I can’t help but like microformats, and part of that comes from the dogmatic principles that drive them. Among those is the notion that none of us should attempt to create a format out of whole cloth. Here’s how they explain it:
Under the title of “Propose a Microformat” they tell us: “Actually, DON’T!!!”
ask yourself: “are [...]

Posted February 17, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: dogma, interoperability, lessons, microformat, software development, standards. One Comment.

Oliver Brown introduced me to microformats a while ago, the Ryan Eby got excited about them, then COinS-PMH showed how useful they could be for libraries, but I still haven’t done anything with them myself (other than beg Peter Binkley to release his COinS-PMH WordPress Plugin).
What are microformats? Garrett Dimon explains the theory:
When writing markup [...]

Posted December 8, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: data standards, libraries, library, metadata, microformat, microformats, networked information, semantic web. 5 Comments.