On 11/17/06, Eric Skiff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think that the work you're doing right now on hItem could be some of the most important microformat work yet. I'm sure you've already made the connection I just came to, but here's why I'm excited.
I'm not sure if I'm that excited :-) but I definitely think there's a gap that can be filled (i.e. that hReview/hListing identify people directly but only things indirectly). It's possible, but this is very speculative, that this could simplify the path for creating new microformats like hWine.
This could also make hReview much more powerful in my opinion, assuming hItem is embeddable in the same way hCard is. Using our wine example from before, you could just link to an hItem from the review.
There's an analogous problem here with linking hCards (such as Ryan King's on the microformats blog) to a "better" hCard (Ryan King's official one).
I'd definitely advocate for hItem including information about its creator, and optionally its producer and vendor. These of course could be hCard entries or links, and I think it would give us a flexible way to include much of the information that felt very "wine" specific such as Vintage (aka, producer and production date). It seems as though an hItem's production and creation could also be considered events, so reusing hEvent here seems to make a lot of sense. What do you think? Is this more complicated than it needs to be, or is the reuse of other microformats here a good thing?
Let's go through the examples and see what's frequently used, somewhat used and rarely or sporadically used. That will point the right direction I think. And, as per usual, I encourage everyone to contribute to the examples because that's one of the hardest and least thanked parts.
Also, is this ground already being covered by hListing (which seems to be looking to include some of this info), or would you simply have hListings of events (hEvent), people (hCard), and things (hItem)?
The latter, but we're data mining hListing/hReview to maximize reuse.
Thanks -Eric
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