16/07/2008: Extending hCard with RDFa (TobyInkster.co.uk)
"hCard":http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard is an HTML-based format for describing contacts (people, organisations, etc) on web pages. It allows you to mark up which elements represent their name, their address, their birthday and so forth.
While hCard offers many useful properties that can be used to describe contacts, some are considered beyond the scope of the hCard specification. This is where RDFa comes in...
microformatique - a blog about microformats and “data at the edges” : from little things, big things grow
from little things, big things grow
XFN Activity - David Singleton
This is seriously brilliant. Starting from a single URL (adactio.com), a lifestream is creating based on XFN rel="me" links. David Singleton wins the internet.
Digital Web Magazine - Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web
Ben has written a superb article outlining the hows and whys of distributed social networks with hCard and XFN, finishing with an inspiring call to arms.
Microformats Cheat Sheet
The Microformats cheat sheet is designed to be printed on an A4 sheet of paper and live by a designer or developer's desk, to make life a bit easier. A description of what is on the cheat sheet follows, or if you are impatient, you can go straight to the full size Microformats cheat sheet.
Cheat Sheets - Added Bytes
A tremendously useful collection of cheat sheets.
BBC, Microformats and RDFa - O'Reilly XML Blog
I’m not sure I have enough faith in the Microformats community to come to an agreement on this topic. In my short time following the various Microformats mailing lists, I quickly became disillusioned with the community and administrators. I witnessed several instances of heavy handed administration, including the banning of users. Frequently, no real reason was given and I was left w/ the impression that it wasn’t much of a community after all.
BBC - Radio Labs - Microformats and RDFa and RDF
My original post on removing microformats from /programmes seems to have kicked off quite a debate. Unfortunately some of this seems to have resulted in RDFa people criticising microformats and vice versa. Which wasn't really the intention.
hAccessibility redux? - The Web Standards Project
As with the debate over a year ago, the concerns raised are not about microformats as a whole being inaccessible. They’re not even strictly about the hCalendar microformat itself. The concerns are purely centred around the (mis)use of the ABBR design pattern.
Brian Suda - Reboot 10 interview
Nicole Simon interviews Brian Suda, pre-reboot10. He talks about his proposal on freeloaders and how they help your service. Also speaks of microformats and how they can work on the mobile web.
Share your favourite events with MarkThisDate.com
Download, add and share your favourite events at MarkThisDate.com
BBC - Radio Labs - Removing Microformats from bbc.co.uk/programmes
There have been a number of concerns over hCalendar's use of the abbreviation design pattern. Until these issues are resolved the BBC semantic markup standards have been updated to prevent the use of non-human-readable text in abbreviations.
Immediate uses for Microformats | Broken Links
One of the hardest things about Microformats is explaining their benefits to people. You can say It's a standardised format of marking-up content, which is
Optimus · microformats transformer (version 0.5.3)
Introducing Optimus, the microformats transformer. Easily transform your microformatted content to nice, clean, easily digestible, XML, JSON or JSON-P. You can also easily set filters to only receive particular formats.
Microformats
Microformats are small bits of HTML that represent things like people, events, tags, etc. in web pages. Microformats enable the publishing of higher fidelity information on the Web, providing the fastest and simplest way to support feeds and APIs for your website.
Scott Kveton: I’m for the Open Web
Scott Kveton writes "Instead of just complaining, I’m going to continue focusing my efforts where I think I can make the most impact. I’m going to continue working hard to promote and enable the OpenID community, I’m going to continue to encourage and engage in discussions with projects like OAuth, microformats, DiSo and others and I encourage everyone to join me in doing the same."
XEN 1.0 profile
XEN is an extension of XFN. Negative relationship terms have been omitted from XFN by design. The authors of XFN think that such values would not serve a positive ends and thus made the deliberate decision to leave them out. Please see the XFN home page for more information about XFN.
Practical-web-semantics - DBWiki
Four screencasts introducing the world of microformats.
Microformats overview for nytimes.com developers
Presentation on microformats delivered by Andrei Scheinkman to developers at The New York Times.
Microformats Extensions - The Web Standards Project
The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards which ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.
Digital Web Magazine - Free Your Embedded Data With SearchMonkey
SEO sells to a certain degree, and people love to see their site stand out in search result pages. What if there were a system that would allow you to do that, based on information that is already in your documents? Well, now there is, and it is called SearchMonkey.
reboot10 - Jeremy Keith talks about Hypertext (Micropresentation)
Ooh, look what else I've found on the Reboot site.: this is my pecha kucha... I mean, this is my "micropresentation" about increasing the power of your hyperlinks (with microformats ...of course).
reboot10 - Jeremy Keith talks about Soul
Wandering around the site for the Reboot conference in Copenhagen, I came across this video of my talk from last year. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed this talk.
Tip: Use the new microformats API in your Firefox 3.0 Extensions
The upcoming Firefox 3.0 release has built-in support for microformats in the form of an API that you can access from a Firefox extension. In this tip, you follow a simple example of how to use this API from within your extension code. You take a skeleton Hello World extension and give it the ability to store an hCard from any Web page and then use that stored hCard to populate a Web form.
Using microformats - MDC
Firefox 3 implements a global Microformats object that provides access to microformats.
Webmonkey | Get_Acquainted_with_Microformats
The Web Developer's Resource
Semantic Web Patterns: A guide to Semantic Technology « Alex Iskold Technology Blog
"In this article, we’ll analyze the trends and technologies that power the Semantic Web. We’ll identify patterns that are beginning to emerge, classify the different trends, and peak into what the future holds."
