2:00pm - The Growth and Evolution of Microformats Panel Notes (SXSWi 2007)
2:00 pm - The Growth and Evolution of Microformats
Moderator: Tantek Çelik Chief Technologist, Technorati
Frances Berriman Volume
Michael Kaply IBM
Glenn Jones Creative Dir, Madgex
Tantek Çelik Chief Technologist, Technorati
Rough Panel Notes:
History of microformats through tshirts - 2003 sxsw
XFN - semantics to blogrolls to mark up
supported immediately by:
blo.gs
wordpress
2005 microformats for people, events:
eventful
done on a wiki on technorati. So made made microformats.org in 2005
microformats.org/wiki/
flickr - added microformats to profiles, and geotags
added to technorati
ode began to support for songs, playlists, etc.
2006 - event sites marked up in them
Stanford univesity - base of all their pages for contact information.
Mike - extention for firefox - operator. lets you work with microformats information.
danda.videntity.org
backnetwork - formats work for relationships, reviews, rss feeds.
glennjones.net - tear apart his site to code mine with microformats
hcard, xfn, other profiles on other sites. xfn - rel=me
creating new microformats - there's a process managed by the community environment on micrformats.org - and people are able to present their ideas. - based on the scientific method, doing research on the web into how people are out there marking things up with classes.
Questions
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does it use existing semantic web efforts and ontologies - yes, they make people look at and do research on what's existing.
Developing search engines on just formats -
kitchen.technorati.com - search for microformats, events, reviews, hcards
listings - edgeio will aggregate hcard listings - and you can ping them to get your information entered.
alexa crawls looking of hcards.
dogs that need to be adopted - dogster
Mobile - are mobile browsers finding microformatting.
jeremy keith - demo of microformats
Microformats & accessibility - a couple assesibility experts are pursuing how it can help and avoid becoming a challenge.
Restricted connet - not yet, but they asked her to get involved and develop these things.
Hcard and openID - openID 2.0 are working on all converging this -
searh for hcard creator - dreamweaver has it, so does movable type.
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