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channel,,en_GB,http://tobyinkster.co.uk/tag/microformats/,"Articles Tagged with ""Microformats""",
item,B,en_GB,http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2008/07/16/hcard-rdfa/,16/07/2008: Extending hCard with RDFa,"<p><a href=""http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard"">hCard</a> is an <span class=""caps"">HTML</span>-based format for describing contacts (people, organisations, etc) on web pages. It allows you to mark up which elements represent their name, their address, their birthday and so forth.</p>  <p>While hCard offers many useful properties that can be used to describe contacts, some are considered beyond the scope of the hCard specification. This is where <span class=""caps"">RDF</span>a comes in&#8230;</p>"
item,B,en_GB,http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2008/03/09/sw/,09/03/2008: The Semantic Web,"<p>One of my current interests is the <a href=""http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web"">semantic web</a>&nbsp;&#8212; that is, the push to move from publishing text on the Web to publishing structured data, which can actually be <em>understood</em> by computers (in so far as a computer can truly &#8220;understand&#8221; anything). By publishing information so that computers can understand it, you make the Web into a huge mine of interconnected data, free to be queried by everyone.</p>  <p>As an example of what I mean, searching for the keyword &#8220;train&#8221; on Google brings up results related to:</p>   <ul> <li>trains, as a form of transport</li> <li>the band <a href=""http://www.trainline.com/"">Train</a></li> <li>IT training courses</li> <li>toy trains</li> </ul>    <p>In the semantic web, the search engine and my computer would inherently understand the difference between these concepts, so if I wanted to know about the new Train album, I wouldn&#8217;t get any result related to locomotives!</p>  <p>What I&#8217;m particularly interested in is ways of embedding semantic data in ordinary web pages, so that we have a single web that can be&#8230;</p>"