Directory of Microformats Resources

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Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.

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• Alex Faaborg: Microformats

  https://blog.mozilla.org/faaborg/2006/12/11/microformats-part-0-introduction/
  A series of blog posts giving an introduction to microformats and how these are to be handled in Firefox 3.

• BBC Radio Labs: Removing Microformats from bbc.co.uk/programmes

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/06/removing_microformats_from_bbc.shtml
  Article explaining the decision to remove certain microformat markup from BBC pages on accessibility grounds.

• Getting Semantic With Microformats

  http://www.ablognotlimited.com/articles/tag/Getting+Semantic+series/
  A series of blog posts detailing the semantic benefits, structure, simplicity and overall potential of Microformats.

• hAccessibility

  http://www.webstandards.org/2007/04/27/haccessibility/
  Article by Bruce Lawson and James Craig, raising accessibility issues with the use of some microformats, and specifically the abbr design pattern.

• Microdata (Rich Snippets) Generators

  http://webcodetools.com/microdata-generators/
  Collection of microdata generators to add metadata inside web pages.

• Microformats Dublin Core in a few (and easy) steps

  http://webposible.com/microformatos-dublincore/microformats_dublin-core.html
  A brief tutorial for creating microformats following the Dublin Core meta-data standards.

• Microformats for Business Owners

  http://www.clagnut.com/blog/2244/
  An explanation of the practical benefits that microformats can bring to a business and its customers.

• Microformats.org

  http://microformats.org/
  The official microformats site. Contains the development wiki, mailing-list information and scripts to create the major microformats.

• Microformats: Web Semantics and More

  http://www.ablognotlimited.com/articles/for-your-microformats-pleasure/
  Presentation covering the basics of microformats, including syntax, benefits and publishing.

• Microformats: What, How, and Why

  http://www.vanseodesign.com/web-design/microformats-what-how-why/
  Overview of what Microformats are, how to use them, and why website owners should use them.

• Wikipedia: Microformat

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microformat
  Explanation of microformats with examples of its usage.

• XML.com: What Are Microformats

  http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/03/23/deviant.html
  Micah Dubinko asks what microformats are and whether they are here to stay.

 

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