# new microdata effort by google et al

**URL:** <https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/new-microdata-effort-by-google-et-al/1015>\
**Category:** CSL Development\
**Created:** [June 2, 2011, 11:15pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/new-microdata-effort-by-google-et-al/1015 "2011-06-02T23:15:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Bruce_D_Arcus1)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 11:15pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/new-microdata-effort-by-google-et-al/1015/1 "2011-06-02T23:15:27Z")

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FYI:

[http://schema.org/](http://schema.org/)

They have some support for citation/bibliographic-related content, but  
it’s very incomplete (and man I hate some of the design decision in  
HTML5/microdata; the itemscope attribute is just heinous).

[http://schema.org/CreativeWork](http://schema.org/CreativeWork)

Still, for those that are interested in RDFa, this ought to be easy  
enough to also support. And one could always extend it with some  
properties from BIBO.

Bruce

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**Author:** ![Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Bruce\_D\_Arcus1](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/u/Bruce_D_Arcus1)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2011, 7:24pm UTC](https://discourse.citationstyles.org/t/new-microdata-effort-by-google-et-al/1015/2 "2011-06-08T19:24:31Z")

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So FYI …

> FYI:
> 
> [http://schema.org/](http://schema.org/)
> 
> They have some support for citation/bibliographic-related content, but  
> it’s very incomplete (and man I hate some of the design decision in  
> HTML5/microdata; the itemscope attribute is just heinous).
> 
> [http://schema.org/CreativeWork](http://schema.org/CreativeWork)
> 
> Still, for those that are interested in RDFa, this ought to be easy  
> enough to also support. And one could always extend it with some  
> properties from BIBO.

Some us decided it makes more sense to make authoring RDFa (1.1)  
easier, and so one outcome I slapped together is this:

[http://bdarcus.github.com/bibo-in-html/profile](http://bdarcus.github.com/bibo-in-html/profile)  
[https://github.com/bdarcus/bibo-in-html/blob/master/examples.md](https://github.com/bdarcus/bibo-in-html/blob/master/examples.md)

So, no need for namespaces or namespace prefixes.

Note, though: this may get folded into a broader profile effort.

Bruce