Russ, thanks for the pointer!...it seems that ideas fly quite quickly between Australia and italy ;-) Your motivations for hMood are namely the same as mine: about semantic self-expression in blogs [1], improved understanding/readability (similar to what a smiley could provide...BTW, should we go for a smiley microformat? ;-)), as well as statistics for example. Mood values defined in RFC4480 [2] could be a good starting point...
>From a telco2.0 perspective we're trying to merge as much as we can with Web2.0 and Microformats are one way of doing it for interfacing to web content, both for producing and retrieving information. Mood is widely used in communication systems (IM, Presence, etc) but is one of the most difficult information to produce/retrieve. Adding such info to blogs could be an additional source of information to integrate in Presence, or vice-versa... Personally i don't restrict Microformats as simple "problem-solvers", but do envision them as *the* most efficient way of adding semantics to web content from a practical, yet straightforward manner. walter [1] http://ilps.science.uva.nl/MoodViews/About/ [2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4480.txt -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin Barrett Sent: sabato 27 gennaio 2007 7.02 To: Microformats Discuss Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] hMood/hPresence? On Jan 26, 2007, at 2:40 AM, Goix Laurent Walter wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any plan/interest to work on a hMood or hPresence microformat > that could describe information related to the mood or the activity > of a > person/group? Bloggers typically express their feelings over the > web, or > what they have been doing during the day, so it would be interesting > to > better formalize this information... How is mood information useful? I can think of some silly examples, but I don't really see how knowing what someone's when they wrote a particular blog entry would be useful, or what a tool could do with it -- remember, microformats are about solving problems. What *would* be useful would be some way to mark up where you are writing a blog entry / news item, etc, from or about. Perhaps hCal has the right semantics for this? ("on date X at time Y I was in location Z"). I'm not sure if there's much existing semantic HTML for this. My guess would be that currently people say "I'm writing from MacWorld" and then link MacWorld to the event information. Simply embedding an hCalendar item discussing the event probably isn't enough -- someone could simply be discussing the event. Anyone else think this would be an interesting area for further research of existing examples -- or even better, have done research in this area already? -Colin _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss -------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This message and its attachments are addressed solely to the persons above and may contain confidential information. If you have received the message in error, be informed that any use of the content hereof is prohibited. Please return it immediately to the sender and delete the message. Should you have any questions, please contact us by replying to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you www.telecomitalia.it -------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
