Re: Fwd: [uf-discuss] Legal implications of using Microformats

2007-04-27 Thread Manu Sporny
Brian Suda wrote: --- if you can give-us any other information, who exactly the company is, etc and any other information from the legal team we can attempt to work around these problems or debunk the FUD. Our company is Digital Bazaar, Inc. we provide digital content delivery services (buying

Re: [uf-discuss] Legal implications of using Microformats

2007-05-02 Thread Manu Sporny
to make sure that the community was listening before we went out and arranged to have that happen. -- manu -- Manu Sporny President/CEO, Digital Bazaar, Inc. http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/ ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss

Re: [uf-discuss] video-metadata-models

2007-05-02 Thread Manu Sporny
Andy Mabbett wrote: /video-metadata-models /microshow That's incredibly strange - both of these links appear under the Related and See Also sections of those pages. Should red-link items be placed under each of those sections? There isn't anything at the end of the links to relate to or see?

[uf-discuss] Microformats gets strong showing in Firefox 3 UI

2007-06-03 Thread Manu Sporny
Things can still change, but after talking a bit with the Firefox 3 folks - Microformats are starting to look more and more like they're going to be supported in a big way in the next major release of the browser.

Re: [uf-discuss] Mediawiki accesskey shortcut usage instructions

2007-07-25 Thread Manu Sporny
Paul Wilkins wrote: From: Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Wilkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes It could be a lot better if it said Accesskeys differ according to your browser. which links off to a page that explains about Accesskeys, followed by use ACCESSKEY S to save It would be better

[uf-discuss] Re: Getting legal help (was: inappropriate behaviour)

2007-08-02 Thread Manu Sporny
Scott Reynen wrote: The microformats admins have decided to ban Andy Mabbet from this community (both email lists and wiki) for one week, due to continued failure to adhere to the be nice guideline [1] after a private warning. I don't condone Andy's tone when replying to the thread that

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats UI in Firefox 3

2007-08-28 Thread Manu Sporny
Alex Faaborg wrote: Yes, while previous Firefox designs have focused on the browser injecting UI into the page, this discussion is about how the content creator should provide links and buttons for acting on microformatted content. I'm probably being a bit dense, but it looks like we're

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats UI in Firefox 3

2007-08-28 Thread Manu Sporny
Manu Sporny wrote: Here are some other examples: action://map/find/eiffel-tower action:// Sorry, here are the other examples: action://location/find/eiffel-tower action://license/fulltext/Harry-Potter-and-the-Order-of-the-Phoenix action://feed/subscribe/cool-hatom-feed action://audio/play

Re: [uf-discuss] Need for plain-language intros for each microformat

2007-08-29 Thread Manu Sporny
Andy Mabbett wrote: I think it's time we moved the specs to *-spec or *-specification, and used the root page for each microformat, such as the above, for a plain-language introduction, taking care to avoid jargon as much as possible. +1 for this idea. There have been several times where I've

Re: [uf-discuss] Microformats and Firefox 3

2007-09-04 Thread Manu Sporny
. This is the same way that Eclipse shows the developer warnings, comments and errors via the code editor. It would do well as a transient UI AND wouldn't be intrusive on the browsing experience when the UI is active. Exciting stuff... -- manu -- Manu Sporny http://wiki.digitalbazaar.com/en/haudio-case-study

Re: [uf-discuss] Firefox 3 Javascript Semantic Data UI Control (was: Microformats and Firefox 3)

2007-09-05 Thread Manu Sporny
Dimitri Glazkov wrote: I really like the idea of allowing additional control over presentation via pseudo-classes, but I am worried that :target isn't quite right, at least if we follow the spec to the letter (http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#target-pseudo), specifically since this

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: [uf-new] Mapping Microformats to RDFa

2007-10-12 Thread Manu Sporny
Brian Suda wrote: Also, there is the same discussion on going on the RDFa mailing list: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf/2007Oct/0113.html As Ivan Herman replied on that list, GRDDL handles much of what you are looking for as well and much of those Microformats -

