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Tag archive for 'microformats'

Geotagging on WordPress.com

Published by Bruce on November 29, 2009 in Quicklinks. 1 response

WordPress.com has introduced geotagging of user profiles and posts. Location is input manually via an integrated Google map or automatically via GPS, the W3C Geolocation API, the Google Gears Geolocation API, or guesstimated from your IP address. The geodata are recorded in posts via the geo microformat plus geo.position and ICBM meta tags, and in feeds via GeoRSS and W3C geodata standards. More here; where's the geotag icon?

Customizing WordPress feed content

Published by Bruce on April 13, 2008 in Internet. 11 responses

When I last looked at customizing feeds in WordPress, it was all to do with being able to offer a summary and full text feed simultaneously—making use of WordPress' flexible feed URL syntax and a .htaccess file. In this post I look at modifying the actual contents of the feed using a functions.php file (which may already exist as part of your current theme).
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RDF v microformats v meta headers

Published by Bruce on April 5, 2008 in Quicklinks. 3 responses

I've had a hard time "getting" RDF (e.g. how it differs from XML), but this article helps give it context. The semantic web is being built simultaneously from the bottom up and top down. Typifying the bottom-up approach, RDF content is machine-readable at the outset; powerful but complex (with several advantages over microformats), RDF is all about inter-operability. Top-down approaches introduce "metadata sprinkling" to existing content, simple but limiting by comparison e.g. microformats (using CSS class attributes as in hCard), or meta elements (meta tags such as those for geo-discovery). Both approaches are valid, but RDF is hard whereas microformats help "the rest of us" contribute to the semantic web. There may be a collision ahead, however, between microformats and RDFa (sprinklings of RDF embedded in existing XHTML).

A web standard icon for geotagging

Published by Bruce on February 21, 2008 in Internet. 32 responses

Geotagging (or geocoding if you prefer) is the act of associating your content (blog posts, photos, feeds, etc.) with a geographic location (e.g. via latitude and longitude co-ordinates). Thus tagged authors can "mash" their content together with the likes of Google Maps, or the Flickr Map if photography is your thing. However, co-ordinates are typically encoded within metadata (or microformat) tags making them visible to machines but hidden from people. We have de facto web standard icons to help identify feeds, OPML, and sharing—so why not for geotagged content?
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Implementing the hCard microformat

Published by Bruce on August 17, 2007 in Internet. 8 responses

hCard is a semantic web-friendly derivative of vCard (as used to import/ export from the Mac OS X Address Book). This post is a short "how to" describing a method for adding contact information to your blog posts in a cross-platform format that your readers can store without effort.
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Introduction to microformats

Published by Bruce on July 18, 2006 in Quicklinks. 0 responses

Nick Nettleton summarizes: "Microformats build on the semantic capabilities of the web, using existing standards". Many bloggers use rel-tag already; read Nick's helpful intro then head to microformats.org to learn more about this "next big thing".