On Thursday, January 25, 2007 5:53 PM Chris Messina wrote: > Take a look at XBN -- we brought up this idea awhile back on > Tara's urging... > > http://tinyurl.com/2qa5pc > > There's also more there generally about the idea of "professional" > relationships. I favor a moderate advancement of professional > relationships, especially in the context of hResume...
> Let's see if we can advance the topic this time around. Thanks for re-posting this, Chris. I don't know how I missed it the first time around. About a year ago, when I was playing with hResume for the first time[1], I found the need to extend on XFN and came up with space seperated values like: rel="employer former", rel="employer current". Now that I'm working at LinkedIn, I can see the need for other definitions. For a real-world example, LinkedIn defines the following relationships (this is taken directly from what we present to the user for LinkedIn recommendations): # Colleague: You've worked with Joe at the same company - You managed Joe directly - You reported directly to Joe - You were senior to Joe, but did not manage directly - Abdul was senior to you, but you did not report directly - You worked with Joe in the same group - You worked with Joe in different groups # Service Provider: You've hired Joe to provide a service for you or your company # Business Partner: You've worked with Joe, but not as a client or colleague - You worked with Joe but were at different companies - Joe was a client of yours Obviously, what LinkedIn calls a Colleague in the description above translates to "co-worker" in XFN and what we call a Business Partner translates to "colleague" in XFN. Right now, we currently use XFN to markup a user's contacts as rel="contact". We want to expand XFN usage in the near term so that a contact at the same company is marked up as a rel="co-worker". But it would be great to have some additional values to work with. Beyond the professional relationships, a relationship that we define at LinkedIn is that of "classmate". I see this in use at a number of social networks. I think rel="classmate" with variations of "former" and "current" would be very useful. - Steve [1] http://steve.ganz.name/blog/2006/01/hresume.html _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
