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'''Microdata''' is a [[WHATWG]] [[HTML]] specification used to nest [[metadata]] within existing content on web pages.<ref name="WHATWG"/> [[Search engines]], [[web crawlers]], and [[Web browser|browsers]] 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 this structured data because it allows them to understand the information on web pages and provide more relevant [[Search engine results page|results]] to users.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lyquix.com/blog-and-news/microdata-the-future-of-search-engine-relevance-and-search-engine-optimization-seo |title=MicroData - The Future of Search Engine Relevance and Optimization (SEO) |publisher=Lyquix.com |date= |accessdate=2016-06-30}}</ref><ref>Schema.org http://schema.org/</ref> Microdata uses a supporting vocabulary to describe an item and name-value pairs to assign values to its properties.<ref name="DIVE"/> Microdata is an attempt to provide a simpler way of annotating [[HTML element]]s with machine-readable tags than the similar approaches of using [[RDFa]] and [[microformat]]s.
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'.<ref>{{cite mailing list|url=https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-admin/2013Oct/0018.html |title=WG Decision to publish HTML Microdata as a WG Note |mailing-list=public-html-admin@w3.org |date=2 Oct 2013 |first=Paul |last=Cotton |accessdate=2016-06-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.w3.org/TR/microdata/ |title=HTML Microdata |publisher=W3.org |date=23 June 2014 |accessdate=2016-06-30}}</ref> However, since that time, two new editors were selected, and
== Vocabularies ==
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