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Kevin Marks: FounderPast Role: Salesforce, VP, Open Cloud Standards
Tantek Celik: FounderPast Role: Technorati, Chief Technologist
Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Instead of throwing away what works today, microformats intend to solve simpler problems first by adapting to current behaviors and usage patterns (e.g. XHTML, blogging).
Microformats are:
A way
of thinking about data
Design principles for formats
Adapted to current behaviors and usage patterns (“Pave the cow paths.”)
Highly correlated with semantic XHTML, AKA the real world semantics, AKA lowercase semantic web, AKA lossless XHTML
A set of simple open data format standards that many are actively developing and implementing for more/better structured blogging and web microcontent publishing in general.
“An evolutionary revolution”
