On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar neilk@wikimedia.org wrote:
I didn't ask, but perhaps I could find out. It's an interesting idea, although to some degree it's once again postponing the necessary IMO work of putting licenses in the database. I mean, Commons regards correct licensing as one of the most important activities, and yet licenses aren't a real object in the system. It's very difficult to gather even basic information about how licenses are used on Commons.
Anyway as far as I can tell, microformats are dead. However, HTML5 microdata is on its way.
http://www.w3.org/TR/microdata/
A Google employee wrote that spec, but that's not a guarantee it will actually work with anything, or that Google Image Search has any idea he wrote it. ;)
OAI and Dublin Core are not dead.
https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Dublin_Core
;-)
-- John Vandenberg