[uf-discuss] Re: Precise Expansion Patterns

2007-12-15 Thread Manu Sporny
Paul Wilkins wrote: The hAudio time should be denoted in seconds. If 3:23 is given it's to be seen as three minutes and twenty two seconds. If hours are needed it should be 1:3:23 (0 prefix optional) to denote 1 hour three minutes and twenty two seconds. This way the hAudio standard can

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Precise Expansion Patterns

2007-12-16 Thread Manu Sporny
Paul Wilkins wrote: Another possible solution is to provide greater detail for the time itself. abbr title=00:23:002:23/abbr This I understand is an acceptable title for screen readers, it expands suitably on 2:23 (which could be 2 hours 23 minutes or 2 minutes 23 seconds) and it's

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Precise Expansion Patterns

2007-12-16 Thread Manu Sporny
Paul Wilkins wrote: span class=duration title=PT2M23S2:23/span With this it is not possible to prevent the title from being used by screen readers and other people who hover their mouse over the time value. This is not true. You can set several, of not all, screen readers to not read titles

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Precise Expansion Patterns

2007-12-16 Thread Manu Sporny
solve those problems. Andy Mabbett wrote: On Sun, December 16, 2007 19:14, Manu Sporny wrote: Paul Wilkins wrote: Another possible solution is to provide greater detail for the time itself. abbr title=00:23:002:23/abbr If you are suggesting that we use the hh:mm:ss time format

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Precise Expansion Patterns

2007-12-17 Thread Manu Sporny
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#adef-title title = text [CS] This attribute offers advisory information about the element for which it is set.

[uf-discuss] Intro to semantic web (video)

2007-12-25 Thread Manu Sporny
Happy Holidays, all :) I've had a hard time explaining what the semantic web is about in a concise manner over the past several months, so I decided to focus on answering that for people that don't really know much about the web. I spent the last couple of days playing around with the video

[uf-discuss] RDFa Basics video (8 minutes)

2008-01-07 Thread Manu Sporny
Finished an RDFa Basics video this weekend. It attempts to explain RDF, CURIEs, N3 and basic RDFa in 8 minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldl0m-5zLz4 Thought some of you would want to learn about some of the upcoming features of XHTML2 as well as compare and contrast how RDFa differs from

Re: [uf-discuss] Firefox 3 (was: Icons of MF wiki)

2008-01-11 Thread Manu Sporny
Michael Smethurst wrote: On 11/1/08 10:31, Alex Faaborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do you have any plans to support rdf-a in the interface? In 4.0, 5.0, 6.0? We haven't decided yet, and I would love to hear people's opinions both in favor of and against including RDFa support in a future

Re: [uf-discuss] Digg joins DataPortability Project (Microformats mentioned)

2008-02-01 Thread Manu Sporny
through the uF process or create an RDFa vocabulary. I'll let this list know when I have gotten a reply from them. -- manu -- Manu Sporny President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Intro to the Semantic Web in 6 minutes (video) http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2007/12/26/semantic-web-intro

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-03 Thread Manu Sporny
Alf Eaton wrote: I was looking at using haudio today, but stumbled on the 'contributor' field: is there a reason it's 'contributor' rather than 'creator', even for the main creator (artist, in music) of the piece of audio? We decided to not use creator because it would not be the proper

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-04 Thread Manu Sporny
Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Manu Sporny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes If only one contributor is listed, it is assumed that he/she/it is also the creator of the hAudio. If multiple contributors are listed, it is assumed that the first contributor is the creator, and all

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-04 Thread Manu Sporny
Andy Mabbett wrote: It seems strange that the microformat does not distinguish between the main contributor and others. It does - you list the main contributor first, if you care about that sort of thing. Otherwise, you can list them in any order. Both the Beatles and Geoff Emerick

