I would like to author a new microformats open standards specification for my site/business. How do I get started?
A. The first thing to do before attempting a new microformat open standard is to make as much use of POSH and existing microformats open standards as possible in whatever site you are looking to mark up with your new microformat, as a way of learning what is left to be done. That is, at a minimum first: • Mark up all people and organizations as hCards and add those pages to hcard-examples-in-wild • Mark up all events and time based things as hCalendar events and add those pages to hcalendar-examples-in-wild • Mark up all reviews as hReviews and add those pages to hreview-examples-in-wild • etc. Then join the microformats IRC channel and discuss list, and ask folks what they think of your use of the microformats and if it can be improved. From that experience you will then be able to figure out what is left to be specified. Otherwise it is too hard to approach the “whole problem”. Once you have completed that, take a look at the microformats process for how to walk through the steps of
