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Everything about Microformat
Metadata standard for webpages
Microformats (μF) are predefined HTML markup created to serve as descriptive and consistent metadata about elements, designating them as representing a certain type of data. They allow software to process the information reliably by having set classes refer to a specific type of data rather than being arbitrary. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: MicroformatA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: MicroformatsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Microformat Imaging ELISA for Pesticide DeterminationCited 41 times
- Go sideways: HCardA closely related topic
- Go sideways: HCalendarA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A simple data format that can be embedded in a webpage.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Microformat Imaging ELISA for Pesticide Determination
More Thoughts on Bibliographic Access and Microformat Records
Reference Material in Microformat: A Government Documents Librarian’s View
Social Reform and Microformat: The Pole of U.S. Government Publications
Development of microformat imaging microplate and membrane immunoenzyme assays of the herbicide atrazine
One Alternative to Cataloging Microformat Collections
Religion Converted to Microformat
One alternative to cataloging microformat collections
📚 Books worth reading
MicroformatsJohn Allsopp · 2007
Adaptive Web DesignAaron Gustafson · 2011
Kulturen des KleinenLeonie Süwolto, Claudia Öhlschläger · 2014
Microformats Made SimpleEmily P. Lewis · 2009
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
- HCard hCard is a microformat for publishing the contact details (which might be no more than the name) of people, companies, organizations, and places, in HTML…
- HCalendar hCalendar (short for HTML iCalendar) is a microformat standard for displaying a semantic (X)HTML representation of iCalendar-format calendar information…
- Microdata (HTML) Microdata is a part of the WHATWG HTML specification that defines how to include metadata within existing web page content. Search engines, web crawlers…
- Semantic HTML Semantic HTML is the use of HTML markup to reinforce the semantics, or meaning, of the information in web pages and web applications rather than merely…
- Geo (microformat) Geo is a microformat used for marking up geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) in HTML (or XHTML). Coordinates are expected in angular units…
- RDFa RDFa or Resource Description Framework in Attributes is a W3C Recommendation that adds a set of attribute-level extensions to HTML, XHTML and various XML-based…
- XHTML+RDFa XHTML+RDFa (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language + Resource Description Framework in attributes) is an extended version of the XHTML markup language for…
- Schema.org Schema.org is a reference website that publishes documentation and guidelines for using structured data mark-up on web-pages (in the form of microdata…