Microdata (HTML)

<p>Microdata is a <a href="/facts/WHATWG/WoyKwRJR">WHATWG</a> <a href="/facts/HTML/sSc3fT78">HTML</a> specification used to nest <a href="/facts/Metadata/qt35z79C">metadata</a> within existing content on web pages. <a href="/facts/Search_engines/SRntsbz2">Search engines</a>, <a href="/facts/Web_crawlers/ra7D1xyb">web crawlers</a>, and <a href="/facts/Web_browser/2pfyymLs">browsers</a> can extract and process Microdata from a web page and use it to provide a richer browsing experience for users. Search engines benefit greatly from direct access to Microdata because it allows them to understand the information on web pages and provide more relevant <a href="/facts/Search_engine_results_page/tpmnjUDa">results</a> to users. Microdata uses a supporting vocabulary to describe an item and name-value pairs to assign values to its properties. Microdata is an attempt to provide a simpler way of annotating <a href="/facts/HTML_element/s4TKzjUP">HTML elements</a> with machine-readable tags than the similar approaches of using <a href="/facts/RDFa/TyPkuLjP">RDFa</a> and <a href="/facts/Microformat/NCueM8H6">microformats</a>.
</p><p>In 2013, because the W3C HTML Working Group failed to find someone to serve as an editor for the Microdata HTML specification, its development was terminated with a 'Note'. However, since that time, two new editors were selected, and five newer versions of the working draft have been published, the most recent being Working Draft 26 April 2018.
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Microdata (HTML)