[uf-new] Re: Microformat for Music Downloads

2007-03-22 Thread Manu Sporny
3%: price in credits 3%: performance artist 3%: p2p-based purchase 3%: video sample 3%: web-based purchase link 3%: creators -- manu -- Manu Sporny President/CEO Digital Bazaar, Inc. http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/ ___ microformats-new mailing

[uf-new] Microformats for Music, Video and Images discussion with Firefox folks

2007-03-29 Thread Manu Sporny
: http://microformats.org/wiki/media-info-examples#Video -- manu -- Manu Sporny Digital Bazaar, Inc. http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/ ___ microformats-new mailing list microformats-new@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats

Re: [uf-new] Separating File Content from File Format

2007-04-06 Thread Manu Sporny
one is the better solution for describing file formats? -- manu -- Manu Sporny President/CEO Digital Bazaar, Inc. http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/ ___ microformats-new mailing list microformats-new@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [uf-new] Separating File Content from File Format

2007-04-08 Thread Manu Sporny
Charles, Scott, Does the fact that we are having a discussion on file format instead of somebody being able to point to a Microformats wiki page and state It's been discussed before, and here's the link indicate that we need a new page for exploratory discussion? If so, I can create one and we

[uf-new] Suggestion for collections (audio, video, images)

2007-04-12 Thread Manu Sporny
Has the concept of implicit collections and uF inheritance come up on this discussion list yet? Here is the problem that we will be grappling with in the next week or two: Grouping collections of audio together is a common practice. The most prominent examples are: music podcasts and audio

[uf-new] First draft of hAudio proposal

2007-05-01 Thread Manu Sporny
We need feedback on the hAudio Microformat proposal. http://microformats.org/wiki/audio-info-proposal All examples, formats and brainstorming can be found here: http://microformats.org/wiki/audio-info-examples http://microformats.org/wiki/audio-info-formats

Re: [uf-new] Namespacing in hAudio (Was: First draft of hAudio proposal)

2007-05-02 Thread Manu Sporny
Frances Berriman wrote: As a brief aside, if there's a general uneasiness about a proposed solution (in this case, the groupings) I think it's a good point to slow down a bit and rework the problem until a happy resolution can be found, rather than rushing to a draft regardless. I think it

Re: [uf-new] First draft of hAudio proposal

2007-05-02 Thread Manu Sporny
Martin McEvoy wrote: Manu first I would like to say that I understand what you are trying to do with the . my example would be class=collection the parent or group, class=collection.Track_1 is my child or item, class=collection.Track_2 is another child or item, It simpler and works but I

Re: [uf-new] First draft of hAudio proposal

2007-05-02 Thread Manu Sporny
Frances Berriman wrote: I like this though. Again, looking at this newly - why isn't audio being used as a subclass of media? The above example using collections could just as easily be talking about a collection of photographs, for example. I saw a quick flash of a mention about media

Re: [uf-new] First attempt at hAudio proposal

2007-05-02 Thread Manu Sporny
Frances Berriman wrote: Frances Berriman wrote: This may have been done and if so, does this research exist on the wiki at the moment? If it's been tried, and it doesn't work, I think I and others would benefit from seeing the attempts. We already discussed this a month ago:

Re: [uf-new] First attempt at hAudio proposal

2007-05-02 Thread Manu Sporny
Scott Reynen wrote: Can this be solved by extending an existing format? Maybe... but every attempt at doing so has been shot down to date. Read the previous threads. Please propose a solution if you think differently. The last message in those threads begins with hAtom as a transport for

Re: [uf-new] First draft of hAudio proposal

2007-05-02 Thread Manu Sporny
Scott Reynen wrote: As the analysis shows - we need a solution that can do both sparse and non-sparse grouping. All of the non-name-space-based solutions proposed thus far do not support sparse grouping. Can you point out some actual examples of what you're calling sparse? Definition of

Re: [uf-new] Re: hAtom is not a silver bullet

2007-05-03 Thread Manu Sporny
David Janes wrote: However, your characterization of hAtom as having a syndication background / being some sort of syndication format is wrong I'm sure I am being dense... but I thought Atom was all about syndication? Perhaps we have different definitions of what syndication means? S: (n)

