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ISBN: 978-972-8939-25-0 © 2010 IADISdiscover this information and offer various ways of using it, facilitating thus the way data is transferred fromone application to another.Regardless of the obvious utility of microformats, their penetration into the educational field is scarce.Only a few universities/institutes worldwide have implemented two of the most used microformats (hCardand hCalendar) into their web portals. But hCard and hCalendar are not the only microformats withapplicability in education; for example hReview is a microformat which could be used by tutors for writingreviews about the students’ activities and hResume could be used for the tutors and students resumes’.By adapting and integrating different types of microformats in learning web portals and by teachingstudents and tutors to use them, the administrative part of the educational process would gain significantsupport.REFERENCESÇelik, T., 2007, Microformats, Building Blocks, and You. Available from:http://tantek.com/presentations/2007/05/microformats-bb-you/Çelik, T., 2010, microformats.org at 5: Two Billion Pages With hCards, 94% of Rich Snippets. Available from:http://microformats.org/2010/07/08/microformats-org-at-5-hcards-rich-snippetsDownes, S., 2007, Why the Semantic Web Will Fail. Available from: http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2007/03/whysemantic-web-will-fail.htmlErmalai, I. et al, 2010a, 'The usefulness and functionality of Microformats in a particular eLearning system', in IEEEInternational Joint Conferences on Computational Cybernetics and Technical Informatics (ICCC-CONTI 2010),Timisora, Romania, pp. 387-390.Ermalai, I. et al, 2010b, 'Inserting Microformats into Online Learning Environments', Scientific Bulletin of “Politehnica”University of Timisoara, Transactions on Automatic Control and Computer Science, vol. 55(69), no. 1 / March, pp.37-42.Lewis, E. 2009, Microformats Made Simple.MacManus, R., 2010, Google's Semantic Web Push: Rich Snippets Usage Growing. Available from:http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_semantic_web_push_rich_snippets_usage_grow.phpMartin, A., What are microformats? Available from: http://microformats.org/wiki/what-are-microformatsMicroformats.org, 2010a, Browsers. Available from: http://microformats.org/wiki/browsersMicroformats.org, 2010b, Microformats Implementations. Available from: http://microformats.org/wiki/implementationsBerners-Lee, T. et al, 2001, 'The Semantic Web', Scientific American.390