Last night I gave a presentation at the Portland Semantic Web Meetup (“Goodbye, Semantic HTML!“. I touched on a lot of different aspects of embedding semantic references into HTML – past, present, and future. Below is a list of references to articles or tools that came up during the talk and discussion.
Microformats
http://microformats.org
Microformats I’ve used:
- hcard (people, organizations)
- hcalendar (events)
- hlisting (something you offer for sale)
- hproduct (something you make/produce)
RDFa
Dublin Core Metadata (creators, copyright)
GoodRelations E-Commerce vocabulary (ontology)
GoodRelations Snippet Generator
GoodRelations Templates
How Best Buy Is Using The Semantic Web – an implementation of Good Relations in RDFa
HTML5 Microdata
Dive Into HTML5 on Microdata
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer: RDFa and HTML5′s Microdata
Microformats vs. RDFa vs. Microdata
Firefox Toolbars:
Operator (detects Microformats)
RDFa Developer (detects RDFa)
Jeffrey Zeldman’s Designing With Web Standards - a fantastic book for retraining you to think in terms of clean HTML and use CSS well.
Great XKCD cartoon on the current state of Higher Ed Web sites