HTML5 Microdata and Schema.org

• Jason Ronallo, North Carolina State University Libraries, jason_ronallo@ncsu.edu

code4lib 2012, Tuesday 7 February 2012, 11:20-11:40

When the big search engines announced support for HTML5 microdata and the schema.org vocabularies, the balance of power for semantic markup in HTML shifted.

• What is microdata?
• Where does microdata fit with regards to other approaches like RDFa and microformats?
• Where do libraries stand in the worldview of Schema.org and what can they do about it?
• How can implementing microdata and schema.org optimize your sites for search engines?
• What tools are available?

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