Microformats: The Semantic Web for the Rest of Us
Presenter: Tim Beadle

When and where?

13 February, 18:00 – 21:00
Waterside 1
Watershed
Bristol

Event outline:

1. What are Microformats (µFs)?

Microformats are a set of agreed vocabularies for presenting structured, semantic data in existing (X)HTML markup. They take the promise of the far-off “Semantic Web” and apply it in the here and now. http://microformats.org/about/

2. What Tim will talk about:

a) Background: what are they, what kinds of data they can be applied to
b) What’s the point of them?
c) How to consume them
d) How to start using them in your own projects: a simple example with a ‘contact us’ page to get you inspired
e) Who is using them and how

3. What you will learn

a) What Microformats are and why they exist
b) How to use them
c) How to make them, with an easy example
d) Where to go for more information

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Sponsors:

Venue and food kindly provided by Knowledge West
Beer keenly provided by Chinwag