Re: [uf-new] First attempt at hAudio proposal

2007-05-07 Thread Manu Sporny
Ben Wiley Sittler wrote: actually i think that should be one of: abbr class=duration title=P210S (210 seconds, 8601) or Ben, Your suggestion to use the ISO-8601 duration format has received favorable feedback. We should provide a very simple markup at first, providing only the bare essentials

[uf-new] Second attempt at hAudio proposal

2007-05-07 Thread Manu Sporny
The newest proposal of hAudio (v0.3) is available: http://microformats.org/wiki/audio-info-proposal Here are the changes based on input from the community: - title - work-title Fixed a typo on the page. There has been one

[uf-new] An argument against 'fn' in hAudio (was: Second attempt at hAudio proposal)

2007-05-08 Thread Manu Sporny
Manu Sporny wrote: - The use of 'fn' instead of 'work-title'. It has been proposed that 'fn' or 'n' be used instead of 'work-title', or 'title'. What follows is an argument against using 'fn' and 'n' for hAudio. Assumptions: - It is important that we choose the generic names that span all

Re: [uf-new] An argument against 'fn' in hAudio

2007-05-08 Thread Manu Sporny
Brian Suda wrote: None of this applies to hAudio - and we don't want Microformat implementors confusing how to use 'fn' in hAudio and how to use 'fn' in hCard. --- these are two very different things. This is a non-issue. hCard parsers do onething, and you can defined Media parsers to do

Re: fn is formatted name (was Re: [uf-new] An argument against 'fn' in hAudio)

2007-05-08 Thread Manu Sporny
Tantek Çelik wrote: On 5/8/07 8:36 AM, Manu Sporny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fn is short for 'full-name' Not quite. In short, fn is short for formatted name. and is grounded in the VCARD/hCard format. Yes, and per http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt section 3.1.1: the formatted text

[uf-new] renaming work-title to fn in hAudio (was: An argument against 'fn' in hAudio)

2007-05-08 Thread Manu Sporny
Scott's argument was the final nail in the 'work-title' coffin. Work title has been changed to 'fn' and is reflected on the wiki: http://microformats.org/wiki/audio-info-proposal#Schema http://microformats.org/wiki/audio-info-proposal#Formatted_Name -- manu

Re: [uf-new] hAudio 'acquire' re-naming (Microformats should use nouns for properties)

2007-05-09 Thread Manu Sporny
Andy Mabbett wrote: I can foresee problems. Suppose a publisher links to a third-party site, offering an audio track as a free sample (or vice versa). Later, that latter site decides to start charging for the track - how would the publisher know that their site is no longer correct?

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

2007-05-10 Thread Manu Sporny
Guy Fraser wrote: Many microforamts state that they are likely to be released under a royalty free patent - it's *really* vital to note that from a legal standpoint there are some absolute show-stopper problems with this: 1. Intent does not guarantee what will happen - intent can change over

Re: [uf-new] hAudio Test

2007-05-11 Thread Manu Sporny
Scott Reynen wrote: On May 10, 2007, at 6:57 PM, Martin McEvoy wrote: It would be nice if someone could say they get what I am trying to do or that it doesn't make sense so comments and criticism are welcome. http://weborganics.co.uk/haudio I agree with most of Scott's feedback. In

[uf-new] Revisiting grouping problem solution proposal: hset

2007-05-14 Thread Manu Sporny
After collecting even more grouping examples and performing analysis on those examples, it is quite evident that we need to support ordered, unordered, sparse and non-sparse grouping. There are several options that have been gathered over the past month, listed on the grouping-brainstorming page:

Re: [uf-new] Revisiting grouping problem solution proposal: hset

2007-05-16 Thread Manu Sporny
Martin, to start off - thanks for updating your hAudio examples page... even though you have issues with the proposal. Personally, I feel that the XHTML is much cleaner now and accomplishes all of the goals listed in the grouping-examples page. However, it would be foolish to press ahead if there

Re: [uf-new] Revisiting grouping problem solution proposal: hset

2007-05-17 Thread Manu Sporny
Martin McEvoy wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 14:00 -0400, Manu Sporny wrote: using brief, descriptive class names hset is a brief descriptive class name, isn't it? Yes hSet is descriptive my trouble lies in what comes after, you are asking users to invent their own class after that ie

Re: [uf-new] Revisiting grouping problem solution proposal: hset

2007-05-18 Thread Manu Sporny
Martin McEvoy wrote: I know there is more mark up but it does use simple class names that every one can understand I agree, it does do the same thing. I'd prefer doing something like what you're suggesting. The only problem that would need to be solved is how we support sparse grouping with

