Institutional Knowledge

Yesterday we launched a refresh of the online Campus Directory as apart of our efforts to remediate websites that are not accessible. The update looks more or less the same visually, but there’s much more exciting stuff happening under the hood including a sprinkling of the hCard Microformat where applicable.

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Years ago in an interview I was asked how I would solve the university’s web consistency problem. At the time, the thought was “good luck!” In an environment with a decentralized web site, it seemed unlikely that content management would happen. That question has been asked once again, but now we’re in a better position […]

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A very subtle change occurred on campus today. No, it wasn’t the mysterious JunkMail Digests that appeared in our inbox, rather a step forward toward a better future.

At the request of Public Affairs, we updated the Public Facilities page. With the ATI we’ve been cleaning up some of the pages on the campus web server […]

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Lets look at the Academic Calendar for fall 2006 for a moment. Would you rather have the page marked up with microformat hcal information, have the information available as XML (RSS & Atom), or in iCal format?

Me? I’d take XML first…but then I’m an edge case.

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Wherein we experiment with microformats.

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Scott came back from SXSW all jazzed about microformats …and really, who could blame him? It’s something so simple and easy to implement (it’s just markup) that to not embrace them is an act of stubborness.

But the first step in taking advantage of a microfomat is knowing of it’s existence. For that, we […]

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Microformats are an informal means of marking up web pages with semantically meaningful metadata to allow for greater interoperability with other applications.

About Microformats

Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Instead of throwing away what works today, microformats intend to […]

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