I'm new to microformats. I read Mary Hodder's excellent wiki page
describing the current landscape, but I didn't find a specific
microformat for media metadata.
Is there a concrete recommendation for microformats to express media
metadata? If not, would one of you more experienced microformatters
have time to help me whip up a proposal?
Our specific need:
We added YouTube and Google video thumbnails to digg.com yesterday.
http://diggtheblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/video-thumbnails.html
We used YouTube's public API and an unpublished Google mechanism to
fetch their thumbnails. YouTube's API is great, but it's a bit
heavyweight for just fetching thumbnails. Fortunately, there's an
opportunity to influence other sites to adopt a microformat for the
thumbnail and perhaps other metadata.
Digg invited other video hosting services to contact us about getting
their thumbnails on digg, and a bunch of them have contacted us already.
They're asking us what they need to do, and I'd like to respond,
"Just mark up the video's permalink page with this here microformat,
and we'll use that to grab the thumbnail." But I don't know enough
to tell them exactly how to do it.
Thanks!
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