Tim,
this is great work. one of the challenges with museum content is how to integrate it with other information in a consistent way, so that it can be used and re-used by the people who study and use our collections -- or just appreciate them.
a modular description, that can be plugged in to other contexts is a great step towards enabling use (and enabling our own re-use of collections information in multiple institutional contexts.) Microformats are just that -- the building blocks of web 2.0 applications.
We're going to be looking at this format's applicability within steve.
thanks for getting this ball rolling!
j. trant
archives & museum informatics
www.archimuse.com
art description microformat -- fantastic!