Re: [uf-new] Revisiting grouping problem solution proposal: hset

2007-05-19 Thread Manu Sporny
Chris Griego wrote: Before you start on a full-blown proposal, can you create a sample page? Martin McEvoy already has one set up based on a real-world example: http://weborganics.co.uk/haudio There is also the brainstorming page, look at Option #3:

Re: [uf-new] Revisiting grouping problem solution proposal: hset

2007-05-22 Thread Manu Sporny
Chris Griego wrote: With my proposal for hSet: h1span id=internal-event class=hset vcalendarInternal/span and span id=with-client-event class=hset vcalendarWith-Client/span Events/h1 ol li class=with-client-event veventspan class=summaryFOO Sales Pitch/span [...]/li li

Re: [uf-new] Revisiting grouping problem solution proposal: hset

2007-05-23 Thread Manu Sporny
Colin Barrett wrote: On May 22, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Manu Sporny wrote: using a character that is requires escaping when writing CSS rules etc.) Why would we write CSS rules for hset? For many content authors, one of the main advantages of having data in a microformat is to easily style

Re: [uf-new] Revisiting grouping problem solution proposal: hset

2007-05-24 Thread Manu Sporny
We need more feedback from the community regarding hset. A small poll has been posted on the various issues surrounding hset. If you can, please note your preference as to how we handle the hset problem: 1. Please go to the following URL: http://www.advancedsurvey.com/ 2. Enter the Survey Number

[uf-new] hSet Survey - Current Results

2007-05-30 Thread Manu Sporny
Below are the current results related to the hSet survey. If you can, please note your preference as to how we handle the hset problem: 1. Please go to the following URL: http://www.advancedsurvey.com/ 2. Enter the Survey Number under the Enter Survey # field. The number is: 52427 Here are

Re: [uf-new] hSet Survey - Current Results

2007-05-30 Thread Manu Sporny
James Craig wrote: Although I'm in favor or simple, hierarchical classnames, I don't think the main opposition to this has to do with its complexity, and if so, the argument certainly shouldn't be whittled down to a multiple-choice question that is this simple. It's leading. Perhaps the same

Re: [uf-new] hAudio - audio-album and audio-podcast

2007-05-31 Thread Manu Sporny
Brian Suda wrote: --- firstly, microformats are not a how should we do this it is more of a how are things already being done? Option #2 is how it is already being done. The options were more about if we wanted to generalize the scope of the hAudio Microformat. It was to see if anybody had a

Re: [uf-new] hAudio - audio-album and audio-podcast

2007-05-31 Thread Manu Sporny
Martin McEvoy wrote: Your use of audio-album could cause problems later in the semantic meaning, iTunes has many celebrity playlists, which are not actually ALBUMS, but are a collection of related songs. The term podcast seems very 2005, in 4 years will we still use 'podcats' maybe, maybe not?

Re: [uf-new] hAudio - audio-album and audio-podcast

2007-06-01 Thread Manu Sporny
Brian Suda wrote: I just think there was either, no interest in developing the format, or too many what if we add this happened and it never moved forward. It tends to be more of the latter when it comes to this list :) - lots of good ideas... in fact, too many to see clearly, sometimes. That

Re: [uf-new] hAudio - audio-album and audio-podcast

2007-06-01 Thread Manu Sporny
Joe Andrieu wrote: We need examples of playlists to support your playlist argument... which we don't have. Sure we do. There are a bunch on the examples page, including the FIQL service I mentioned in my email. Are we looking at the same examples page?

Re: [uf-new] Sound Optimization for haudio

2007-06-03 Thread Manu Sporny
Martin McEvoy wrote: div class=haudio h1 class=vcard span class=contributor orgThe Beatles/span - span class=fnThe White Album/span/h1 div class=haudio vcard h2 class=fnDisc: 1/h2 ol li class=soundBack in the U.S.S.R. - span

Re: [uf-new] hAudio - audio-album and audio-podcast

2007-06-05 Thread Manu Sporny
Scott Reynen wrote: The alternative to the above that I thought you were going for was something like this: halbum playlist/XOXO haudio haudio haudio haudio That makes sense to me. Ah crap... I seem to have caused confusion with my ramblings.

