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The MLibrary 2.0 SIG Brownbags will begin in January 2008. Look for further information soon!
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'''Microformats'''
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:Monday January 21, 2008
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:Noon - 1pm, 100 Hatcher
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Jacob Glenn will present a brief introduction to [[microformats]], a simple, lightweight means of publishing structured data in [[XHTML]]. He'll cover the basic types of microformats and demonstrate their use in a web browser. He'll then examine microformats as a component of various strategies to expose bibliographic data on the web, in the interest of provoking discussion about how the library can make our collections more visible to the web at large.
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We will also discuss possible topics for future brownbags.
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams

Revision as of 11:07, 8 January 2008

Microformats

Monday January 21, 2008
Noon - 1pm, 100 Hatcher

Jacob Glenn will present a brief introduction to microformats, a simple, lightweight means of publishing structured data in XHTML. He'll cover the basic types of microformats and demonstrate their use in a web browser. He'll then examine microformats as a component of various strategies to expose bibliographic data on the web, in the interest of provoking discussion about how the library can make our collections more visible to the web at large.

We will also discuss possible topics for future brownbags.

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams

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