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gobibijoupost that explains abit the difference between microformats and RDF
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Microformats are a wildly popular set of formats for embedding metadata within normal XHTML. The primary advantage Microformats offer over RDF (including its embedded serializations) is that you can embed metadata directly in the XHTML, reducing the amount of markup you need to write (e.g. you don't have to write XHTML and additional RDF). Many people have contended that Microformats are a possible replacement for RDF, however Microformats were not designed to cover the same scope as RDF was. While both Microformats and RDF make it possible to store data about data, they simply do not work to solve the same set of problems.
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To me, Microformats are to RDF as HTML 5 is to XHTML; on the surface they both appear to be a solution to the same problem, but the former misses the point as to why the latter was created. On the very same about page I cited earlier there is a bullet point that suggests that Microformats will be part of the semantic web (note the lowercase letters, implying a semantic web, not the one envisioned by the W3C). I find that all competing Semantic Web development paths fall short of creating an entirely linked Semantic Web. The kind of Semantic Web that gives us a platform to stand on above the Web document layer. Microformats have their place, just not as a replacement to RDF.
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19 Oct 07
Alberto FernandezMicroformats are a wildly popular set of formats for embedding metadata within normal XHTML. The primary advantage Microformats offer over RDF (including its embedded serializations) is that you can embed metadata directly in the XHTML, reducing the amoun
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18 Oct 07
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Kazuhito Kidachi"To me, Microformats are to RDF as HTML 5 is to XHTML; on the surface they both appear to be a solution to the same problem, but the former misses the point as to why the latter was created."
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17 Oct 07
Alan DeanI don't blame the Microformats people for this confusion over what Microformats are or are not. Rather, I blame the sensationalists and know-nots that tend to jump on any new standard, format, or design pattern.
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