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Microformats: a pragmatic path to the semantic web

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International World Wide Web Conference archive
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web table of contents

Edinburgh, Scotland

POSTER SESSION: Browsers and UI, web engineering, hypermedia & multimedia, security, and accessibility table of contents

Pages: 865 - 866

Year of Publication: 2006

ISBN:1-59593-323-9

Authors

Rohit Khare	CommerceNet Labs, Palo Alto, CA
Tantek Çelik	Technorati, San Francisco, CA

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SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Microformats are a clever adaptation of semantic XHTML that makes it easier to publish, index, and extract semi-structured information such as tags, calendar entries, contact information, and reviews on the Web. This makes it a pragmatic path towards achieving the vision set forth for the Semantic Web.Even though it sidesteps the existing "technology stack" of RDF, ontologies, and Artificial Intelligence-inspired processing tools, various microformats have emerged that parallel the goals of several well-known Semantic Web projects. This poster compares their prospects to the Semantic Web according to Rogers' Diffusion of Innovation model.

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