SmbMeta

The SMBmeta Initiative is an open, distributed way for small and medium-sized businesses (SMB/SmallCo) to communicate information such as the physical location of the business and the area it serves, as well at the type of business, to search engines and other services.

http://www.smbmeta.org

http://www.trellixtech.com/aboutsmbinitiative.html

Proposed file format: http://www.trellixtech.com/smbmetaspec01proposal.html

• XML, not RDF

• NAICS classification used

Kinda like FOAF, VCard.

Danny Ayers thinks they should have used RDF, or at least Dublin Core.