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-04 Thread Manu Sporny
Alf Eaton wrote: It would work, but so would a number of very complicated things. My needs are essentially very simple: artistPrimal Scream/artist - albumScreamadelica/album so span class=creatorPrimal Scream/span - span class=albumScreamadelica/span Why doesn't the following work for

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-04 Thread Manu Sporny
Alf Eaton wrote: How about this: * All contributors played a role in the creation of the audio. * If there's one or more creators, those entities played a primary role. We looked at that approach, and found that we didn't have the examples to back up the argument that we should make the

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-04 Thread Manu Sporny
Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Manu Sporny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Why doesn't the following work for you, then? div class=haudio span class=contributorPrimal Scream/span - span class=albumScreamadelica/span /div Per the hAudio spec, you have just marked up

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-05 Thread Manu Sporny
Alf Eaton wrote: The example above is valid hAudio markup - is your issue with the word contributor instead of creator? Basically, yes :-) And it's not a huge issue, I was just wondering if there was justification for it being that way - which there is, it seems. We're also tracking this

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-06 Thread Manu Sporny
Robert O'Rourke wrote: Ah yes, so would you say 'performer', 'creator' and 'composer' are roles and not different to being a contributor? Yes, that is why 'contributor' was picked, rather than 'performer', 'creator', or 'composer'. :) It would be useful to have a more blanket term for

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-06 Thread Manu Sporny
Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Manu Sporny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes It would be useful to have a more blanket term for instances where one person has multiple roles of that kind. You can always specify multiple 'role's in hCard to state that the person had more than

Re: [uf-discuss] Major change to microformat specs without prior discussion or notification

2008-02-07 Thread Manu Sporny
Thom Shannon wrote: perhaps there was prior discussion and agreement that was just a long time ago? Have you searched the archives or asked Tantek directly? Here's the IRC log regarding the change to the wiki: http://rbach.priv.at/Microformats/IRC/2008-02-07#T010220 I agree with the change -

[uf-discuss] Unjust banning of Andy Mabbett

2008-03-08 Thread Manu Sporny
% of contributions benjamin west - 107 posts - 0.91% of contributions Here are the top-10 contributors to the microformats-new mailing list: manu sporny - 298 posts - 19.13% of contributions martin mcevoy - 238 posts - 15.28% of contributions andy mabbett - 182 posts - 11.68

Re: [uf-discuss] Unjust banning of Andy Mabbett

2008-03-08 Thread Manu Sporny
in the statement above conveys. The link to the Wikipedia ban is helpful, though. It is what I would have expected to see prior to Andy's 18 month ban. -- manu -- Manu Sporny President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: RDFa Basics in 8 minutes (video) http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/01/07/rdfa-basics

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: Unjust banning of Andy Mabbett

2008-03-11 Thread Manu Sporny
on those things and the next time something like this happens, we won't have to re-hash this discussion. -- manu [1]http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2008-March/011713.html [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Pigsonthewing -- Manu Sporny

[uf-discuss] Request for Microformats.org MediaWiki SQL data

2008-03-11 Thread Manu Sporny
mailing list contributors. 2. It would be good to have an automatic process that could detect and log wiki edit wars, thus reducing the load on the admins and the rest of the community. -- manu -- Manu Sporny President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: RDFa Basics (video) http

[uf-discuss] Fuzzbot - An embedded semantic data viewer

2008-04-07 Thread Manu Sporny
Fuzzbot is designed to detect RDFa and other semantic data formats and display them to the person browsing. RDFa is a way to embed machine-readable data into web pages, which helps computers help you interact with web pages in a smarter way. For example, Fuzzbot can show you information about

[uf-discuss] Digg Rolls Out DataPortability Enhancements

2008-05-01 Thread Manu Sporny
Surprised the semantic story du jour hasn't been posted to this list yet. Congrats to the XFN, and hCard folks :) http://blog.digg.com/?p=120 PS: Steve Williams is a good guy - he really does care about this stuff. Digg

Re: [uf-discuss] My inactivity

2008-05-07 Thread Manu Sporny
-- Manu Sporny President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Dynamic Spectrum Auctions and Digital Marketplaces http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/04/24/dynamic-spectrum-auctions/ ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http

