On 4/11/06, Jude Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all - I've been lurking for a while, so > thought it was about time I decloaked with a > simple question: is it possible that the (yet to > be defined) chat microformat could be used for > podcast transcripts, eg: > http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/v440/n7085/nature-2006-04-06.html
anything is possible :-) my personal need[1] (ref the archives) is for something that captures the intimate details of irc/im conversations. things like timestamps and enter/leave messages and topic changes. that may or may not be appropriate for podcast (or other) transcripts. i suspect there are some common, reusable elements lurking in there someplace, though. one of the cool things about the way microformats are developed is the gathering of examples. that tends to make it clear(ish) what the commonalities are, and whether they're accidental or essential. although i'm not a personl fan, there's a certain amount of sentiment for using definition lists[2] for conversations, and it does seem to match up pretty well for the podcast transcript. the traditional advice at this point would be to start getting together a set of examples-in-the-wild of the sort of thing you're talking about, and let the examples guide the thinking... -cks [1] http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-February/002953.html [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/lists.html#h-10.3, yeah, i know, it actually says, right there in the 4.01 spec, that DL's might be used to mark up dialog, but dialog isn't a definition, is it? i don't like it. but that's just me. -- Christopher St. John http://artofsystems.blogspot.com http://eventmirror.com _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
