In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin McEvoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin McEvoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 01:06 -0700, Justin Maxwell wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Regarding hAlbum (http://microformats.org/wiki/audio-album-proposal), >> I believe it would be beneficial to include fields referencing >> catalog number ("identifier") and publisher ("publisher"), both >> optional. Is there any compelling objection to this? > >You can specify roles in the contributor vcard [1] e.g ><span class="contributor vcard"> ><span class="role">Publisher</span>...etc > >roles are: artist, publisher, guitarist, vocalist, violinist, lead >singer, backup singer, bassist, drummer, manager, roadie... etc Care should be taken not to confuse publisher (e.g. Northern Songs, Boozey and Hawkes) and the label (EMI, Deutsche Gramaphon). Publishers deal with the rights in compositions; labels issue recordings. An album may have more than one publisher; a single recording may appear on more than one label. >As for specifying an Identifier well unfortunately the from the >examples we used [2] there wasnt much evidence of any kind of >Identifier other than the url's themselves. It seems to me that your examples concentrate on sites publishing downloadable or streaming audio files, and that you (or "we", collectively) haven't examined sites publishing descriptions of recordings on CD, vinyl or whatever (which would seem to be covered by both the "problem" statement and the "purpose" on the brainstorming page, and certainly should be within the scope of this microformat). Once you do, you'll find plenty of examples of catalogue numbers being published. For example: <http://www.jazzdisco.org/miles/dis/c/> <http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PFArchives/DUKLP.htm> <http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.553406> We should also be careful to distinguish /types/ of identifier (catalogue number, UID, ISBN, Amazon-ASIN, etc.) -- Andy Mabbett _______________________________________________ microformats-new mailing list microformats-new@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new
