I think this is a great question Nora. We're building a review
publisher/aggregator built on hReview and we ended up dropping "type"
from our reviews as it was confusing our beta testers and not really
adding any value to our site.
What is a movie? Most testers did not consider it a product, some
thought it might be an event if they saw it in a movie theatre. Many
even found the difference between product and business confusing. So we
removed type and just have "add address details if you have them" to
cover business-style reviews. We let tags take care of everything else.
I can see the logic of saying if type=business then hCard mandatory and
if type=event then hCalendar mandatory but I'd be interested to hear
about more uses of this limited list.
Conor
Nora Brown wrote:
I know this is partially addressed in the first hReview FAQ on the
microformats wiki, but I have a more general question. I have been
reading a lot about microformats, and have used hCard, but am fairly
new to them overall.
The possible values of 'type' are limited to: product | business |
event | person | place | website | url. Why? It seems quite strange
and indirect, even undesirable, to me to add a link to the Wikipedia
"definition" of a book (as a tag, suggested in the FAQ) to my academic
book review as a way of simply saying "I am reviewing a book". So my
question is, why do the types have to be limited to this list? And, if
there is a good technical reason why they should be, why not allow a
sub-type, that is open to any value? As it is, the extremely general
nature of the types available make them much less useful. No one is
ever looking for a review of any old "business" in Santa Cruz, CA,
they are looking for a restaurant or movie theater. Any information on
this topic is really appreciated.
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