attributes. In terms of what actual
hCard is a simple, open, distributed format for representing people, companies, organizations, and places, using a 1:1 representation of vCard (RFC2426) properties and values in semantic HTML or XHTML. hCard is one of several open microformat standards suitable for embedding in HTML, XHTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. Want to get started with writing an hCard? Use the hCard creator to write up some contact information and publish it, or follow the hCard authoring tips to add hCard markup to your current contact page.
Une extension gratuite pour Firefox qui permet de gérer les microformats sur une page
hance your pages with microformats to hook them into this grand social net. You can use parsers in a variety of languages (see microformats.org/wiki/parsers) to start consuming hCards in your registration processes. You can discover relationships from single sites with simple XFN parsing, and point at other sites as you grow. You can use Google’s Social Graph API to quickly query an index of XFN relationship data from acro
I completely missed this, but it looks like Google is parsing hProduct now when crawling he web. As one of he first people actively working on he spec, I'm thrilled to see this happen.
if the Government filter out MA15+ games, and ban any games not classified, what happens to World of Warcraft? What about social spaces like Second Life? How about iPhone games and Facebook apps? MySpace? a Job for Government 2.0 Taskforce methinks.
While being interviewed by Tim O'Reilly at Mix '06, Bill Gates famously acknowledged that what the world needs now is not love love love, but instead, microformats.
Don't miss James Turner's Interview with Google Engineering's Othar Hansson and RV Guha On Tuesday, Google introduced a feature called Rich Snippets which provides users with a convenient summary of a search result at a glance. They have been experimenting with microformats and RDFa, and are officially introducing the feature and allowing more sites to participate. While the Google announcement...
quelques attributs reconnus par rich snippets... * The writer of the review * The date the review was written * The rating (for example, 4/5) exemples : http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=146645 * For items with multiple user reviews, the number of reviews and average rating.
A part based explanation of good semantic implementation of microformats ( One mans journey )
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Microformat validator and transformation service