MICROFORMATS

ByVENKATESWARAN P

Introduction

Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Instead of throwing away what works today, microformats intend to solve simpler problems first by adapting to current behaviors and usage patterns

Microformats

Definition

• Microformats are small patterns of HTML to represent commonly published things like people, events, blog posts, reviews and tags in web pages.

• Microformats enable the publishing of higher fidelity information on the Web; the fastest and simplest way to provide feeds and APIs for the information in your website.

Micoformats Are Not

 A new language.

Infinitely extensible and open-ended

An attempt to get everyone to change their behavior and rewrite their tools.

A whole new approach that throws away what already works today.

A panacea for all taxonomies, ontologies, and other such abstractions. 

The Microformats Principles

 Solve a specific problem.

Start as simple as possible.

Design for humans first, machines secondReuse building blocks from widely adopted standards.

Modularity / embed ability.

Enable and encourage. decentralized 

Tag Attributes

Three important attributes:

class - Allows developers to identify similar elements across several Web documentsrel - Describes the relationship of a linked document to the current documentrev - Describes the reverse of rel: The relationship of the current document to a linked document

Application

hCard ,XFN

hCalendar

rel-license

rel-tag

Xoxo

hCard

<address>      <p>Sir Pochkhanwala Road,</p>      <p>Mumbai,</p>     <p>Maharashtra </p>     <p>107</p></address>

hCard Microformats

<address class="adr">    <p class ="street - address">Sir Pochkhanwala Road</p>    <p class ="locality" > Mumbai </p>    <p class ="region"> Maharashtra  </p>    <p class="postal-code"> 107 </p></address>

 

 Sir Pochkhanwala Road, WorliMumbai, Maharashtra 107

Map the Location

 

Orc Site

Operator Toolbar

 Mapping

hCalendar

Drafts

• Adr 

• geo

• hAtom 

• hAudio

• hMedia 

• hProduct

• hRecipe 

• hResume 

• hReview • creator• rel-directory • rel-enclosure • rel-home • rel-payment• robots exclusion• xFolk

Conclusion

The microformats are going to change the working of web search engines and make the user to find the data what they are looking for much faster then before.

Thank You!