3. “Designed for human first and machine second, microformats are
a set of simple, open data format build upon existing and widely
adopted standards.” -Microformats.org
Microformats add semantics to web pages using existing
standards of HTML and XHTML
Microformats enable web application to extract, understand and
process information in web page
4. Separate file format for machine-readable information, however
powerful, may not succeed simply because it uses another file [3]
Utilizing established standards to add semantics is the preferred
way
Writers with some knowledge of HTML can add semantic
information to web page like calendar events (hCalendar) and
contact information (hCard).
5. HTML grew and become proper XML application, XHTML, including
all the modularisation that an information architect could ask for
[2]
XHTML class attribute add critical degree of freedom by
occupying multiple class names in space separated list
6. <rdf:RDF
xmlns:rdf='http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#'
BEGIN: VCALENDER vevent”>
<div class=”vcalendar
xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/ical#'>
<Vcalendar>
<prodid>-//kanzaki.com//RDFCal 1.0//EN</prodid>
vCalendar BEGIN: VEVENT vCalendar Jeopardy! The IBM
<span class=”summary”>
<version>2.0</version>
<method>PUBLISH</method>
SUMMARY: Inside the Mind of Watson
Challenge: Jeopardy! The IBM Challenge: Inside the
<component>
<Vevent>
<a href=”/egFile.vcs”>
<dtstart rdf:parseType='Resource'>
Mind of Watson
</span>
<dateTime>2011-12-01T17:00:00</dateTime>
<tzid>Asia/Tokyo</tzid>
<b>Jeopardy! The IBM Challenge: Inside
</dtstart>
DTSTART: 20111201T170000Z
<p class=”decription”> How Watson works at
<dtend rdf:parseType='Resource'>
<dateTime>2011-12-01T19:00:00</dateTime>
RDF
LOCATION: Turnerexamples from the show.
a high level of Watson</b>
the Mind with sims
<tzid>Asia/Tokyo</tzid>
</dtend>
RDF
<summary>Jeopardy! The IBM Challenge: Inside the Mind of Watson</summary>
Calendar DTEND: 20111201T190000Z at a high level
</p> How Watson works
<p>
<description>How Watson works at a high level with examples from the show.</description>
Calendar
<dtstamp>20111130T104917Z</dtstamp>
<uid>1322650157245@kanzaki.com</uid>
DESCRIPTION: How Watson works at a high level
<abbr class=”dtstart”
</Vevent>
with examples from the show</p> st
</component>
with examples from the st
title=”20111201T170000Z”> December 1 ,
<component>
<Vtimezone> show.
<small>December 1class=”dtend”
2011, 5-</abbr> <abbr , 2011, 5-7PM in
<tzid>Asia/Tokyo</tzid>
END: VEVENT
<standard rdf:parseType='Resource'>
<dtstart rdf:parseType='Resource'>
the<i>Turner sims</i></small>
<dateTime>1970-01-01T00:00:00</dateTime>
END: VCALENDAR
title=”20111201T190000Z”>7PM</abbr> in
</dtstart>
<tzoffsetfrom>+0900</tzoffsetfrom>
hCalendar </a>
the <span class=”location”>Turner
<tzoffsetto>+0900</tzoffsetto>
hCalendar
<tzname>JST</tzname>
</standard>
sims</span></div>
</Vtimezone>
</component>
</Vcalendar>
</rdf:RDF>
10. Microformats are not new language
Microformats use HTML and XHTML power to create machine
readable information in simpler way
Clever use of css class which serves the purpose of styling and
providing semantic information at one place
11. Concept of microfomats has been very firmly stated and explained
in the paper
Agenda of reduce, reuse and recycle is very well supported with
the working examples
Overall it is successful attempt to introduce semantics into web
pages with pre-existing standards which supports author’s view of
microformats as lowercase semantic web
12. [1] K. Stolley, "Using Microformats: Gateway to the Semantic Web," IEEE
Transactions on Professional Communication, vol.52, no.3, pp.291-302, Sept.
2009.
[2] R. Khare, "Microformats: The next (small) thing on the semantic
web?", IEEE Internet Comput., vol. 10, p.68 , 2006.
[3] R. Khare and T. Ç elik. Microformats: a pragmatic path to the semantic web
(Poster). Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web,
pages 865-866, 2006.
