ETech Microformats March 7, 2006 Contributors ============ * Leon Chism - leon@chism.org * Simon Willison - http://simonwillison.net/ Microformats ============ http://tantek.com/presentations/2006/03/microformats-etech/ Tantek Celik, Chief Technologist, Technorati Added hcard microformat to etech spearker's page. have a link to copy them to vcards. vCard is supported by many applications. Tantek is bad at names - but now he can import people from the ETech site straight in to Apple address book along with their bio information. code samples follow. hcard bit is class= in span tags. given-name. family-name. title. org. makes it easy to parse.
... Microformats is more than just "good class names". Challenge from the XML days - if you encourage everyone to make up their own formats, everyone does! You don't get interoperability. So Microformats has principles to help guide their creation. * principles keep things micro * process emphasizes getting real * community minimizes duplicates the Tantek hCard URI for hCards was http://tantek.com/microformats/2006/etech/speakers.html Scientific method approach: 1. pick a specific problem and define it 2. research and document current web publishing behavior (ie get in front of the parade) 3. document existing formats in the problem area 4. brainstorm with implied schema 5. arg - missed it Homecoming for Tantek and Kevin - they presented "real world semantics" at ETech 2 years ago when they coined the term microformats. Since then, many microformats have been developed. XOXO VoteLinks rel-license adr and geo hAtom hListing hResume hReview rel-directory rel-payment xFolk == The community == Inspired by how Wikipedia shows that working in the open Just Works. * IRC * Email * Blog * Wiki wiki changes tickle to the irc channel. irc logs go to web page. Tags ==== â ¢ Tags: keywords set free € â € ¢ Moved from company towns to your house â € ¢ reused the link spec is called rel="tag" http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag 3 components: â € ¢ tagspace: http://technorati.com/tag/ â € ¢ tag: etech €â ¢ label: eTech conf Technorati, icerocket indexes them. lots are picking it up. Tool support: LiveJournal, Wordpress, Ecto, plug-ins and bookmarklets rel="directory" http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-directory Swiss bloga rel="directory" for linking to a directory technorati blog finder is build around this. it says "the blog is about this" not "the post is about this" Demo: CommerceNet ================= Rohit Khare mircosearch miffy: bookmarklet MF finder puts green boxes in front of angstro: pub/sub. commerce.net/wiki/tpd? integrating hcards with google maps. Mark Pilgrim - Magic Line ========================= greasemonkey script that follows your browsing and remembers structured data from the pages that you have visited. command line for the web. search box for the microformats in pages you visited. Parses out rel-tag links, autodiscovered RSS and Atom feeds, referers, titles, link text, a number of other microformats (in the unfinished latest version). google coming out with a tool ("places") that does better search on browsing history. tantek.com/presentations/2006/03/??? Yoz - Ning =========== instant social software platform. hacked in an "export to vcard" widget. Sean - AOL ========== iamalpha.com making moduels out of microformats. changes the dom on the fly. allows saving the page. secure syndication ================== class = "encrypted blowfish" and class = "enc data" decrypted via blowfish in javascript. yikes.