Library Cataloging
The use of microdata (i.e. microformats) is being considered by the HTML community. A Draft Recommendation has just been released. That would mean it is not yet a standard, still open to comments. "Sometimes, it is desirable to annotate content with specific machine-readable labels, e.g. to allow generic scripts to provide services that are customised to the page, or to enable content from a variety of cooperating authors to be processed by a single script in a consistent manner."
- Dublin Core News
A couple of news items from DCMI. DCMI Metadata Terms published with RDFa markup A maintenance release of DCMI Metadata Terms, published today, now includes HTML markup describing all of its properties, classes, datatypes, and vocabulary encoding schemes...
- Pics -> Icra
Somewhere along the way the Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) evolved into the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA).As a web author, we invite you to use our system to describe, that is, label, your online content in a way that can...
- Microformats Book
Now available from O'Reilly, Using Microformats by Brian Suda. Is a 56 page PDF file a Book?Microformats let you share structured information in HTML web pages. Although the information is visible to human readers--as it should be--software can also...
- Microformats
Some microformat cheat sheets (quick reference) are available. Dave Child has a very nice design on his. Brian Suda has a more compact version."Microformats are markup that allow expression of semantics in an HTML (or XHTML) web page. Programs can extract...
- Document Object Model
The W3C released the Document Object Model Level 2 HTML Specification as an official Recommendation. It is not compatable with Level 1.This specification defines the Document Object Model Level 2 HTML, a platform- and language-neutral interface that allows...
Library Cataloging
HTML5: Microdata
The use of microdata (i.e. microformats) is being considered by the HTML community. A Draft Recommendation has just been released. That would mean it is not yet a standard, still open to comments. "Sometimes, it is desirable to annotate content with specific machine-readable labels, e.g. to allow generic scripts to provide services that are customised to the page, or to enable content from a variety of cooperating authors to be processed by a single script in a consistent manner."
- Dublin Core News
A couple of news items from DCMI. DCMI Metadata Terms published with RDFa markup A maintenance release of DCMI Metadata Terms, published today, now includes HTML markup describing all of its properties, classes, datatypes, and vocabulary encoding schemes...
- Pics -> Icra
Somewhere along the way the Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) evolved into the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA).As a web author, we invite you to use our system to describe, that is, label, your online content in a way that can...
- Microformats Book
Now available from O'Reilly, Using Microformats by Brian Suda. Is a 56 page PDF file a Book?Microformats let you share structured information in HTML web pages. Although the information is visible to human readers--as it should be--software can also...
- Microformats
Some microformat cheat sheets (quick reference) are available. Dave Child has a very nice design on his. Brian Suda has a more compact version."Microformats are markup that allow expression of semantics in an HTML (or XHTML) web page. Programs can extract...
- Document Object Model
The W3C released the Document Object Model Level 2 HTML Specification as an official Recommendation. It is not compatable with Level 1.This specification defines the Document Object Model Level 2 HTML, a platform- and language-neutral interface that allows...