Ted Drake wrote: > Could the Dublin core be converted into a microformat.
<h1>New Additions to the Museum Collection</h1> <ul> <li class="objet"> <h2 class="dc:title">Comb</h2> <ul> <li class="dc:date:created">circa 3200 BCE; Predynastic period</li> <li class="geo">Egypt (<span class="latitude" title="30">N 30°</span>, <span class="latitude" title="31.2">E 31°12'</span>) </li> <li> <span class="dc:type scheme:dcmitype" title="PhysicalObject"></span> <span class="dc:format">Ivory; 5.7 cm</span> </li> <li class="dc:publisher vcard"> <span class="fn">The Metropolitan Museum of Art</span> <span class="adr"> <span class="locality">New York</span>, <span class="country-name">USA</span> </span> </li> </ul> <p class="dc:description"> Finely carved ivory combs and knife handles produced toward the end of Egypt's prehistory demonstrate the high standards Egyptian artists had achieved, even before the Old Kingdom. This comb may have been part of the funeral equipment of an elite person who lived about 5,200 years ago. Parts of the comb's teeth, now missing, can be seen along the bottom edge. The detailed decoration suggests that it was a ceremonial object, not just an instrument for arranging the hair. On both sides are figures of animals in horizontal rows, a spatial organization familiar from later Egyptian art. The animals include elephants and snakes; wading birds and a giraffe; hyenas; cattle; and perhaps boars. Similar arrangements of these creatures on other carved ivory implements suggest that the arrangement and choice of animals were not haphazard. Elephants treading on snakes suggest that this part of the scene was symbolic. The mythologies of many African peoples associate elephants and serpents with the creation of the universe. The uppermost row of this comb may symbolize a creative deity to whom the rest of the animals owe their existence. </p> </li> <li class="objet"><!-- another objet --></li> </ul> Notes: 1. An object's class is intentionally "objet", from "objet d'art" to avoid collisions with existing use of class="object". 2. I'm not 100% sure about the best use of "geo" here. Should it be used to markup where the object was created (as I have done here); where the object currently is; or both? 3. Note the empty span to represent the dc:type metadata. Virtually all items in museums are physical objects, so I didn't think it necessary to show this information to human users. 4. I'm not sure about scheme:dcmitype. Are schemes necessary, or is that going too far? 5. Could somehow integrate with XOXO? -- Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS [Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux] [OS: Linux 2.6.12-12mdksmp, up 104 days, 16:20.] URLs in demiblog http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/05/31/demiblog-urls/ _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss