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Improving User Experience by Taking Advance of Semantic Information of Microformats on Municipal Websites

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This research regards about the use of microformats as a tool to add semantic information to government web sites. The use of microformats allows the developer to add different resources such as maps, calendars, etc, in an easy way. The paper also shows a survey of the already existing microformats and which of them are useful to be applied to government web sites.

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Rodríguez, R., Vera, P., Estevez, E., Giulianelli, D., Welicki, L., Trigueros, A. (2011). Improving User Experience by Taking Advance of Semantic Information of Microformats on Municipal Websites. In: Cipolla Ficarra, F.V., de Castro Lozano, C., Nicol, E., Kratky, A., Cipolla-Ficarra, M. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction, Tourism and Cultural Heritage. HCITOCH 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6529. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18348-5_4

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