I began a separate wiki not too long ago for "practical" information about using and deploying microformats (http://microformats.pbwiki.com). It'd be great to see this wiki get some use -- and starting it off with a section on "Microformats in Education" might be just the thing to kickstart it.
Note that while I don't want to take away from the mf dot org wiki, I do see a need for a looser place to experiment with recording 'hacks and hints' that are as necessarily authoritative as the main wiki. Tantek and I have discussed this and the hope is that we can develop this kind of practical/pragmatic information separately and then migrate back (or crosslink) the relevant bits. Chris On 7/3/06, Jesse Rodgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Brian Kelly wrote: > I'd like to tap into the enthusiasm which the event generated by developing > a strategy for deployment of microformats within the sector. My plans are > three-fold: > > 1 Education: what are microformats; what are their limitations; etc. > 2 Demonstrators: provide examples of uses of microformats; encourage > others to engage in similar examples for themselves; look at ways in which > third parties can exploit our microformats in ways which benefit the > community. 3 Work with the wider micoformat community Hi Brian, As part of a slow to start effort I have been trying to get a conversation going with the University Web Developers list (http://www.usask.ca/web_project/uwebd/index.html), which has a large amount of representation across North America, looking at particular formats for education. What I would also like to explore is if there are any changes might be needed to current formats to meet higher educations needs. I have been doing this as part of the WaSP Education task force: http://webstandards.org/action/edutf But I have not had the time to put into it until recently. A couple days ago I started collecting my own thoughts and invited others on the WaSP and uwebd list to contribute on a wiki here: http://web.uwaterloo.ca/wiki/index.php/Main_Page I am interested in achieving the same goals as yourself and perhaps there is a better way to achieve them than what I have started to do. Ideally a space in the MF wiki for higher education would be a great start. It wouldn't be something for a specific MF but instead a place to explore the application of MF in higher education and hopefully identify the key areas MF fall short which we would then end up with some suggested changes... maybe even a new MF or two. Any ideas from the community would be welcome... Jesse -- Jesse Rodgers Manager, Web Communications University of Waterloo http://www.uwaterloo.ca _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
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