I would advocate using RDFa (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/) over microformats.
Benefits of RDFa include (taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDFa#Benefits_of_RDFa): (1) Publisher Independence - each site can use its own standards (2) Data Reuse - data is not duplicated. Separate XML and HTML sections are not required for the same content. (3) Self Containment - The HTML and the RDF are separated (4) Schema Modularity - The attributes are reusable (5) Evolvability - additional fields can be added and XML transforms can extract the semantics of the data from an XHTML file I think (1) could be important for mysociety as it could develop it's own vocabulary to describe things not covered by exisiting microformats. Using RDFa would also allow mysocity to become part of the linked open data initative (http://linkeddata.org/). Paul On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:34 PM, 'Dragon' Dave McKee <[email protected]> wrote: > Andy, could you perhaps make a list of places where you think we > should be implementing microformats? That would actually be a useful > step forwards. > > Likewise, the order in which they should be prioritised. > > No promises I'll get anything done (without a computer for a while) > but will see. > > Dave. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
