Hi all,
Google recently introduced "rich snippets", which are basically
microformats and RDFa:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/05/introducing-rich-snippets.html
The idea is that if your web page is marked up with certain attributes
then search results from your web page will look better on Google.
So far exhibits' contents are not crawl-able at all by search engines,
because they are contained inside JSON files rather than in HTML, and
they are then rendered dynamically in the browser.
Since Google is starting to pay attention to structured data within web
pages, I think it might be a really good time to start thinking about
how to make exhibits crawl-able *and* compatible with Google's support
for microformats and RDFa at the same time. Two birds with one stone.
One possible solution is that if you use Exhibit within a php file, then
you could make the php file get some service like Babel to take your
JSON file and generate HTML with microformats or RDFa, and inject that
into a <noscript> block.
Please let me know if you have any thought on that!
Thanks,
David
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