hCalendar microformat support in the events calendar
In our continuous effort to support microformats, we are proud to announce expanded hCalendar support on the Wayne State University Events Calendar.
If you are not familiar with microformats the goal is to use plain HTML and embed through classes and Semantic HTML information about the content. Similar to XML to describe content but in plain of HTML so an additional document is not necessary. Recently Yahoo released Search Monkey which takes advantage of microformats to mesh search results with the information on the result pages.
Support for hCalendar is on both the event listing page and the individual event pages. Below are some screen shots of the pages and what can be pulled from them.
As of right now we don’t have any plans to implement a Search Monkey app just yet but this is the first step for us or the community to pull from these events. Especially since the Academic Calendar is now in the events calendar.
This is just a small change to the calendar but it shows our contuned support and drive to support web standards and initiatives.
