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 […]
Wondering what this RDFa thing is all about - what it looks like, what it’s for, how it works? The W3C has a new RDFa primer online to help get you up to speed.
Michael Kaply’s must have firefox extension, Operator has reached 0.9.
Get it while it’s hot!
According to Michael, this version features
Songbird support!
Fixes to make sure things work in Firefox 3
Menus no longer magically disappear on some pages
hCards supports nested menus to access actions (more logical than trying to use adr for multiple addresses)
adr is no longer on […]
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 […]
Michael Kaply’s fantastic microformats extension for Firefox, Operator, just turned 0.8, and has also acquired its own page. Operator also now recognizes embedded RDF, and RDFa, and has a slew of other fixes and new features (including auto hide of the toolbar, a great idea).
[tags]microformats, operator, firefox, rdfa, erdf[/tags]
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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