Re: [uf-new] hAudio - audio-album and audio-podcast

2007-06-05 Thread Manu Sporny
Joe Andrieu wrote: It seems that halbum means we no longer requires this grouping abstraction. That is correct - but this has only come about in the last couple of days. I usually wait for some sort of concensus before updating the wiki. What is your definition for a playlist? I think we

Re: [uf-new] hAudio - audio-album and audio-podcast

2007-06-05 Thread Manu Sporny
Martin McEvoy wrote: hmm problem here, what if our album has multiple content types not all albums are just playable music yes? I think what both Scott and Joe are referring to are audio albums. We aren't talking about video albums or multimedia albums. We should concentrate on solving the

Re: [uf-new] hAudio - audio-album and audio-podcast

2007-06-05 Thread Manu Sporny
Colin Barrett wrote: On Jun 5, 2007, at 2:20 PM, Scott Reynen wrote: The label haudio appears to be describing two distinct concepts here (1: album information, 2: individual track information), which I find confusing. That these two concepts share some properties, but that doesn't make

Re: [uf-new] hAudio - audio-album and audio-podcast

2007-06-05 Thread Manu Sporny
Scott Reynen wrote: On Jun 5, 2007, at 4:00 PM, Colin Barrett wrote: A classical recording is a good example -- unlike popular music, the tracks on the album are often merely segments of a larger whole, f.e. Beethoven's Fifth is comprised of four movements. All of the same information that

Re: [uf-new] hAudio - audio-album and audio-podcast

2007-06-05 Thread Manu Sporny
Brian Suda wrote: --- now we are spiraling back to ideas of what people WANT rather than model what is being published. I agree - we should keep our focus on solving demonstrated needs as outlined by the audio-info-examples exploratory discussion. Right now, we are talking about audio albums.

Re: [uf-new] hAudio - audio-album and audio-podcast

2007-06-06 Thread Manu Sporny
Joe Andrieu wrote: Manu Sporny wrote: Brian Suda wrote: --- now we are spiraling back to ideas of what people WANT rather than model what is being published. I agree - we should keep our focus on solving demonstrated needs as outlined by the audio-info-examples exploratory discussion

Re: [uf-new] hAudio - audio-album and audio-podcast

2007-06-06 Thread Manu Sporny
Scott Reynen wrote: halbum is the grouping Microformat for audio albums specifically - it can aggregate a number of haudio recordings together. halbum is the grouping of albums? I'm guessing this is a miscommunication, as I've seen no previous discussion of groups of albums. Please

Re: [uf-new] hAudio - audio-album and audio-podcast

2007-06-06 Thread Manu Sporny
Scott Reynen wrote: Nobody seems to have raised any issues related to existing elements in the haudio draft in several weeks. I don't know how you can possibly think that. Multiple people have suggested changing the wiki entry in just the last few days, and you've said you don't think it

Re: [uf-new] hAudio - audio-album and audio-podcast

2007-06-07 Thread Manu Sporny
Joe Andrieu wrote: There seemed to be partial agreement that hAudio means the individual audio recording, that being the simplest case to solve, although I agree with the contradiction in the above problem statements. The answer for multiple audio recordings on a page is to have multiple

Re: [uf-new] img alt content

2007-07-09 Thread Manu Sporny
Derrick Lyndon Pallas wrote: Actually, I can probably be of help here, having written the Alexa Image Search indexer. While I can't divulge too much about what goes into building the index, I'll see if I can find some time to take a look at the usage of img/@alt inside hcard/fn some time this

Re: [uf-new] img alt content statistics

2007-07-14 Thread Manu Sporny
Manu Sporny wrote: As Scott has pointed out, the only way to know this is to start gathering real data. I am in the process of writing an image crawler (which will hopefully be done by tonight) to gather these statistics. The first run of the img tag analysis has been completed, here

Re: [uf-new] img alt content statistics

2007-07-14 Thread Manu Sporny
Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Manu Sporny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The percentages below are the percentages of img tags that contained non-empty attributes: src:99% height: 66% width: 66% alt:41% title: 5% id: 4% In general, only 41% of 'img

[uf-new] Use of img in rel-* (with analyzed data)

2007-07-15 Thread Manu Sporny
I'm starting a new thread as the *img alt content* discussion seems to be getting unfocused. Please familiarize yourself with the following thread, as this discussion is a more focused continuation of it: http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-new/2007-July/000590.html All of the

Re: [uf-new] hMedia?

