Embedding Semantic Metadata in Web Markup for Fun and Profit

Tech Talks Presentation by William Hicks, July 7, 2010

Introduction

(X)HTML+RDFa. OpenGraph. Microdata.  Microformats.  Why? What? When? Where? How?  This presentation compares half a dozen competing specs/trends in less than an hour.  With what you learn you’ll be able to impress members of the opposite sex at parties with such zingers as “my FOAF’s DOAC includes playing with Twine and OWLS, building Web Workers and Drawing on Canvas, and for this he gets paid in COinS."

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About the Author:  Librarian William Hicks is the technology coordinator for the UNT Libraries' User Interface Unit.