Dear all, First, is Tim Gambell in the house? If so, perhaps he can answer this one. The background: In fooling around trying out a microformat (http://microformats.org/about/) for museum objects I came across the work Tim was leading on the "work-of-art" microformat (http://microformats.org/wiki/work-of-art). In many ways (though not all) it seems to hit the spot I was aiming at with my own efforts, and so to avoid duplication and because WoA seemed to have got a lot further than my work I thought it would make sense to pursue that instead. However, everything seems to have gone quiet after April last year, and a thread here http://www.mail-archive.com/microformats-discuss at microformats.org/msg017 63.html seems to suggest that WoA may have been dropped in favour of extending the citation MF. The questions:
* Does anyone know the situation with work-of-art? * Does anyone else have an interest in a microformat for indicating museum objects and capturing a (tiny) subset of information about them? * Any other comments on the idea - perhaps that it's a totally dumb proposition to try to capture museum objects at all like this. I don't think so but you might. * If there was such a format, how would you envisage it being used? Bear in mind that it's not really meant as a medium for rich metadata, but for pretty atomic-level stuff. I see the core purpose as being simply to indicate that this thing is an object in a museum, with its home at a given place on the web. Looking forward to your thoughts, Jeremy Jeremy Ottevanger Web Developer, Museum Systems Team Museum of London Group 46 Eagle Wharf Road London. N1 7ED Tel: 020 7410 2207 Fax: 020 7600 1058 Email: jottevanger at museumoflondon.org.uk www.museumoflondon.org.uk Museum of London is changing; our lower galleries will be closed while they undergo a major new development. Visit www.museumoflondon.org.uk to find out more. London's Burning - explore how the Great Fire of London shaped the city we see today www.museumoflondon.org.uk/londonsburning
