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Title:

Metadata Wars: Untangling Microformats, RDFa and Microdata

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Organizer:
John De Oliveira, Semantic Web Austin
Description:
Microformats, RDFa and microdata are different ways of annotating HTML documents with metadata. What is the difference and why do we need them all? Organizations such as Google, The Associated Press and Yahoo all have their opinions about metadata. Where is this all going?
Questions
Answered:
  1. What are microformats, RDFa, and microdata?
  2. What are their unique advantages?
  3. How much are they used?
  4. To what extent are they compatible?
  5. How is a poor website owner to choose?
  6. I've marked up my site with one or the other... what happens then?
  7. Are these formats all needed? Can't you guys just get along?
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
Content, Information Architecture, New Technology / Next Generation
Type:
Panel
Event:
Interactive 2010
Dan Brickley
on 18/8/09
Good topic, but "largely incompatible" is probably not the most helpful way to frame the question. Both Google and Yahoo happily consume both RDFa and Microformats, and each have their strengths and weaknesses. Panel's often make the mistake of framing situations as conflict, through fear they'll be boring otherwise. I'd like to see this panel avoid that.
Clay Benson
on 19/8/09
I too must respectfully disagree with the 'largely incompatible' comment - I've found that eRDF or RDFa can play very nicely with Microformats and/or Microdata (at least, in the idea that you focus on one and let the others come in on the assist). So, you could say I'm an RDFa guy with a hint of microformatting.
Games Online
on 3/11/09
Good topic mate
blu ray ripper
on 13/11/09
So looking forward to this..
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