#microformats 2018-11-20

2018-11-20 UTC
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@danbri ↩️ it's totally understandable, not everyone has the time to track all the terminological nuances --- I've seen this stuff called "microformats" too, understandable given that the MF community were trailblazers in this area (twitter.com/_/status/1064961200088203264)
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@mrcruce ↩️ We've struggled w terminology re various forms of markup, too. Would 'Microformats' be the best frame to use in the Facebook docs example? I have not yet found an extant canonical taxonomy of markup, save highest-level: - Presentational - Procedural - Descriptive (twitter.com/_/status/1064967846046965760)
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@danbri ↩️ 'Microformats' would be misleading here, as it is a very specific name for a project with its own processes, syntax designs and agreed vocabularies. 'Structured data', while bland, oxymoronic and vague, does kinda work... (twitter.com/_/status/1064970208220082176)
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@aaranged ↩️ Yeah, I see "microformats" used all the time as a proxy for any number of structured data vocabularies and/or syntaxes. The pedant in me *tries* to just ignore the inexactitude of this when it's actually inconsequential. (twitter.com/_/status/1064970392136146944)
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@aaranged ↩️ Nope. :) Main challenge here, IMO, is vocabulary *and* syntax are sometimes tightly bound for some types of "structured data" (Microformats, OGP, etc.) but more separated for others (#schema.org, DCMI, etc.). (twitter.com/_/status/1064978512405135360)
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