Hi, This conversation is interesting as it is related to my research for my msc. Has there been any discussion on the value of adding higher level context to microformats? In the case of hCal, say you have event listings for some organization. If you were to parse out the content of the site you would grab the events, yay. But you don't really know what those events are for beyond the URL of the site or maybe the site title. But is that consistent, do all sites title reflect the context of the page and how it relates to affiliated sites? If you had more formats on a page and you were looking at dozens of similar sources (say higher education sites), wouldn't a machine benefit from some extra information?
Say on a uni home page I have some formats, I would like to know that it is a university and it is the central home page. If I go down to a faculty or school within that site I would want to know the relationship that information has. In a lot of cases faculties, schools, and departments are not in the main domain. Having a format at the top level that let a script know where the information is coming from and how it relates could be helpful. You could have class="schoolname faculty /organizationunit department" at a higher level. So on a Faculty of Science page at Waterloo you would have "UniversityofWaterloo Science Physics" Yes you could handle that in the meta tags and maybe that is the obvious answer... I haven't really thought this through but when you are dealing with massive and bizarre web spaces of higher education I can certainly see how some context would help assess the quality of the information. When you talk about namespaces it makes me think about that one part of the Semantic Web conversation of trusting the data and you need some context to help with the trust. The problem I am trying to solve is how to get some consistency and context in the HTML within sections of a larger web space that doesn't entirely live in the same domain. Jesse _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
