> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I've been thinking about creating an aggregator of book reviews, based >> on >> the hReview format. People just needed to drop their website link and it >> would ping it regularly for new reviews. But since the microformat has a >> field 'type' where the best description for a book e product, the parser >> could also get several reviews non-related with books. On the hReview >> FAQ >> it advises to use to book rel='tag' to specify more the type of the >> review, this doesn't seem to be a common practice in the Examples in the >> wild. So I ask you what would be the best way to find the book reviews. >> Asking for everyone to put the book tag and probably losing hundreds of >> reviews already out there without it? Run the title of the review >> against >> the Amazon database? >> >> Thanks in advance for any feedback. >> >> >> Sérgio Santos >> www.sergiosantos.info >> >> _______________________________________________ >> microformats-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss >> > > Hi Sérgio, > > Our site LouderVoice is a general hreview aggregator and we took the > basic approach of using tags. We have both search > (http://www.loudervoice.com/search?q=book) and tags > (http://www.loudervoice.com/tags/book), but even there you can see a big > disparity between the search count and the tag count, so I understand > your concerns. Have you looked at that Amazon->hreview tool? I can't > find the URL right now. > > Conor > > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss >
Just found the tool you mentioned: http://www.microform.at/amazon2hreview/. Nice one. It's a good idea to use the Amazon reviews, it's one of the biggest reviews database. But I would prefer to not use a centralized resource, an agregate directly from blogs and other personal websites. Just like the good platform you have on LouderVoice. Sérgio Santos www.sergiosantos.info _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
