Friday, June 15, 2007

Microformats: Everyperson's Semantic Web, 06/15/07

"Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Learn all about Microformats at .org HQ.Instead of throwing away what works today, microformats intend to solve simpler problems first by adapting to current behaviors and usage patterns (e.g. XHTML, blogging). . . . [microformats are] a set of simple open data format standards that many are actively developing and implementing for more/better structured blogging and web microcontent publishing in general."

Check out the microformats blog. This article published in Smashing Magazine is full of interesting resources regarding microformats.

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