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

2007-10-15 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 14/10/07 20:01, Manu Sporny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin McEvoy 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 -- manu

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

2007-10-15 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 14/10/07 23:47, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin McEvoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 22:44 +0100, Andy Mabbett wrote: good point! however, people also refer to items as songs, Some tracks are songs, others are not. All

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

2007-10-15 Thread Julian Stahnke
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 example. ___

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

2007-10-15 Thread Michael Smethurst
But it may never be recorded let alone released I might want to mark up a set list for a gig I enjoyed On 15/10/07 10:55, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, October 15, 2007 10:11, Michael Smethurst wrote: Some tracks are songs, others are not. All songs, though, are tracks.

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

2007-10-15 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Mon, October 15, 2007 10:07, Michael Smethurst wrote: I need to mark up performance/set lists for Glastonbury, the Proms etc In these cases track would be plain wrong How so? Also nested items/haudios would allow you to mark up classical works/opera (as opposed to

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

2007-10-15 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 15/10/07 10:50, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, October 15, 2007 10:28, Michael Smethurst wrote: Tracks can be grouped by more than just albums. Examples, please. Playlists [1], tracklists [2], set lists [3], works [4]: [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/playlist/ [2]

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

2007-10-14 Thread David Janes
On 10/13/07, Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/13/07 1:11 PM, Martin McEvoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 20:48 +0100, Andy Mabbett wrote: It's my understanding that item in microformats was intended purely as a delimiter, with the same - empty - semantic

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

2007-10-14 Thread Martin McEvoy
On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 08:50 -0500, David Janes wrote: On 10/13/07, Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/13/07 1:11 PM, Martin McEvoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 20:48 +0100, Andy Mabbett wrote: It's my understanding that item in microformats was intended

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

2007-10-14 Thread David Janes
On 10/14/07, Martin McEvoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes I did notice that you have done a lot of work already to support an item design pattern or submicroformat On the Wiki Item has been tagged as Moribund? discussions on the list over the last few days certainly indicates that an Item

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

2007-10-14 Thread Martin McEvoy
On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 17:42 +0100, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin McEvoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 08:50 -0500, David Janes wrote: Note that a did a moderate amount of work on this last year [1] yes I did notice that you have done a lot of

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

2007-10-14 Thread Justin Maxwell
On Oct 14, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Martin McEvoy 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

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

2007-10-14 Thread Julian Stahnke
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 afraid this poses a

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

2007-10-14 Thread Martin McEvoy
Julian and Justin On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 19:45 +0100, 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

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

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

2007-10-14 Thread Julian Stahnke
Track is familiar and common. I believe I'd even recommended its use at one time. However, it's nothing more than a distortion of meaning through popular usage -- tracks in a vinyl record (similar to the use of patch for electronic musical instrumentation stemming from the days of patch

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

2007-10-14 Thread Justin Maxwell
Thanks for clarifying that -- your follow-up email to Julian helped illustrate usage as well. It seems a bit odd taxonomically (my initial reaction is that an album without a name shouldn't be assigned one for the sake of microformats), but acceptable if it means we're coming closer to a

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

2007-10-14 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Justin Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Track is familiar and common. However, it's nothing more than a distortion of meaning through popular usage -- tracks in a vinyl record (similar to the use of patch for electronic musical instrumentation stemming from the

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

2007-10-14 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Julian Stahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I don’t think you can make album-title mandatory. Unless you can tell me what album Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech is on ;) 'Great Speeches of the 20th Century', issues free with the Guardian newspaper this

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

2007-10-14 Thread David Janes
Just to give some insight into what I was thinking with hItem: div class=haudio span class=fn album contributorCelldweller/span contains span class=item trackspan class=fnSwitchback/span/span and span class=item trackspan class=fnSymbiont/span/span. /div What does this get you? (1) forever

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

2007-10-14 Thread Scott Reynen
On Oct 14, 2007, at 12:45 PM, 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

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

2007-10-14 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Justin Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes my initial reaction is that an album without a name shouldn't be assigned one for the sake of microformats Again: what do publishers do? *Amazon uses a title: http://tinyurl.com/34gfjo *Play.com uses a title:

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

2007-10-14 Thread Justin Maxwell
On Oct 14, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Andy Mabbett wrote: What do you mean by there is no 'track' in data? I thought we created microformats by looking at evidence, not considering personal opinions and supposition about what may be understood at dome unknown point in the future. Hi Andy, and i

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)

2007-10-14 Thread Martin McEvoy
On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 17:03 -0400, Manu Sporny wrote: 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,

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

2007-10-14 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin McEvoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes If people refer to a songs or other recording as a track - as the evidence [1] shows they do - then we should use that. [1] - http://tinyurl.com/yvekd2 http://tinyurl.com/ywg8qu http://tinyurl.com/2kq96z

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

2007-10-14 Thread Martin McEvoy
On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 22:44 +0100, Andy Mabbett wrote: good point! however, people also refer to items as songs, Some tracks are songs, others are not. All songs, though, are tracks. You may find that all songs are NOT Tracks... a busker may sing a song for you on a street corner YOU may

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

2007-10-13 Thread Julian Stahnke
Anyway there is only Me at the moment supporting using *item* instead of a new microformat *track* Nope, I too think item would be better. Maybe, if it is too meaningless, together with haudio à la span class=item haudio. I don’t know enough about item to say if just item is enough, but I

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

2007-10-13 Thread Martin McEvoy
On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 21:31 +0100, Julian Stahnke wrote: Anyway there is only Me at the moment supporting using *item* instead of a new microformat *track* Nope, I too think item would be better. Maybe, if it is too meaningless, together with haudio à la span class=item haudio. I

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

2007-10-13 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 10/13/07 12:48 PM, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin McEvoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 19:47 +0100, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin McEvoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Item is semantically empty, other