On Jan 24, 2007, at 7:30 PM, anders conbere wrote:
All over the web there are code snippets and code examples, and just
plain people showing of little programs they've written. This data is
typical acompanied by an author or list of authors, a lisence, the
language type and version and various other bits of meta data. This
seems to me to be an excelent place for microformats.
First as a way to standardize this collection of metadata which might
help decrease the confusion over licensing and various other issues
that plague online code examples.
Second because this is data that in and of itself does nothing on the
web. It has to be downloaded, and run in various other applications
to have any use. Standardizing the format would allow for easy
download, collection and use of this data.
I wrote a little proposal regarding what I see as being a possible
schema etc. at http://anders.conbere.org/posts/code-microformat/
The first step is not to write a schema but to create a wiki page
documenting existing examples of pages. Microformats is about paving
the cow paths, so one of the major inputs in our design process is
seeing what's already out there.
I would recommend looking at various pastebin websites and some
programming oriented blogs. Something else you might want to also
consider looking at is lxr (there's an install for mozilla at
lxr.mozilla.org).
I don't have any real experience doing this kind of stuff so I welcome
comments, suggestions of criticism. Really I just want to attempt to
get discussion started.
The best way to do that is to create the brainstorming pages and do
the leg work there. Once you have numerous examples, the process of
figuring out what's common and what's not can begin. Finding examples
in the wild is the most important step!
Hope that helps,
-Colin
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