2007-07-19 Thread Manu Sporny
Regine Heidorn wrote: Just a short thought, maybe it doesn't make sense. What about using hReview for all kind of media with a subcategory hMedia and a specification of the media like audio, movie, website etc.? I mean: hAudio anyway is related to hReview, which is logical. So why not

[uf-new] Microformats archival of non-HTML files? (was: Receipt microformat)

2007-07-23 Thread Manu Sporny
Storset, Leif wrote: Manu Sporny wrote: I'm assuming that Leif will take lead on this and post the first set of examples (let me know if this is not the case, Leif). I have now sent all my collected samples to Rob Manson for upload. The receipt-examples collection process raises

Re: [uf-new] Leading by example (was: Standards bodies)

2007-07-28 Thread Manu Sporny
Brian, you have made some very valid points, I'm not disputing most of what you have said. I feel that this discussion is getting a bit off-track. From your various e-mails, you seem to be making the following points (I'm paraphrasing, there are nuances, but I'm attempting to summarize): 1. We

[uf-new] hAudio issues page updated

2007-08-01 Thread Manu Sporny
The hAudio issues page has been updated with the following: * Redundant property issues * Graphic buttons and 'rel-sample', 'rel-enclosure', and 'rel-payment Please take a look at the page if you were involved in the discussions on hAudio. Make additions to the page if you have any outstanding

[uf-new] hAudio ISSUE #1: image-summary is redundant

2007-08-05 Thread Manu Sporny
The full issue description can be found on the audio-info-issues page: http://microformats.org/wiki/audio-info-issues#image-summary_Property hAudio ISSUE #1: image-summary - This is a small graphic image that summarizes the audio piece. There are several other formats that already use the PHOTO

Re: [uf-new] hAudio ISSUE #3: published-date is redundant

2007-08-08 Thread Manu Sporny
Brian Suda wrote: If you look at the wiki page which lists our classes, http://microformats.org/wiki/classes you will see that we have several ways of specifying a date hCard uses REV, which is the REVISION date hCalendar uses LAST-MODIFIED, the time the calendar was last changes hAtom uses

Re: [uf-new] hAlbum Microformat brainstorming and proposal pages created

2007-08-08 Thread Manu Sporny
Brian Suda wrote: On 8/6/07, Manu Sporny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The new pages can be found here... they are rough, but should outline what we're planning on discussing. hAlbum borrows very heavily from hAudio: --- with the exception of TRACKS an Album has all the identical properties

Re: [uf-new] Songbird/POTI requirements for hAudio

2007-08-08 Thread Manu Sporny
Scott Reynen wrote: If we can't deliver on that as a community - they won't have much interest in implementing Microformats in Songbird. We *can* deliver on that, but that doesn't mean we *should*. Support by any specific tool should always be a lower priority than covering what people are

Re: [uf-new] hAudio ISSUE #3: published-date is redundant

2007-08-14 Thread Manu Sporny
Tantek Çelik wrote: I agree it should use the ISO date-time pattern every other date format is using. So, we've got 3 votes for PUBLISHED using date-time pattern, none opposed. I'd like some others to weigh in before we resolve this. A simple AGREE/+1 would suffice, or DISAGREE with logical

Re: [uf-new] hAlbum Track Property

2007-08-14 Thread Manu Sporny
Martin McEvoy wrote: Am I correct in thinking that the proposed hAlbum track Property http://microformats.org/wiki/audio-album-proposal#Track Is redundant as hAudio is a track? That's a question we've been wrestling with for some time, Martin. Here's why I'm in support of TRACK: - TRACK

Re: [uf-new] Analyzed collected receipt samples

2007-08-17 Thread Manu Sporny
Scott Reynen wrote: On Aug 16, 2007, at 9:01 PM, Clay Newton wrote: There is significant overlap in the data elements for each of these records. It would seem to me that one microformat could support the sum of these phases. Thoughts? Start simple. I agree... we shouldn't try to merge

[uf-new] hAudio ISSUE #4: Display values for rel-patterns

2007-08-17 Thread Manu Sporny
hAudio ISSUE #4: open issue! http://microformats.org/wiki/audio-info-issues#Problem:_Display_properties_of_rel-patterns The following markup summarizes this problem: a rel=purchase href=/buy/song/3742827384 title=Buy The Song img src=/images/buy_song.png alt=Buy Song Image / /a

[uf-new] Microformalyze 0.7 released - New Microformat analysis tool

2007-08-29 Thread Manu Sporny
Introduction Microformalyze speeds the Microformat examples collection and analysis process. One of the first steps of the Microformat creation process is example gathering and website analysis. This step requires the Microformat creators to analyze tens if not hundreds of websites.

