I could be wrong, but I have not seen a tutorial on this subject. As standards are so highly regarded throughout the industry, would it not make sense to provide a resource for the uses of microformats, which to my understanding use semantic mark up and provide neat ways for different clients to categorize data

If you already have something like this I apologize, otherwise please give us the tools to develop our web sites the correct way and allow users to really benefit from the our mark up

Microformats? I'm not sure I've heard about anything like that related to web developing. Can you explain more what it's about? Maybe I know what it is but not by that name.

It's a way of using CSS to semantically mark up content.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microformat

I see, but that's something that depends on who the user is developing for and if they want to have their own custom microformat. There is no standard for microformats, so I don't think it really needs to be taught.

There are several informal specifications, but there's not a lot to teach except "use either a class name or rel attribute to put a microformat keyword, here's a list of specs".

check this site: http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator