What are microformats?
Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.
Leaving aside arguments about whether or not tag clouds are the new mullets (http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0405d.shtml), I've been pondering how to make one that is accessible, given the questionable accessibility of most of the ones out there. Tag clouds
Microformats: Recognizing the complexity of RDF and OWL, the goal of microformats is to embed basic semantics (meaningful relationships) right into HTML pages. It is not as expressive right now as RDF and OWL, but it's compact & and uses at-hand XHTML. A
R. Khare, and T. Çelik. WWW '06: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web, page 865-866. New York, NY, USA, ACM Press, (2006)
R. Khare, and T. Celik. WWW '06: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web, page 865--866. New York, NY, USA, ACM Press, (2006)