transformr - Google Code
A Simple set of XSLT and PHP tools for Transforming Microformats
Social Network Portability
hCard, XFN, Google SG API
Getting Semantic With Microformats, Introduction ~ A Blog Not Limited
Introductory article to a series focusing on specific microformat implementations on a personal blog. Includes some background on microformats, as well as links to resources for hCard, hAtom, rel-home, rel-tag, rel-license, rel-me, hCalendar and XFN.
hCard Wizard [Matthew Levine]
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The hCard Wizard bookmarklet helps you quickly create basic hCards.
For A Beautiful Web | Creative web site design and development training and workshops
Malarkey has launched his latest project: For A Beautiful Web is a series of web design master class training workshops covering topics including visual design for the web, best-practice XHTML mark-up and CSS, Microformats and practical web accessibility design and techniques.
DataPortability.org - Share and remix data using open standards
The open standards stack for the ubiquitous sharing and remixing of data
Mozilla Ubiquity
An experiment into connecting the Web with language.
TransFormr - Microformats Transformer Toolkit
Microformats Transformer Toolkit
Optimus · microformats transformer (version 0.5.3)
Introducing Optimus, themicroformats 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 University: 100 Articles and Resources | Virtual Hosting Blog
Microformats are small formatting pieces designed to make your data easier to read by both users and software. Although their use is not widespread, it’s important that every web developer becomes familiar with them, as they’re sure to be an integral part of the web’s future. Because of this, there are a number of articles and resources out there devoted to microformats. We’ve compiled more than 100 of the best here.
Integrating Microformats into Higher Ed - PDF
Research paper exploring microformats in higher ed
How can Microformats help Higher Education
Integrating microformats into higher education websites.
Operator :: Firefox Add-ons
Firefox Add-On for Microformats on the Web! Can be used to debug your own microformats, or do useful things with others'
Recommended by Tantek
semantic-xhtml - Microformats
Semantic (X)HTML refers to:
1. The semantic elements and attributes of (X)HTML (as opposed to the presentational HTML elements and attributes)
2. (X)HTML documents that are written using semantic (X)HTML.
3. The practice of writing semantic (X)HTML
4. plain old semantic HTML (POSH)
timeago: a jQuery plugin
Timeago is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to support automatically updating fuzzy timestamps (e.g. "4 minutes ago" or "about 1 day ago").
Microblogging syndication formats » DeWitt Clinton
great piece for the geeks
What Brian Cant Never Taught You About Metadata
"A presentation from Geek in The Park 2008 on the subject of metadata and microformats"
Hueniverse: Beginner’s Guide to Discovery – Part II: People vs. Machines
A great explanation of how open technologies like microformats and OpenID enable greater discovery of data.
Tutorials on Microformats
Tutorials on Microformats
Ash Searle’s Blog » Blog Archive » Microformats, dark data and CSS - part 1
There’s was a bit of kerfuffle when the BBC dropped support for microformats in their program listings. Here are some proposed solutions and a bit of vitriol on the subject.
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
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
