Overview of content related to 'microformats'
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A microformat is a web-based approach to semantic markup which seeks to re-use existing HTML/XHTML tags to convey metadata and other attributes in web pages and other contexts that support (X)HTML, such as RSS. This approach allows software to process information intended for end-users (such as contact information, geographic coordinates, calendar events, and the like) automatically. Although the content of web pages is technically already capable of "automated processing", and has been since the inception of the web, such processing is difficult because the traditional markup tags used to display information on the web do not describe what the information means. Microformats can bridge this gap by attaching semantics, and thereby obviate other, more complicated, methods of automated processing, such as natural language processing or screen scraping. The use, adoption and processing of microformats enables data items to be indexed, searched for, saved or cross-referenced, so that information can be reused or combined. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Microformat)
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Get Tooled Up: SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol |
Jakob Voss combines OpenSearch and unAPI to enrich catalogues. |
October 2008, issue57, feature article |
Book Review: Website Optimization |
Pete Cliff used to think 'Website Optimisation' simply meant compressing images and avoiding nested tables, but in this he book finds out how much more there is to it, even in the Age of Broadband. |
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Book Review: Pro Web 2.0 Mashups |
Ralph LeVan looks at a comprehensive work on how to consume and repurpose Web services. |
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Institutional Web Management Workshop 2008: The Great Debate |
Adrian Tribe reports on a three-day conference designed for professionals involved in the provision of institutional Web services, organised by UKOLN and held at King's College, University of Aberdeen in July 2008. |
July 2008, issue56, event report |
Newsline |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2007, issue53, news and events |
IWMW 2007: Next Steps for the Web Management Community |
Shirley Keane reports on the wide range of presentations given at this year's Institutional Web Management Workshop. |
July 2007, issue52, event report |
OpenID: Decentralised Single Sign-on for the Web |
Andy Powell and David Recordon take a brief look at OpenID and ask what relevance it has to e-learning. |
April 2007, issue51, feature article |
News and Events |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
April 2007, issue51, news and events |
Introducing UnAPI |
Dan Chudnov and a team of colleagues describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation Web applications. |
July 2006, issue48, feature article |
IWMW 2006: Quality Matters |
Adrian Stevenson reports on the 10th Institutional Web Management Workshop held at the University of Bath over 14-16 June 2006. |
July 2006, issue48, event report |
Folksonomies: The Fall and Rise of Plain-text Tagging |
Emma Tonkin suggests that rising new ideas are often on their second circuit - and none the worse for that. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Serving Services in Web 2.0 |
Theo van Veen shows with the help of an example, how standardised descriptions of services can help users control the integration of services from different providers. |
April 2006, issue47, feature article |
Web Focus: The WWW 2005 Conference |
Brian Kelly provides his impressions including reports of areas of doubt and uncertainty - but also of an exciting new development. |
