Seems to me like describing the group meta-info (i.e. the group info + its membership info) is something different than describing the threaded conversation that may happen in a group.
-josh On 2/27/06, Eran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've actually been thinking of a similar idea for a project I'm working on. > So far, I've only been interested in membership lists and content (later I > might add group meta data like closed/open, moderated etc.). Here's what I > have so far: > > To show that content X belongs to a group, use rel-directory. The group is a > container just like any other so rel-directory seems like a perfect fit. > To show that person X is a member of this group use rel="member" (you can > also use "owner" or "moderator") > To show that you are a member of group X use rel="group" > > The membership forrmat (I call it xhtml membership format - xmf) leaves > exact semantics of the relationships to the group. Some groups might be > closed - the links must be reciprocated, others might be open - a link from > a user's page is enough to indicate membership. The proper place for XMF > links is the group's main page and the user's XFN page (or a page with > rel="me" to those pages). Hopefully, by "linking" the to XFN network we also > gain access to users' profiles published in hCard so there's no need to > replicate that. > > Eran. > > > ________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Factory Joe > Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 12:56 AM > To: Microformats Discuss > Subject: [uf-discuss] Group Microformat > > > So I was going to go ahead and create a discussion page for this topic on > the wiki, but I figured I'd hold off pending initial discussion. > > So what I like about hCard is that I can create a social network of my > friends on one site, and once those services wisen up, can import all my > buddies at once via scraping the hcards off my friends listing pages. > > Now, I'd like to do the same thing for groups. So I need something like > hGroup. > > In the wild, groups usually have members and occassionally pools of data -- > like forum posts or photos. You can also have vlogging groups, gamer groups > and so on. So I'd break it down like this: > > --Group Name > | Description > | Tags > | > +--+ Members > | | > | +-- Member 1 (hcard) > | | > | +-- Member 2 (hcard) > | > +--+ Pool > | > +--+ Topic > | > +-- Post 1 (hatom) > | > +-- Post 2 (hatom) > > Anyway, what I want to be able to do is not only interchange my social > networks, but also my groups. If I've created a Flock group on Flock, > presumably I should have one created on Upcoming, iMeem and so on. Being > able to export these groups and share them between sites would be excellent. > > I dunno, what do people think? It's just like, the more social apps I try, > the less interest I have in reinstantiating my entire social networking > infrastruture. > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
