Embedding Microdata in Library Online Services for Better Discovery of Content

Kumar, Vinit Embedding Microdata in Library Online Services for Better Discovery of Content., 2012 . In International Conference on Trends in Knowledge and Information Dynamics, Bangalore, 10-13 July 2012. [Conference paper]

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HTML5 has seen the day of light and with this the much awaited microdata mechanism has also become a standard. Browsers conventionally use the HTML tags for better readability of webpages for humans. There are cases when it is felt to provide structures to the HTML pages and the inability of HTML tags defined in the HTML specifications to handle such structure. The new specifications of HTML, HTML5 provide a very good mechanism to define structure in webpages. The mechanism popularly known as microdata is easier to implement than the other formats such as, microformats and RDFa. No doubt these structures are machine-readable providing the machines/software programs to search for specific types of information. Recently, some of the popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing joined hands to support microdata. This collaboration resulted in introduction of Schema.org, a collection of terms that webmasters can use to markup their pages to improve the display of search results. This paves a way for libraries to also augment and implement their web pages with microdata. The present article focuses on the techniques and elements used to create a semantic structure for a webpage using microdata. The paper starts by discussing various efforts going on in the arena of Microdata and micro formats etc. then it puts forth the ways by which libraries can use it. The various available tools, and the know how for publishing microdata is also discussed in detail keeping in mind the libraries will be benefited at large.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: Metadata, Microdata, Schema.org, Rich Snippets
Subjects: L. Information technology and library technology > LC. Internet, including WWW.
L. Information technology and library technology > LQ. Library automation systems.
Depositing user: Vinit Kumar
Date deposited: 19 Jul 2018 04:05
Last modified: 19 Jul 2018 04:05
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/33201

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(1) Embedding Microdata in Library Online Services for Better Discovery of Content. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305768993_Embedding_Microdata_in_Library_Online_Services_for_Better_Discovery_of_Content [accessed Jul 09 2018].


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