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Some of the same folks who pioneered tags are now working on microformats.

Microformats are simple data schemas for describing people, places, events, reviews, lists, and so forth – the things people frequently blog about. People use them to embed structured information in Web pages and blogs so that their content can be more easily discovered, indexed, aggregated, and summarized. However, the structured content can also be used by knowledge services.

Microformats are an important development for the AI community, so I’m going to spend some time on them.

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