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

Table of contents
1 Errata
2 2008
3 2007
4 2006
5 2005
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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?)

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2008

  • "Microformats - Semantik für jedermann: Das semantische Web und wie Microformats die Entwicklung vorantreiben werden" (http://www.amazon.de/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.de%2FMicroformats-jedermann-semantische-Entwicklung-vorantreiben%2Fdp%2F3836492210%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1210271777%26sr%3D8-3&site-redirect=at&tag=blognopanicat-21&linkCode=ur2&camp=1638&creative=6742) by Florian Beer (http://blog.no-panic.at/) 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 (http://iaspectrum.net/about.html) has translated "Ambient Findability" and "Designing Interfaces"; Kazuhito (http://kidachi.kazuhi.to/) is one of the well-known advocates of Web Standards and microformats in Japan.
    • Read their posts about the translation: Noriyo's (http://blog.iaspectrum.net/2007/09/microformats_d0f7.html#more) and Kazuhito's (http://kidachi.kazuhi.to/blog/archives/002367.html) (both in Japanese).
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2007

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2006

  • Introduction to Neogeography (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/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 (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/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 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596009879) 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 (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wdnut3/) (on oreilly.com).
  • HTML Mastery (http://www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=1590597656) by Paul Haine
    • Friends of Ed, ISBN 9781590597651, 2006
    • Chapter 5, pp. 117-154: Purpose Built Semantics: Microformats and Other Stories.
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2005

  • Hacking RSS and Atom (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0764597582) 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 (http://decafbad.com/trac/wiki/HackingRssAndAtom). Look for the files starting with ch18. Buy the book if you like it! LesOrchard 20:11, 25 Mar 2006 (PST)
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