Books

This page lists books which provide description and documentation of microformats. Most recent first, grouped by year.

Errata

For errata in any of the following, if any, see http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Errata/[ISBN], where [ISBN] is the ISBN with no hyphens or spaces. (Perhaps this could be added to Special:Booksources?)

2008

• "Microformats - Semantik für jedermann: Das semantische Web und wie Microformats die Entwicklung vorantreiben werden" by Florian Beer a german book about microformats, technical and historical background and references for the most important formats.
• Japanese translation of Allsopp's Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0; translated by Noriyo Asano, under the editorship of Kazuhito Kidachi
  • Mainichi Communications Inc., early 2008?
  • Noriyo has translated "Ambient Findability" and "Designing Interfaces"; Kazuhito is one of the well-known advocates of Web Standards and microformats in Japan.
  • Read their posts about the translation: Noriyo's and Kazuhito's (both in Japanese).

2007

• Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0 by John Allsopp
  • Friends of Ed, ISBN 9781590598146, March 2007
  • Read Allsopp's Appendix (PDF).

2006

• Introduction to Neogeography by Andrew Turner
  • O'Reilly, ISBN 9780596529956, December 2006
  • This is a PDF book, part of the O'Reilly Short Cuts series. Covers the ADR and GEO microformats.

• Using Microformats by Brian Suda
  • O'Reilly, ISBN 9780596528218, 2006
  • This is a PDF book, part of the O'Reilly Short Cuts series. It is a solid introduction to all the established microformats, the history, philosophy and a look at where microformats are headed.

• Web Design In A Nutshell, Third Edition by Jennifer Niederst Robbins. IMPORTANT: This applies to the THIRD EDITION only!
  • O'Reilly Media, ISBN 9780596009878, 2006
  • Provides an excellent modern standards based foundation for web design that is ideal for understanding microformats, and a whole introductory chapter on microformats as well.
  • See also Web Design in a Nutshell, Third Edition (on oreilly.com).

• HTML Mastery by Paul Haine
  • Friends of Ed, ISBN 9781590597651, 2006
  • Chapter 5, pp. 117-154: Purpose Built Semantics: Microformats and Other Stories.

2005

• Hacking RSS and Atom by Leslie M. Orchard
  • Wiley, ISBN 9780764597589, 2005
  • The last chapter has a nice section on both publishing and consuming hCalendar events in either a feed or as part of a page. Les has implemented various microformats (hCalendar entry form as a greasemonkey script, XOXO dynamic editing).
  • You can find source code for the hCalendar scripts from my book at my site. Look for the files starting with ch18. Buy the book if you like it! LesOrchard 20:11, 25 Mar 2006 (PST)