For Science Hack Day, I have have been thinking about a topic that was of great interest to me whilst I was at university – artificial intelligence. Science Hack Day hasn’t actually happened yet, by the way. It’s going on this weekend (19th & 20th June) at the Guardian offices, and there’s still time to [...]
Category Archives: Microformats
HTML5 Microdata – Over-cooked?
May 24, 2009 – 12:15 pm
What is Microdata? Microdata is HTML5′s answer to how we should go about embedding machine-readable data in our mark-up. At a high level, microdata consists of a group of name-value pairs. The groups are called items, and each name-value pair is a property. Items and properties are represented by regular elements. A simple example looks [...]
Microformats, the BBC and friends
July 7, 2008 – 12:46 pm
I recently had the job of letting the microformats community know that the BBC were having to drop hCalendar due to accessibility concerns surrounding the use of abbr and the date-time pattern. My friend and colleague Jake Archibald published a summary of what’s happened so far, what the current alternative suggestions are and the BBC’s [...]