[uf-new] hAudio case study

2007-09-07 Thread Manu Sporny
Here's some weekend reading for those that are interested. :) We've documented our experience with the Microformats community, the W3C RDFa task force, the Microformat creation process, and the current status of hAudio in a case study: http://wiki.digitalbazaar.com/en/haudio-case-study I'd be

Re: [uf-new] hAudio case study

2007-09-08 Thread Manu Sporny
Tantek Çelik wrote: While I may not necessarily agree with all the issues/points you raise, I want to thank you for your frank feedback, and I'm hoping that open documentation and resolution of such issues itself addresses at least some of your issues (if not most or all). This is why we

Re: [uf-new] hAudio ISSUE #8: hAlbum is redundant

2007-09-09 Thread Manu Sporny
Martin McEvoy wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 16:20 -0400, Manu Sporny wrote: Most of hAlbum's properties overlap with hAudio. In fact, the only two properties that do not overlap with hAudio are 'album-title' and 'track'. Does hAudio then describe a collection of hAudio's ? If we make

Re: [uf-new] hAudio ISSUE #8: hAlbum is redundant

2007-09-09 Thread Manu Sporny
Andy Mabbett wrote: # If both 'album-title' and 'audio-title' is specified, then the hAudio is a song that is part of an album. I think those names are confusing; they should be: albunm-title + track-title or simply: album + track Of the two, I'd

[uf-new] Launching the hVideo exploratory discussion!

2007-09-10 Thread Manu Sporny
The video-info exploratory discussion has been created on the wiki. There are currently 22 examples that have been analyzed so far: http://microformats.org/wiki/video-info-examples Here are the property leaders with the current set of data: # title: 95.65% # comments: 86.96% # image summary:

Re: [uf-new] Launching the hVideo exploratory discussion!

2007-09-11 Thread Manu Sporny
Mary Hodder wrote: Is the video microformat use case one that is about video hosters or about what users do, or both? Both... we're going for general video metadata markup. :) At Dabble, as we take in metadata from both sources, we see users and hosters publishing titles, thumbnail (users

Re: [uf-new] The Process (was: hAudio case study)

2007-09-11 Thread Manu Sporny
Frances Berriman wrote: I imagine it will be valuable as a primer for those interested in creating some type of microformat (or wondering if microformats are indeed for them) and maybe how the process works. Good, as that is one of the goals of the document :) Talking of... I note that one

[uf-new] video-info-examples page clarifications

2007-09-11 Thread Manu Sporny
This is a partial continuation of the following thread: http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-new/2007-September/000823.html I wanted to make some clarifications about the video-info-examples page before we go down a rabbit hole. Or rather... this is an attempt not to go down a

Re: [uf-new] The Process

2007-09-12 Thread Manu Sporny
Frances Berriman wrote: On 12/09/2007, Manu Sporny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we should call it what it is: The Accepted Limitations of Microformats Yeah, that would work. I have created the wiki page, everyone please feel free to note issues and add other sections on the page: http

Re: [uf-new] hAudio ISSUE #8: hAlbum is redundant

2007-09-12 Thread Manu Sporny
Michael Smethurst wrote: Can I suggest release instead of album? It just captures albums, singles, eps better... Your idea has been noted on the wiki, Michael: http://microformats.org/wiki/audio-info-issues#album-title_Property I'm somewhat opposed to changing 'release' to 'album-title' at

Re: [uf-new] video-info-examples page clarifications

2007-09-12 Thread Manu Sporny
Mary Hodder wrote: Appreciate the clarifications. Very helpful. I will get one of my engineers to run some queries, to see what percentages we have across 27 mil videos and then post them here and in the wiki. Make sure to ask them to not duplicate data sources. Don't analyze 400 URLs from

Re: [uf-new] hAudio ISSUE #8: hAlbum is redundant

2007-09-12 Thread Manu Sporny
Martin McEvoy wrote: I vote we use something more generic and call audio-title, album-title or in fact any media related title just media-title, you can re-use it for albums, podcasts, toplists, downloads, charts, video, images. Martin, If we do that, we will lose the ability to differentiate