[uf-discuss] Practical Web Semantics - Talk at Rackspace

2008-06-01 Thread Manu Sporny
-web-semantics/part2.html Practical Web Semantics Part 3 of 4: RDFa Concepts http://wiki.digitalbazaar.com/talks/practical-web-semantics/part3.html Practical Web Semantics Part 4 of 4: Demos and Questions http://wiki.digitalbazaar.com/talks/practical-web-semantics/part4.html -- manu -- Manu

[uf-discuss] Microformats and RDFa not as far apart as previously thought

2008-06-24 Thread Manu Sporny
-- Manu Sporny President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Blacksburg BarCamp 1.0 http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/05/15/blacksburg-barcamp-10/ ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman

[uf-discuss] Audio/Video RDF Vocabulary Screencasts

2008-07-30 Thread Manu Sporny
Hi uFers, Based on work that was done in this community over a year ago, we've attempted to do a port of hAudio over to the RDFa world. The result is a set of 4 vocabularies for media, audio, video and commerce. We used a number of Microformats principles when porting the vocabularies and

[uf-discuss] Mozilla Labs Aurora mock-up depends on RDFa/uF-like technology

2008-08-21 Thread Manu Sporny
(bonuses: copious diversity and the liberal agenda) http://www.vimeo.com/1488633 -- manu -- Manu Sporny President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Bitmunk 3.0 Website Launches http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/07/03/bitmunk-3-website-launches

[uf-discuss] HTML5, Microformats and RDFa

2008-08-25 Thread Manu Sporny
There have been several threads discussing Microformats, RDFa and HTML5 that are occurring on the WHATWG mailing list. The discussion relates to whether or not HTML5 should depend on the Microformats community to solve HTML5's semantic markup issues, or if both Microformats and RDFa should be

Re: [uf-discuss] HTML5, Microformats and RDFa

2008-08-28 Thread Manu Sporny
would be appreciated. -- manu -- Manu Sporny President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Bitmunk 3.0 Website Launches http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/07/03/bitmunk-3-website-launches ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss

[uf-discuss] Potential for Microformats.org to work with W3C and RDFa Task Force

2008-08-28 Thread Manu Sporny
-- Manu Sporny President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Bitmunk 3.0 Website Launches http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/07/03/bitmunk-3-website-launches ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman

Re: [uf-discuss] HTML5, Microformats and RDFa

2008-08-28 Thread Manu Sporny
André Luís wrote: Manu, the css based approach is somethin that has come up in discussions about semantics with fellow workers. I believe it does not trash all of the hard work the communities have don so far. I never said the discussions trashed all of our hard work. I said that some of the

Re: [uf-discuss] Potential for Microformats.org to work with W3C and RDFa Task Force

2008-08-29 Thread Manu Sporny
Ben Ward wrote: It will take a couple of weeks to give examples of how this will all work, but I wanted to get feedback from this community before proceeding. We have a fantastic opportunity in front of us now - who in this community thinks that we should work with the W3C on this endeavor?

Re: [uf-discuss] Potential for Microformats.org to work with W3C andRDFa Task Force

2008-08-29 Thread Manu Sporny
Tantek Celik wrote: Completely agreed w all of Ben Ward's points. Even the ones that seem to state that RDFa does not operate in the realm of HTML? The reason I raise this point is that RDFa will be a W3C standard, applicable to XHTML1.1 and XHTML2 by the end of October 2008 (roughly). We're in

Re: [uf-discuss] Potential for Microformats.org to work with W3C and RDFa Task Force

2008-08-29 Thread Manu Sporny
Scott Reynen wrote: That, or we'd compromise RDFa. I can almost guarantee that neither side is going to compromise their set of beliefs. The Microformats community is too hard headed to do so, and the RDFa community has a very long, arduous W3C process to consider when changing anything major

