I do have some spare cycles (not many), but i'm always up for a challenge, August 30 is acceptable.
<p class="shameless-plug"> I have to prep some for my talk at EuroOSCON in september, hopefully i can add some citation stuff in there as well. If anyone else will be attended feel free to say hello in person. </p> <p class="shameless-plug"> The other thing that is keeping very busy is that i am putting some final touches on a "Introduction to Microformats" eBook for O'Reilly, which is due in a few weeks. It is part of their "shortcuts" series and i'll post a link once it is available. </p> A few of the other things to clarify and point out from where we left off and to bring people up to speed. 1) The list of properties available in the straw proposal may look long and unweildy, but that is just a FRACTION of what was available. It may not seem like we "started simple" but if you knew what is out there, you'd realise that we did! The way we arrived at those properties are as follows: We examined several of the most popular formats, and took the UNION of their common terms. We then examined examples in the wild and then took a UNION of those terms and the common terms of the formats to arrive at the short list in the strawman. 2) Much like hCard, you don't have to use the FULL microformat. hCard has options for ORG, ADR, etc. If you wanted to just represent a structured name, there is no need to create a microformat, just use the parts of hCard you need. This citation microformat will be similar. If you want to JUST have a book title, then this format will sufice, it is just like any of the other microformats, beyond the required properties, everything is optional! 3) One of the other things we wanted to "look out" for was the emergence of the media-info format. There has been some movement on that. We wanted to be sure that the way a citation describes a book/CD/DVD is not incompatable to that of a media-info format. Arguing end-user formats, i think, it is moot. Once we have a solid citation microformat that covers the 80/20 of the common terms within the citation formats AND citations in the wild, you will be able to transform that HTML into BibTeX, COiNS, OpenURL, MS Word ODF Citation, CSV, or any that pop-up in the future - you can even style it in Plain-Text as MLA, Chicago Style, or any other. I'll do some homework and get caught-up with all the developments since our last major discussion. -brian On 7/30/06, Edward Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jul 30, 2006, at 2:08 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: > What if we set a goal for hCite 0.1 of August 30? Is that reasonable? If Brian Suda has the spare cycles I think this is an excellent idea. The citation effort has gone on for a long time, so Simon's questions are most welcome. //Ed_______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
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