Like Annie, I found the Jason Ronallo post a bit over my head (I’m currently taking LS 560, so not having that in my background may be part of why), so I did some poking around online to see if anyone had explained the concept for those of us with only a basic knowledge of HTML under our belts. I wanted to share with y’all a post by Marco Kuiper, called “HTML5 Microdata: What is it, and why should you care?” that I found very helpful in illuminating the high points of microdata in an accessible fashion.
Basically, he says, it’s all an effort to make HTML5 a semantic language, to allow the markup to reflect the meanings of the text instead of just how it’s meant to be displayed. This makes the markup a lot more readable to machines, including search engine crawlers. Pretty cool, and I appreciated the way he explained things for a dummy like me. Hopefully it will be a good supplement for some other folks too.
I didn’t realize you were a first-year, too! We’re taking the same classes right now. I will definitely need to read that Microdata article.
Yep, it’s my second semester.
Web 3.0 strives for better publishing*, which means a lotta “under the hood” stuff not meant for human consumption!
*from the perspective of search engines!
You are the lucky winner of my classmate response blog post this week! What are you going to do with your prize?
[...] week’s classmate response post is from Becky McDaniel with More on microdata (see the post here- http://wp.slis.ua.edu/maccall-spring2013-ls566-19/2013/02/12/more-on-microdata/#comment-94). Becky talks about some of the things that I was thinking and dealing with about this week’s [...]
Love it! Thank you so much for the link! I really appreciate a ‘dummies’ approach as well!
That supplemental article was a great find! Love these blog posts – learning more from everyone else that I thought I would