I'm looking at media-examples and -brainstorming and past work like http://microformats.org/wiki/media-metadata-examples that catalog existing media formats, but I have a conceptual microformat question before diving into these.
How would such a media-info microformat specify which media it is describing? Take http://www.artistserver.com/artist/index.cfm/a/14355/xmuzik_rekordz where for each track you have various images, links and metadata mixed in a block. The metadata concerns the linked mp3, not the images or other links. AFAICT existing microformats do not have the problem of the microformat describing data within the microformat (this is different than nesting). I'm guessing there would be a class denoting media (which might be an image, object, link, perhaps other) being described, something like <div class="strawmanmediainfo"> <a class="strawmanthisisthemedia" href="foo.mp3">foo</a> <object ... >flash player here</object> <img src="foo.jpg" title="waveform" /> <a rel="tag" href="http://musictags.example.com/nerdcore";>nerdcore</a> </div> I think it is fairly obvious how one would describe other media that happened to fall within a media microformat block (nesting), but let me throw out an example in hopes of being corrected early if I am crazy: <div class="strawmanmediainfo"> <a class="strawmanthisisthemedia" href="foo.mp3">foo</a> <object ... >flash player here</object> <div class="strawmanmediainfo"> <img class="strawmanthisisthemedia" src="foo.jpg" title="waveform" /> <a rel="tag" href="http://tagimg.example.net/waveform";>waveform</a> </div> <a rel="tag" href="http://musictags.example.com/nerdcore";>nerdcore</a> </div> Does the above make sense, structurally? Are there other approaches that I've missed? -- http://wiki.creativecommons.org/User:Mike_Linksvayer _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