[uf-discuss] HTML5+RDFa discussion on WHATWG involves Microformats

2008-08-29 Thread Manu Sporny
Samuel Santos has started blogging about the HTML5 + RDFa/Microformats discussion that we've been having in WHATWG: http://www.samaxes.com/2008/08/29/the-semantic-web-and-rdfa/ -- manu ___ microformats-discuss mailing list

[uf-discuss] Today, Tomorrow, and Someday Problems

2008-09-04 Thread Manu Sporny
Interesting blog post by Shane McCarron of XHTML2 fame. He has been involved in the standards community since 1985. His name is on just about every major HTML standard to come out of the W3C - if you use HTML 4.01, XHTML1.0, XHTML 1.1, or will use XHTML2 (to name a few), you're using specs that he

Re: [uf-discuss] Today, Tomorrow, and Someday Problems

2008-09-05 Thread Manu Sporny
Martin McEvoy wrote: http://halindrome.blogspot.com/2008/09/why-we-do-what-we-do.html Thanks Manu for an interesting post, I have made some comments ;-) I am a bit worried about Shane's other post Shane wrote: Unlike microformats, the idiom for annotating your content does not conflict

Re: [uf-discuss] Today, Tomorrow, and Someday Problems

2008-09-05 Thread Manu Sporny
Tantek Celik wrote: eventually decided that it was time that someone started to experiment with the broad semantic HTML *today* work being done by modern web designers, solving today's real world web problems, with shared vocabularies based on existing standards. I met up with Kevin Marks who

Re: [uf-discuss] How about adding aRecipe, an RDFa serialization of hRecipe?

2008-10-09 Thread Manu Sporny
Thomas Loertsch wrote: I'm not sure that an RDFa serialization is something that needs endorsement or hosting by microformats.org. Once hRecipe is formalised, RDF/RDFa-based work that uses the hRecipe vocabulary needs no input from microformats.org. The syntax for the RDFa is derived simply

Re: [uf-discuss] Announcing Oomph: A Microformats Toolkit

2008-10-22 Thread Manu Sporny
/ -- Manu Sporny President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: POSIX Threads Kill: Scaling Past 100K Concurrent Web Requests http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/09/30/scaling-webservices-part-1 blog: Fibers are the Future: Scaling Past 100K Concurrent Web Requests http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/10/21

Re: [uf-discuss] hProduct draft now available

2008-12-16 Thread Manu Sporny
://microformats.org/wiki/audio-info-examples -- Manu Sporny President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: POSIX Threads Don't Scale Past 100K Concurrent Web Requests http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/09/30/scaling-webservices-part-1 blog: Fibers are the Future: Scaling Past 100K Concurrent Requests

Re: [uf-discuss] Bioformats - microformats for biology

2009-01-24 Thread Manu Sporny
to join and let them decide if this community is the best avenue forward. We shouldn't assume what the interests of this community are - this mailing list has over 1,000 readers and all you really need is 2-3 highly motivated individuals to push some of these initiatives forward. -- manu -- Manu

Re: [uf-discuss] Bioformats - microformats for biology

2009-01-24 Thread Manu Sporny
. The discussion may come to nothing, but let's give it a chance before shutting it down prematurely. -- manu [1] https://www.23andme.com/about/ [1] http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/SNPedia -- Manu Sporny President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Bitmunk 3.1 Website Launch http

[uf-discuss] Google announces Microformats/RDFa support!

2009-05-12 Thread Manu Sporny
/Public/public-rdfa/2009May/0011.html Congrats to everyone in the community and everyone that has helped create a Microformat! -- manu -- Manu Sporny President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: A Collaborative Distribution Model for Music http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2009/04/04/collaborative-music

Re: [uf-discuss] added hReview-aggregate and rel-author as drafts, archived a few others, uf2 for new ufs

2012-08-03 Thread Manu Sporny
and albums with hAudio markup - why is that not enough? -- manu -- Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny) Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Which is better - RDFa Lite or Microdata? http://manu.sporny.org/2012/mythical-differences