Microformats in your Identity Page

Microformats

In these days I'm evaluating the impact of adding Microformats in Identity Page
for a OpenID provider implementation developed for a big Italian Company.

Microformats, (abbreviation µF) is an approach to semantic markup meant to reuse
existing HTML and XHTML tags to express metadata.

This approach allows to identify and process in a fully automated way informations intended for final users(business cards, geographic coordinates, calendar events and so on).

Although web page content can be already processed in a fully automated way, Microformats are intended as a bridge to semantically connect data.

Data expressed with Microformats is enabled to be read in a unambiguous way by
browsers and search engines.

Version 3 of Firefor and version 8 on Internet Explorer support natively Microformats.

To know more about Microformats I suggest you Microformats

Integration of Microformats in OpenID identity Pages has a very low impact,
in fact it is just to decide what information expose and then rearrange the HTML page layout.

Considering the kind of data found in an Identity page, the first Microformat cames me to mind is the hcard.

Enabling an Identity Page with hcard will allow you collect personal information data of people you know just browsing it.