Re: [uf-new] hAudio ISSUE #8: hAlbum is redundant

2007-09-13 Thread Manu Sporny
Scott Reynen wrote: If we do that, we will lose the ability to differentiate between an album, podcast, toplist, download, and chart. Can you explain a bit more what exactly we gain with that ability, in terms of practical capabilities? Here is the premise: It is important to be able to

Re: [uf-new] hAudio ISSUE #8: hAlbum is redundant

2007-09-28 Thread Manu Sporny
Martin McEvoy wrote: ...listening to div class=haudio div class=item span class=media-titleMay the Rain/span /div found on span class=haudio-titlePaper Tigers/span /div by... *Item* works here as a root class on its own and is used as a semantic finger pointing out the

[uf-new] hAudio/table incompatibility (was: hAudio v0.7 released)

2007-10-04 Thread Manu Sporny
Julian Stahnke wrote: I’d like to point out that the currently proposed spec (http://microformats.org/wiki/audio-info-proposal#Complete_Album_Examplet) of nesting an haudio element in a track element to mark up albums is incompatible with using tables for the track listings. In a table, you

Re: [uf-new] hAudio/table incompatibility

2007-10-04 Thread Manu Sporny
Scott Reynen wrote: The only reason I mention that order is important in the attribute list is because we might have 'track hvideo' in the future for DVD chapters, television episodes or other track-like items. I'm not sure l understand that reason. If you're saying that a class=track

Re: [uf-new] Measurement brainstorming

2007-10-05 Thread Manu Sporny
Chris Newell wrote: Note that I said or whatever is [the] standard for representing square-metres. I'm not sure there is a standard for representing the superscripts used within SI units using plain text. We may have to specify something. These are all good discussions, but I'm afraid

Re: [uf-new] Measurement brainstorming

2007-10-05 Thread Manu Sporny
Chris Newell wrote: The Strawman includes the following new concepts: - The proposal only uses abbr to avoid the but the parsers are going to be so complicated! argument. Let's focus on what we can represent using abbr - what we can support in span will naturally come out of that

Re: [uf-new] hAudio/table incompatibility

2007-10-05 Thread Manu Sporny
Martin McEvoy wrote: On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 09:44 +0100, Julian Stahnke wrote: So this simpler proposal makes perfect sense to me. at least someone on the list Is starting to make sense. Criticize the ideas, not the people, please. :) I have been wrestling with the current proposal of

Re: [uf-new] hAudio/table incompatibility

2007-10-06 Thread Manu Sporny
Julian Stahnke wrote: If you want to push your proposal above, you will have to make the following arguments: 1. Why Ambiguity is not an issue for TRACK. 2. Why we should introduce a new property called TRACK-TITLE. 3. Why we should require CONTRIBUTOR to be marked up via a VCARD. About

[uf-new] hAudio position and description properties

2007-10-06 Thread Manu Sporny
Most of the day today was spent re-analyzing all of the music service and podcast websites in audio-info-examples using Microformalyze. The raw analysis data is available here: http://microformats.org/wiki/audio-info-examples#Microformalyze_Data_Files The analysis is available here:

[uf-new] Closing several hAudio issues

2007-10-08 Thread Manu Sporny
There are several hAudio issues that seem to have been resolved in the past several weeks that should be marked as Resolved. PROPOSAL: We close the following issues as each problem seems to have been addressed. hAudio ISSUE #1: image-summary Property is redundant - PHOTO has been used

Re: [uf-new] Closing several hAudio issues

2007-10-08 Thread Manu Sporny
Julian Stahnke wrote: Martin McEvoy wrote: I think the proposition should simply say * hAudio MAY have zero or more tracks * Track titles MAY be defined by using the class name *audio-title* it is recommended that a hAudio track SHOULD have an audio-title *

[uf-new] hAudio: audio-title/album-title vs. recording/album

2007-10-08 Thread Manu Sporny
One of the last remaining (and most pedantic) issues for hAudio is the naming of the audio-title and album-title properties. This includes the following issues (we could close them all if we can finally decide on these two names): hAudio ISSUE #2: audio-title Property

