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Microformats and Wikipedia

Microformats and Wikipedia. Microformats defined.

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Microformats and Wikipedia

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  1. Microformats and Wikipedia

  2. Microformats defined 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. http://microformats.org/wiki/introduction • Seen by some as a way of "plugging the gaps" in HTML

  3. Microformats in use on Wikipedia • Adr (address information ) • hAudio (information about audio recordings ) • hCalendars (calendaring and events format ) • hCards (people, companies, organizations, and places ) • Geo (geographic coordinates) • hMedia (publishing Images Video and Audio ) • hProduct (product data ) • hRecipe (self-explanatory) • Species ()

  4. Operator add-on • Operator (Mozilla) add-on looks for and provide functions for • hCard • hCalendar • Geo • Tag • xFolk • RDF

  5. Geo example • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barr contains • <span class="geo">52.548; -1.932</span>

  6. Tagspaces example • http://microformats.org/2010/04/28/google-adds-support-for-hcalendar-and-hrecipe-rich-snippets • <a href="http://microformats.org/tag/rich-snippets" rel="tag">rich snippets</a>

  7. Twitter example • http://twitter.com/ • <span class="thumb vcard author"><a href="http://twitter.com/Glenn_Emerson" class="tweet-url profile-pic url"><img alt="Glenn Emerson" class="photo fn" height="48" src="http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/702930262/pro_pic_normal.jpg" width="48" /></a></span>

  8. References and links • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Microformats • WikiProject Microformats page • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4106/ • Mozilla operator add-on page • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barr • Sample page with embedded Geo microformat • http://microformats.org/wiki/Main_Page • Microformats wiki

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