On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:04:50 +0100
Corey Mwamba <send.miss...@coreymwamba.co.uk> wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to how to mark up a
> radio station using microformats, especially in relation to the
> frequencies - which I see as a type of address! Any thoughts?
Interesting question. hCard is probably a good start:
<div class="vcard">
<b class="fn org">Heart FM (Sussex)</b>
<i>102.4 MHz</i>
</div>
Now, how to encode the frequency? It is an address of sorts, or at
least a locator. Not the kind of address that is suitable for marking
up with class="adr" though. If there were a URI scheme for radio wave
frequencies this would be a little easier:
<div class="vcard">
<b class="fn org">Heart FM (Sussex)</b>
<a href="radio:fm:102400000"
class="url" >102.4 MHz</a>
</div>
Radio stations are very geography-specific. 50 miles away a completely
different organisation could be broadcasting on the same frequency. So
our hypothetical "radio:" URI scheme would probably need a geographic
signifier to be attached:
<div class="vcard">
<b class="fn org">Heart FM (Sussex)</b>
<a href="radio:fm:102400000;context=geo:50.9761,0.2293"
class="url">102.4 MHz</a>
</div>
However, such a URI scheme does not exist. It could be registered with
IANA, or you could bypass that requirement by using a specialised HTTP
prefix instead, a la <http://dbooth.org/2006/urn2http/>.
Short of specialised URIs to identify radio signals, the most
appropriate construct in hCard would probably be class="note". e.g.:
<div class="vcard">
<b class="fn org">Heart FM (Sussex)</b>
<i class="note">
102.4 MHz
<abbr title="50.9761;0.2293"
class="geo">(Eastbourne)</abbr>
</i>
</div>
--
Toby A Inkster
<mailto:m...@tobyinkster.co.uk>
<http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
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