Google Base is explicitly trying to do something that Microformats are not: boil the ocean, or in this particular case, a sea in the ocean.
Google Base silos are basically spreadsheets; each record is a row in the spreadsheet. How do you model that in Microformats? In fact, the best/easiest way of modeling that is supported by Google Base: you can upload CSV files. The Google Base data API just provides a simple way of expressing that spreadsheet in XML. Marc Canter's bizarre rant this morning about standards aside, I know of no standard alternative way to do this. RDF/XML is too expressive, Microformats doesn't try to be expressive outside of defined problems. BTW: I demoed in April a quick and dirty hCalendar to Google Calendar translator (the API to Google Calendar is GData). I didn't pursue this any further except to demo as a trick because Google didn't provide a mechanism for 3rd parties to post on your behalf, which meant your password would have to be given up. With AuthSub [2] this is no longer an issue so perhaps it's worth reinvestigating. Regards, etc... David [1] http://blog.davidjanes.com/:search:democamp [2] http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/authsub.html On 8/24/06, Scott Reynen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Aug 24, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Chris Messina wrote: > However, microformats seem a whole lot easier and a lower barrier to > entry in many respects (though they'd have to get involved in the > community process which may be too slow for them). At the very least, > supporting both microformats and their own made up magical API would > be a nice overture. If you think a microformats API to Google Base would be useful, why not build one on top of the existing API? Live applications make for more compelling arguments. Peace, Scott _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
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