Hi folks, I've updated the hreview-aggregate draft spec to version 0.2 and included the new property "votes." You can see the draft here: http://microformats.org/wiki/hreview-aggregate
Best, Kavi On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Kavi Goel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just wanted to raise this topic one more time. Please let me know if > you have any feedback on the proposal to extend hreview-aggregate to > allow sites to differentiate between the number of individual reviews > there are vs the number of votes towards an aggregate rating (where a > vote may or may not have an associated individual review). > > Proposal: > http://microformats.org/wiki/aggregate-review-brainstorming#Reviews_vs_ratings > > Motivating examples: > http://microformats.org/wiki/aggregate-review-examples#Ratings_without_reviews_examples > > I'm planning on updating the hreview-aggregate draft within the next few days. > > Kavi > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Kavi Goel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Tantek, thanks for reviewing the hreview-aggregate draft. > > > > Per your suggestion, I've added several examples of sites that have > > separate counts for the number of ratings/votes and the number of > > reviews. The examples are here: > > http://microformats.org/wiki/aggregate-review-examples#Ratings_without_reviews_examples > > > > And to re-iterate the problem and proposal -- it's valuable to be able > > to differentiate between the number of reviews on a page vs the number > > of votes that contribute towards an average rating. For example, a > > page with 4 reviews is much more interesting than a page with 4 votes > > and 0 reviews. We'd like to extend the hreview-aggregate schema to > > include some method of differentiating these two different counts. The > > proposal is to add a new property called "votes"; more details are > > here: > > http://microformats.org/wiki/aggregate-review-brainstorming#Reviews_vs_ratings > > > > As before I'm happy to hear feedback on the proposal or any alternatives. > > > > Kavi > > > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Tantek Çelik <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Kavi Goel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I have replaced the stub page for hReview-aggregate with a draft spec > > > > describing the microformat that was decided on early this year. > > > ... > > > > http://microformats.org/wiki/hreview-aggregate > > > > > > > > > Hi Kavi, I've reviewed the hreview-aggregate page and it is an > > > excellent first draft. > > > > > > Thanks very much for writing this up. > > > > > > > > > > I have also updated the brainstorming page with a proposal to address > > > > one of the issues raised -- that users can leave a rating without > > > > writing a review. The current hreview-aggregate draft has a single > > > > property called "count" that is used to specify the number of reviews > > > > for a particular product or service. However, many sites have some > > > > number of votes (where users specify a numerical rating or a thumbs > > > > up/thumbs down vote) contributing to an average rating and a smaller > > > > number of full user reviews. > > > > > > > > The brainstorming page is here: > > > > http://microformats.org/wiki/aggregate-review-brainstorming > > > > > > Do you have documentation of real-world examples of sites that > > > separately publish number of votes/ratings and reviews? > > > > > > We should collect URLs to those examples in the > > > aggregate-review-examples page to make sure we are > > > modeling/brainstorming/proposing something that is designed > > > specifically for what is actually published today. > > > > > > http://microformats.org/wiki/aggregate-review-examples > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Tantek > > > _______________________________________________ > > > microformats-discuss mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
