Microformats in Education: course catalog research starts
After a little delay, a couple weeks ago I started a page in the Microformats wiki to start collecting some examples and hopefully draft a format for course catalogue information. I see this as a really useful format to create for a number of different reasons.
Think about having an application that just search all universities course information and compare similarly numbered courses or courses with similar keywords? Think about how easy it would be for Universities when trying to translate transcripts for students that are transferring or heading to a school out of the country? Looking up that information yourself is not fun at the moment. Perhaps a Microformat can make it easy…
This should be a simple task. I am hoping to get some more examples of what currently exists from schools outside of Canada and maybe even some schema information on closed course information systems in the hope that some consistency exists already. I am fairly certain a draft format could be made quickly and easily but some research is required to ensure it works for the most amount of schools. Anyway have a look at the working space and add your 0.02.
Anyone can contribute really… so please do.