We discussed briefly the issues with ISO Dates on the Dev List http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-dev/2005-December/000045.html
Recently, at reboot 8, which was all about the 14th century renaissance, there has been use of vevents to describe events that took place hundreds of years ago[1,2]. Because hCalendar uses ISO Dates we are limited. We can't switch easily between gregorian and julian, as well as describe BCE dates, or circa 1492. -brian [1] - http://adactio.com/articles/1132/ [2] - http://adactio.com/journal/1141/ Jeremy Boggs wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm new to the list and new to microformats, so I hope the list > doesn't mind an newbie inquiry. > > I'm a web designer at the Center for History and New Media > (http://chnm.gmu.edu) at George Mason University, where we build > scholarly, educational, and exhibit-based websites related to history, > as well as a number of tools for educators and historians. One tool > we're creating is called Timeline Builder, which will be a simple way > for anyone to create and display historical timelines. The hCalendar > microformat seems perfect for this kind of tool. We're thinking of > making something like the hCard creator, where a teacher or student > could go fill out a form, adding events, and generating a timeline > they could use on their own website or save in a user account. > > A few questions: > > 1. Is marking up events that happened decades or centuries ago with > hCalendar an abuse of the spec and/or the spirit of the hCalendar > format? I know the wiki page says its good for "writeups of past > events", but I'm wondering if events hundreds of years in the past is > what the spec has in mind. > > 2. Has someone does this already, or discussed it already? I've done a > few searches with no luck. > > 3. Is this something worth pursuing, and a good application of > microformats, or so problematic to make it futile? > > My biggest concerns involve date parsing in general, various changes > in calendars and dating in the past (e.g. the switch from Julian to > Gregorian calendar in the 16th century), and accounting for dating > systems in other regions and cultures, present and past. > > I've got lots more questions for the list, depending of course on the > answers to the questions I've posed above and related specifically to > how to mark up different kinds of historical events with hCalendar. > > Thanks! > Jeremy Boggs > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
