Finally, a big win for the Semantic Web. Google recognises the value of Microformats and RDFa for search results, especially for business contacts, personal information, product details and reviews.

Rich Snippet allows you to enhance your Google search results by marking up web pages with Microformats or RDFa.

Well, it had been known for a while, it’s just that now they provide their own testing tool, which is pretty cool, right?

Category: Microformats, Semantic Web

Author: JJ Halans

Tags: Google search, Metadata, Microformat, rdfa, search results, Semantic HTML, semantic web, Technology/Internet, testing tool

The BBC is removing its Microformats support from its programmes page as they are having a number of concerns over hCalendar’s use of the abbreviation design pattern in regard to accessibility. But at the same time they are also looking into RDFa as a future replacement.

Category: Microformats, Semantic Web

Author: JJ Halans

Tags: BBC, media, Microformats, rdfa