Bristol Skillswap: February 2007:  

Microformats: The Semantic Web for the Rest of Us 

Description:     Practical demonstration and Q&A session: Microformats

 
Presenter:        Tim Beadle

When:              Tuesday 13 February, 18:00 – 21:00

18:00 – 18:30: sandwiches and beer available on arrival

                        18:30 – 19:30: demonstration

                        19:30 – 20:00: Q & A

Where:          Waterside 1

                      The Watershed

                       1 Canon's Road, Harbourside
                       Bristol

Activity:         1. What are Microformats (µFs)?

Microformats are a set of agreed vocabularies for presenting structured, semantic data in existing (X)HTML markup. They take the promise of the far-off "Semantic Web" and apply it in the here and now.

http://microformats.org/about/

2. What Tim will talk about:

a) Background: what are they, what kinds of data they can be applied to

b) What’s the point of them?

c) How to consume them

d) How to start using them in your own projects: a simple example with a ‘contact us’ page to get you inspired

e) Who is using them and how

3. What you will learn

a) What Microformats are and why they exist

b) How to use them

c) How to make them, with an easy example

d) Where to go for more information

Registration:  http://bristolskillswap.eventwax.com/microformats

Enquiries:    BristolSkillswap@gmail.com

Sponsor:      Room and food kindly provided by Knowledge West

                    Beer keenly provided by Chinwag
 

Post Event report and presentation etc. : 

Tim Beadle's presentation

Tim Beadle's report

Video of the event