Re: [uf-new] hAudio: audio-title/album-title vs. recording/album

2007-10-12 Thread Manu Sporny
Scott Reynen wrote: On Oct 12, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Manu Sporny wrote: If we were to use FN, it would be impossible to distinguish between an album (an concept that can contain more than one hAudio) and a song/speech (an individual hAudio). I don't think that's true. hCard uses FN for two

Re: [uf-new] item property (was: hAudio: audio-title/album-title vs. recording/album)

2007-10-14 Thread Manu Sporny
Julian Stahnke wrote: A container for another hAudio item. Used in conjunction with album-title. [snip] * hAudio MAY have one or more tracks, but MUST have album-title defined. If album-title is not defined, track cannot be defined. Sorry to be jumping in late here, but I'm

[uf-new] hAudio proposal: ITEM/TRACK

2007-10-14 Thread Manu Sporny
The problem: We need some sort of container to hold track/song information in an hAudio album. The contents of this container will be another hAudio chunk or text (which will be the FN of an hAudio object). There are two proposals that are on the table right now. The end result and semantics for

Re: [uf-new] item property (was: hAudio: audio-title/album-title vs. recording/album)

2007-10-14 Thread Manu Sporny
Justin Maxwell wrote: and i thought i was helping define a microformat, not practicing my skill in public debate. so, we're even. :) You must be new here. This is the New Microformats Community. We don't actually create Microformats, instead we endlessly debate the meaning of words and their

Re: [uf-new] item property (was: hAudio: audio-title/album-title vs. recording/album)

2007-10-15 Thread Manu Sporny
Michael Smethurst wrote: In these cases track would be plain wrong Also nested items/haudios would allow you to mark up classical works/opera (as opposed to perfomances/recordings). In the case of an opera: Haudio - opera haudio - act haudio - scene haudio - aria

Re: [uf-new] hAudio proposal: ITEM/TRACK

2007-10-15 Thread Manu Sporny
Michael Smethurst wrote: 3 quick questions: 1. how would this work for a tracklist for a radio/tv programme. Like this?: span class=haudio span class=fnNagasaki Nightmare/span span class=albumBest Before 1984/span span class=contributorCrass/span /span span class=haudio span

Re: [Audio] Playlists and Albums (was: Re: [uf-new] item property)

2007-10-15 Thread Manu Sporny
Ben Ward wrote: On 15 Oct 2007, at 10:44, Julian Stahnke wrote: album-title is NOT mandatory. It is only mandatory when you're listing one or more TRACKs. Tracks can be grouped by more than just albums. I'd say album-title should never be mandatory Playlists or charts come to my mind, for

Re: [uf-new] hAudio proposal: ITEM/TRACK

2007-10-15 Thread Manu Sporny
Scott Reynen wrote: Not wanting to add to the confusion but would it not be possible to have infinitely nested haudios with neither item or track and use mfo when the markup enforces containment that you don't want to be reflected in the model? As much as I'd like to move forward a general

Re: [uf-new] hAudio duration syntax

2007-10-15 Thread Manu Sporny
Scott Reynen wrote: The complete representation of the expression for duration in the alternative format is as follows: Basic format: PMMDDThhmmss or PDDDThhmmss Extended format: P-MM-DDThh:mm:ss or P-DDDThh:mm:ss That section also includes several references to other

Re: [Audio] Playlists and Albums (was: Re: [uf-new] item property)

2007-10-16 Thread Manu Sporny
Martin McEvoy wrote: The first thing I spotted was that someone seems to have spammed the word track 100's of times all over our model examples and results, making them as far as i can see unusable, Vandalized almost Martin, I wish you had said something before going and doing all that hard

Re: [Audio] Playlists and Albums (was: Re: [uf-new] item property)

2007-10-16 Thread Manu Sporny
Martin McEvoy wrote: Im truthfully appaled that Our Model that we found all our debates on Is wildly inaccurate? It is not. :) I stand by the examples, the analysis and the research performed to date by myself and several others (including you, Martin). I also challenge you to prove its wild

[uf-new] hAudio ITEM/TRACK debate resolution

2007-10-20 Thread Manu Sporny
This e-mail is a proposed resolution to the hAudio ITEM/TRACK debate. The list has seemed to have calmed down a bit, so I have gone back through and attempted to address each post's concerns about using either ITEM or TRACK. The proposed resolution is a mix of Martin, Scott, Andy, Julian, Michael,

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