1. Nishikant P Taksande
School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton

2. Evolution
Conclusions
Microformats-aware
Implementation
Types
Why Microformats? applications
Introduction
Background

4. “Designed for human first and machine
second, microformats are a set of simple, open
data format build upon existing and widely adopted
standards.” -Microformats.org

5. Microformats adds semantics to web pages
Smart content
Meaningful markup
http://www.flickr.com/photos/veerles-blog/172851392/

6. Separate file format for machine-readable information, however
powerful, may not succeed simply because it uses another file [3]
Utilizing established standards to add semantics is the preferred
way
Writers with some knowledge of HTML can add semantic
information to web page like calendar events (hCalendar) and
contact information (hCard).

7. <rdf:RDF
xmlns:rdf='http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#'
BEGIN: VCALENDER
xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/ical#'>
<div class=”vcalendar vevent”>
<Vcalendar>
<prodid>-//kanzaki.com//RDFCal 1.0//EN</prodid>
vCalendar BEGIN: VEVENT vCalendar
<version>2.0</version>
<span class=”summary”> Jeopardy! The IBM
<method>PUBLISH</method>
SUMMARY: Jeopardy! The IBM Challenge: Inside the
<component>
<Vevent>
<a Challenge: Inside the Mind of Watson
href=”/egFile.vcs”>
<dtstart rdf:parseType='Resource'>
Mind of Watson
<dateTime>2011-12-01T17:00:00</dateTime>
</span>
<tzid>Asia/Tokyo</tzid>
<b>Jeopardy! The IBM Challenge: Inside
</dtstart>
DTSTART: 20111201T170000Z
<dtend rdf:parseType='Resource'>
<p class=”decription”> How Watson works at
<dateTime>2011-12-01T19:00:00</dateTime>
RDF
LOCATION: Turner sims
the Mind of Watson</b> from the show.
<tzid>Asia/Tokyo</tzid>
</dtend>
RDF
a high level with examples
<summary>Jeopardy! The IBM Challenge: Inside the Mind of Watson</summary>
Calendar DTEND: 20111201T190000Z at a high level
<p> How Watson works
<description>How Watson works at a high level with examples from the show.</description>
Calendar
</p>
<dtstamp>20111130T104917Z</dtstamp>
<uid>1322650157245@kanzaki.com</uid>
DESCRIPTION: How Watson works at a high level
</Vevent>
with examples from the show</p>
<abbr class=”dtstart”
</component>
with examples from the st
<component>
<Vtimezone> show.
<small>December 1 , 2011,December 1st,
title=”20111201T170000Z”> 5-7PM in
<tzid>Asia/Tokyo</tzid>
END: st
VEVENT
<standard rdf:parseType='Resource'>
2011, 5-</abbr> <abbr class=”dtend”
1 , 2011, 5-</abbr> <abbr class=”dtend”
<dtstart rdf:parseType='Resource'>
the<i>Turner sims</i></small>
<dateTime>1970-01-01T00:00:00</dateTime>
END: VCALENDAR
</dtstart>
title=”20111201T190000Z”>7PM</abbr> in
<tzoffsetfrom>+0900</tzoffsetfrom>
hCalendar </a>
<tzoffsetto>+0900</tzoffsetto>
hCalendar
<tzname>JST</tzname>
the <span class=”location”>Turner
</standard>
</Vtimezone>
sims</span></div>
</component>
</Vcalendar>
</rdf:RDF>

8. Microformats
Compound Microformats
Elemental Microformats
rel-nofollow
rel-license
VoteLinks
XFN hCalendar
hReview
xFolk
hCard

9. <div class="hreview"><span
class="item"> <a class="url fn"
href="http://www.example.com><a>Titl
e</a></span> <div
class="description"><p> Some
description
</p></div> (<abbr class="rating"
title="5">*****</abbr>) <p
class="reviewer vcard">Review by <a
class="url fn"
href="http://website.com/blog/">Name
</a>, <abbr class="dtreviewed"
title="2012-02">February 2012</abbr>
</p> </div>
http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/6245/chicken-chicken-curry.aspx

12. Microformats are not new language
Microformats use HTML and XHTML power to create machine
readable information in simpler way
Clever use of css class which serves the purpose of styling and
providing semantic information at one place

13. [1] K. Stolley, "Using Microformats: Gateway to the Semantic Web," IEEE
Transactions on Professional Communication, vol.52, no.3, pp.291-302, Sept.
2009.
[2] R. Khare, "Microformats: The next (small) thing on the semantic
web?", IEEE Internet Comput., vol. 10, p.68 , 2006.
[3] R. Khare and T. Ç elik. Microformats: a pragmatic path to the semantic web
(Poster). Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web,
pages 865-866, 2006.