Ben Ward
Ben Ward is a British web developer based in San Francisco, and an active member and contributor to the microformats community since 2007. He has documented publishing patterns from across the Web, contributed to various specifications as an editor and author, and worked on mark-up patterns for accessible publishing. By day he works as a software engineer at Twitter, and also writes sporadically about the Web on his blog at benward.me. You can reach him through his domain, or follow @benward on Twitter.
Articles by Ben Ward:
Microformats: Digging Deeper into the Web
Wednesday, 1st December 2010
Extracting, repurposing and combining information is a core activity for info pros so it's good to know that we are being helped with this on the Web, even if we are not aware of it. Ben Ward describes how microformats - vocabularies which enable recurring information to be described and then reused - are making content available in a richer form and facilitating the combining of data.
Microformats: Digging Deeper into the Web [ABSTRACT]
Wednesday, 1st December 2010
Extracting, repurposing and combining information is a core activity for info pros so it's good to know that we are being helped with this on the Web, even if we are not aware of it. Ben Ward describes how microformats - vocabularies which enable recurring information to be described and then reused - are making content available in a richer form and facilitating the combining of data.
Community session
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2025 strategic planning; evaluating research reports; The Financial Times, news and AI
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