Microformats now on all web page footers
We have just expanded our vcard microformated university address from the university homepage to all pages in the universities Content Management System. The list can be found here, it doesn’t include all the pages by far but it is a crucial step to integrate microformats into all pages at the university. Not only the vcard for the university address but eventually all events, profiles and news items.
Current code in footers:
<address class="vcard" id="wsu_copyright"> <a href="http://wayne.edu/" class="url fn org">Wayne State University</a> <span class="adr"> <span class="locality">Detroit</span>, <span class="region">MI</span> <span class="postal-code">48202</span> <span class="country-name">United States</span> </span> © 2007 </address>
Microformats are important to us as a university for a few reasons. First they are the right thing to do, since IE hates XML its difficult to describe the content on web pages. POSH helps but it only goes so far, the relationships and descriptions of the items being represented are missing. Microformats jump right in, they offer a way to describe content on a page while still being standard compliant.
Secondly as a higher ed institution we are here to bring knowledge to everyone and publish our research. Microformats help with people and services discovering and sifting through all the information we provide.
Our microformat initiative starts with these vcard footers, the events calendar is next and then profiles. Eventually we hope to use all microformats where necessary.
