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microformats
are HTML for marking up
people, organizations
events
locations
blog posts
products
reviews
resumes
recipes
etc. Sites use microformats to publish a standard API that is consumed and used by
search engines
browsers
, and other web sites. See
what-are-microformats
for more.
See
microformats2
for a technical overview and summary of how to use microformats on public web pages and for APIs.
If you are looking for the
microformats.org blog
, see:
RSS feed
Contents
Introduction
Get Started
How to contribute
Specifications
4.1
Parsing
4.2
Vocabularies
4.3
rel microformats
4.4
Classic Microformats
4.4.1
Classic Drafts
Design Patterns
New microformats
Archived
Examples
Resources
10
User centric development
11
Shared work areas
12
Tools, test cases, additional research
13
Microformats wiki translations
14
community
Introduction
Main article:
introduction
This wiki is the central resource of the microformats community and provides microformats authoring guides, references, specifications, drafts, publishing patterns, research, brainstorming, and issue tracking.
Get Started
Main article:
get-started
Get started with microformats:
Make sure your pages and web apps use proper ‘
POSH
HTML
Mark-up your contact info with
h-card
, link to other profiles with
rel-me
Mark-up your blog with
h-entry
. See
for more
Questions? Read the
frequently asked questions
, ask on
IRC
Want to learn more in person? Check out microformats
events
How to contribute
Want to join in and contribute?
Get started
by adding microformats to your website, services, and products
Join the
IRC Channel
to learn and help answer questions.
Write a
testimonial
Do something on the
to do list
Translate this microformats wiki into other languages
to make microformats more accessible to readers of languages around the world.
Before proposing any new microformats, make sure your website is
POSH
uses existing microformats
, and then read the
process
This wiki has a number of enhancements to assist development and contributions to microformats. Before you start editing, see the
wiki introduction page
for instructions.
Specifications
microformats2
is stable, has a test suite, publishers, and interoperable implementations. Use it on public web pages and developing more parsers and applications.
Current, stable microformats open standard specifications.
Parsing
If you are implementing a microformats2 parser, see:
microformats2-parsing
Vocabularies
microformats2 vocabularies:
h-adr
h-card
h-entry
h-event
h-feed
h-geo
h-item
h-listing
h-product
h-recipe
h-resume
h-review
h-review-aggregate
rel microformats
Some microformats require only a rel attribute and are widely supported by consuming sites and software.
rel-author
- link to the author's home page (from an article)
rel-enclosure
- link to attachments (e.g. files) to download and cache
rel-license
- licensed content
rel-nofollow
- links in untrusted 3rd party content
rel-tag
- tag posts and pages by subject
XFN
- social relationships and
rel-me
links among profiles for the same person
Classic Microformats
In addition use well established classic microformats for the primary subject of a page for legacy
search engines
support.
hAtom
- blog posts and other date-stamped content
hCalendar
- events
hCard
- people, organizations, contacts
hListing
- listings for products or services
hMedia
- media info about images, video, audio
hProduct
- products
hRecipe
- cooking+baking recipes
hResume
- individual resumes and CVs
hReview
- individual reviews and ratings
hReview-aggregate
- aggregate reviews and ratings
adr
- address location information
geo
- latitude & longitude location (
WGS84
geographic coordinates)
Classic Drafts
Drafts are classic microformats which have varying degrees of support by consuming applications. They are stable and yet still open to change based on consuming application support, per the
process
to become specifications.
hNews
- news articles, extension of hAtom
rel-home
- link to the homepage of a site
rel-payment
- link to a payment mechanism
XMDP
- define a microformat vocabulary / profile
XOXO
- outlines
Design Patterns
Design patterns are common uses of markup across microformats.
abbr-design-pattern
class-design-pattern
date-design-pattern
datetime-design-pattern
include-pattern
value-class-pattern
rel-design-pattern
New microformats
If you're tempted to try your hand at writing a microformat please read
the process
page first!
and then take a look at
past
exploratory-discussions
for details of prior research, analysis of real-world
examples
, existing formats, and
brainstorming
of possible new microformats, per the microformats
process
Archived
Past specifications, drafts, and exploratory discussions which have either lacked (or lost) wide publishing support, implementation, or have been superceded by newer specs (see also
when does it make sense to demote a microformat spec
). These may eventually be retired, deprecated, or reincorporated into other exploratory discussions.
hAudio
robots exclusion
xFolk
- tagged links
rel-directory
- link to web directories
VoteLinks
Examples
examples-in-the-wild
implementations
zen-garden
Resources
See
resources
User centric development
user-interface
data-portability
social-network-portability
indieweb
Shared work areas
to-do
templates
pages for deletion
"Special" wiki pages
year-in-review
Tools, test cases, additional research
The first place to look for examples, code, and test cases is in the pages for each individual microformat. There are only a few cross-cutting
tools and services
that need to process more than one microformat. That section is intended for editors,
parsers
validators
, test cases, and other information relevant across multiple microformats.
Microformats wiki translations
You may read and edit microformats articles in many other languages:
languages with over 100 articles
(French)
mis à jour!
languages with over 10 articles
(Japanese)
Português
(Brazilian Portuguese)
Русский
(Russian)
languages with over 2 articles
Česky
(Czech)
汉语
(Chinese)
(German)
(Spanish)
Galego
(Galician)
Indonesia
(Bahasa Indonesia)
Polski
(Polish)
Română
(Romanian)
languages just started
العربية
(Arabic)
پارسی
(Farsi)
ქართული
(Georgian)
new!
Italiano
(Italian)
한국어
(Korean)
ภาษาไทย
(Thai)
Türkçe
(Turkish)
new!
elsewhere
Wikipedia's article on microformats
has been translated into a number of languages.
See also
other-languages
, and
how-to-start-a-new-translation
community
microformats.org
is
a community focused on using an empirical (rather than aspirational)
process
to research web data & information human publishing behaviors, openly document it on our wiki (
), discuss it in
IRC
, then brainstorm ideas & proposals based on that research for simple formats based on HTML to interoperably represent that information on the web, incrementally implement, and iterate.
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