HTML5: microdata

• MDN Microdata
• HTML5 Doctor - Microdata

Vocabularies for:

• People
• Organizations
• Events
• Reviews

See schema.org for more informatino about vocabularies

Microdata Example from MIT OpenCourseWare

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