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November 10, 2014 |
Design Vs Dev
Today we discuss adding semantic metadata to your HTML via Microformats and Microdata.
Discussion Points
- What is semantic metadata?
- What standards are there?
- How could it be used?
- How is it actually used?
- Why don’t we use it more?
- Should I use it on my web pages/apps?
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Resources
- Schema.org – Microdata schema definition site.
- Open Graph – The meta tag side of Open Graph (not the Facebook App side).
- Microformats – An older standard, mostly superceded by Microdata.
- Google’s Microdata Support – Specifically, look at the bottom to see the list of entities they support
- Google drops support for authorship metadata
- Structured Data Testing Tool – Use this to test if you’re correctly adding your semantic metadata.
- Extracted metadata from one of my websites – This is my D&D game on Obsidian Portal. You can see the metadata extracted.
- Extracted metadata from my profile – This is Micah’s profile page on Obsidian Portal. It gives a lot of metadata about Micah.
- OG Linter – Help debug your Open Graph meta tags. (Suggested by Melinda in the comments.)
Follow Up
- Re: Semantic Metadata – by Carlos Loeza, where he lays out his ideas on why we should all be using Microdata.
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