This year the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2008 Web site is building on previous experiences and is continuing to make use of microformats.
Microformats, as defined on the Microformats Web site, are:
... designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Instead of throwing away what works today, microformats intend to solve simpler problems first by adapting to current behaviors and usage patterns (e.g. XHTML, blogging).
Throughout the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2008 Web site there is contact information for people involved with the workshop (speakers, committee members, session chairs, etc.) Some of this information has been marked up using hCard tags.
hCards, as defined on the Microformats Web site, are:
... a simple, open, distributed contact information format for people, companies and organizations, which is suitable for embedding in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML.
When viewing marked up hcards on the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2008
Web site you will definitely notice one icon and may in fact notice two. The green and
brown logo (
) links to this page while
the blue and black logo (
)
transforms the hCard into a vCard.
e.g.
Marieke Guy
Web site: Marieke Guy
Email: m.guy@ukoln.ac.uk
Phone: 01225 703928.
At the moment you will only be able to see the blue and black logo under the contact information if you use a Firefox browser and have a script (such as Convert hCard) installed on your machine.
You can also use a hCard transformation service to change the hCard into a vcard. If you go to Suda and enter this page's URL in the second box labelled hCard-2-vCard and click generate Vcard you will create a Vcard for Marieke Guy.
Technorati also have a beta hCard transformer service.
Last modified: 11th June 2008
