With Google, Yahoo, and Bing's announcement of schema.org, microdata is quickly gaining ground as a way to create applications that rely on data from many different websites. In this article, learn how to use Drupal to add microdata to your pages. Easily make your content available for use in applications such as Google's Rich Snippets.
Microdata enables you to share content with other sites and services, like Google's Recipe View, using inline metadata. It is much like RDFa; as schema.org says "The data model used is very generic and derived from RDF Schema". Because of this, Microdata can borrow a lot from the core RDF module. It is still in the extremely early stages
