Microformats are not MicroContent

I have been waiting for someone to say this. And I am afraid that I agree. Frederick Giasson laments that microformats do not have an URI. Giasson tries to make links between specific hreviews and hcards, he wants to create a MicroWeb. And in order to do that an URI is needed. And in my definition that makes microformats not MicroContent. I listened well to Marc Canter, so I added addressability as a key characteristic of MicroContent.

However this does not matter at all. Just see MicroContent as a future and microformats as an essential intermediairy. I see microformats as a great step to introduce structure on the web. Live Clipboard adds possibility of manipulation. Once I will be able to copy an hcard and put it in my local addressbook, I will have introduced some addressability. Maybe they can add anchors to an hformat in order to add addressability. (maybe it is possible to do this, I did not yet dive into it)

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Hi!

I would not say “laments” but misunderstanding

I agree that microformats are an essential intermediairy. I can only encourage Technorati to go ahead with their “microformat aggregator/search engine”. It’s essential that such companies start such kind of projects. It’s a first step (essential) toward something bigger (semantic web?).

By the way, could you refer me to some primary sources that talk about these “MicroContent”? What it’s all about, the philo, the caracteristics, etc.

Thanks!

Salutations,

Fred

hCalendar at least has a UID field (which comes from the iCalendar spec).

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