In a similar vein to Optimus, and a number of other microformats parser is Cognition, by Toby Inkster. Congition goes beyond parsing just microformats -
Cognition is a parser for both “upper case Semantic Web” (RDF, RDFa) and “lower case semantic web” (microformats) technologies. It includes modules for exporting parsed data in a variety of […]
In the midst of a year of considerable upheaval at Yahoo! (or so it would appear from the outside) their developers continue to impress with cool new stuff. Most recently, Microsearch, an experimental search engine that in addition to traditional search techniques, extracts microformats and other metadata (RDF and RDFa) from pages to help improve […]
More musings on RDF versus Microformats
RDFa is a syntax for expressing this structured data in XHTML. The rendered, hypertext data of XHTML is reused by the RDFa markup, so that publishers don’t repeat themselves. The underlying abstract representation is RDF, which lets publishers build their own vocabulary, extend others, and evolve their vocabulary with maximal interoperability over time. The expressed […]
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