BBC - Radio Labs - Microformats and accessibility - a request for help
This is our new blog for BBC Radio Labs - a place where we show some of our prototypes for new sites and services. They are all at an early stage of development and some of them might not work quite right, some might look a bit sketchy and they may never be taken any further. They're what we call
hcard-example1-steps - Microformats
After looking at the spec for hcard, I'm impressed at how consise and DRY it is. Very nice work.
A List Apart: Articles: The Accessibility Hat Trick: Getting Abbreviations Right
"The acronym element is missing in XHTML 2.0. Internet Explorer 6 ignores the abbr element. JAWS doesn’t like dfn. AAA-level compliance requires you to find a solution. Make it work."
The solution to making the abbr design pattern accessible might be in there.
(via uf-discuss)
Microformats Icons
Microformat Icons by Wolfgang Bartelme.
Microformats: The Fine Art of Markup: hCard
Peachpit: Web Design Reference Guide > Microformats: The Fine Art of Markup: hCard
by Andy Clarke
I’m joining Vidoop to work on DiSo full time | FactoryCity
"Well, Twitter, along with Marshall and his post on ReadWriteWeb, beat me to it, but I’m pretty excited to announce that, yes, I am joining Vidoop, along with Will Norris, to work full time on the DiSo (distributed social) Project."
Vidoop Hires Dream Team Open Source Veterans
Vidoop team set to build open distributed social networking infrastructure. Chris Messina and Will Norris to join Vidoop to deliver and promote the next generation of social networking tools.
Announcing pydataportability 0.1 (technical) — mrtopf.de
"Right now the library is very barebone, supporting basic parsing of the hCard microformat, the XFN microformat and XRDS Simple. What comes out of the parser are then VCard, XFNRelationships or Service objects, depending on which parser you use."
Guide to the semantic web
A primer to microformats and other semantic technologies.
Wake up ASP.NET developers!
A rant about the ASP.NET developers attitude towards the semantic web
For Individuals - The DataPortability Project - The DataPortability wiki
Great guide to Data Portability from an individual perspective, listing all you can do - pretty geeky / tech heavy, but if you wanna be a pioneer . . .
Microformats testsuites
Glenn has released his test suite for hCard. Just today somebody was asking me about stuff like this; I wish I had spotted this earlier. Nice work, Glenn.
Use Cases - DataPortability
A page to keep under the radar. A list of Use Cases relating to DP. They are mere examples, but good starting points for discussion.
hAccessibility, one year on
‘The burden of proof was so great that we decided to have a life instead’
DataPortability.org - Share and remix data using open standards
The open standards stack for the ubiquitous sharing and remixing of data
Highlight Microformats with CSS / journal / hicksdesign
Hicksdesign is a creative partnership based in Witney, Oxfordshire, UK. We create web sites and user interfaces built with web standards, as well as designing for print (we like branding in particular).
shawnshah.com » Portable Data: Everywhere and Nowhere
A good, plain-language introduction to Portable Data concepts.
Mike’s Musings » Operator
Operator is an extension for Firefox that adds the ability to interact with semantic data on web pages, including microformats, RDFa and eRDF. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kaply.com%2Fweblog%2Foperator
The MyBlogLog Blog: MyBlogLog hCard & vCard: More Microformats, More Portable Data
"But wait, their more... The MyBlogLog team has incorporated member's privacy settings directly into the hCards/vCards. If a member chooses to share their email address and phone number only with their contacts, the information will only be included on the hCard/vCard when clicked on by their contacts. Everyone else (and other services online) will only receive the public information the member has shared."
AdaptiveBlue - AB Meta
AB Meta - simple, open format for annotating pages that are about things
Mahalo Adds Microformats - Sean Percival's Blog
Just like it says: Mahalo has added hCards markup to its content.
The Semantic Web (Put Simply)
A simple introduction to the semantic web.
The Semantic Web In Breadth
An high-level introduction to the semantic web. Explains how the different parts of the semantic web are meant to fit together.
MicroRevie.ws
@hreview MicroRevie.ws; neat idea, similar to mine: http://tinyurl.com/34u6h7
What Are Microformats and What Do They Mean to Mobile? | funkfeuer.net
Microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.
Microformat Encoding and Visualization - Opera Developer Community
Opera Developer Community article: Microformat Encoding and Visualization
Location-based publishing and services - Opera Developer Community
Opera Developer Community article: Location-based publishing and services
Highly connected graphs: Opening BBC data « Derivadow.com
Looks like the BBC is going hardcore into open data! Sweet!
Calais - Overview
We want to make all the world's content more accessible, interoperable and valuable. Some call it Web 2.0, Web 3.0, the semantic web or the Giant Global Graph - we call our piece of it Calais.
aump - Google Code
probably the best Python microformat parser at the moment. Tasty.
Anti-patterns des Réseaux Sociaux - Microformats
Alors que la portabilit du rseau social documente ce qu'il y a produire pour mettre votre site sur le web social ouvert et soit un bon service orient-utilisateur, il a t constat que tout le monde ne suit pas de tels conseils et que certains optent la place pour un ensemble de tactiques alternatives moins conviviales pour l'utilisateur. Cette page documente de tels anti-modles d'implmentations de rseaux sociaux et fournit (malheureusement) de vritables exemples de tels sites si mal conus.
suda.co.uk/projects/microformats [Cheat Sheet]
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This microformats cheat sheet lists the properties by format and also lists each format and the hierarchy. This includes elemental microformats, compound microformats and some of the standard design patterns used.
Monkeyformats
Microformats + Greasemonkey = Monkeyformats. Is there a site that you wish used microformats? Write a userscript and share it here.
Microformats
Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Learn more about microformats
