On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 22:25, Mingli Yuan <mingli.y...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, folks,
Hi Mingli, > I have a requirement of a new format for knowledge exchange. > But I am new to this area, and I want to get some advices. > > My specific requirement is for a format to exchange Wikipedia knowledge, > but of cause this format could be used in a boarder situations. In general in microformats we try to make the most use of existing microformats first before attempting to create a new format. In this case, many of the examples you mention appear to be covered by existing microformats: > For each article from Wikipedia, I want fill below metadata in its talk page: > > * title (different title in different language variant) > * permalink > * links for different language variant > * categories > * lead sentence > * abstract > * main photo (img link, width, hight) Take a look at hAtom which I believe covers almost all of this. http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom For different language variants, that's covered by plain HTML using rel="alternate" and hreflang="..." the language of the variant. > Some metadata can be retrieved via API calls from WIkipedia, but it > need many API calls. > Some metadata should be generated by human for good quality. > > I think I should separate common requirements from Wikipedia specific, > and I can understand this. > > My questions are: > > * Is this requirement common enough to make a specification? > * How dose people involve in a new specification? "Common enough" is necessary but not sufficient. For some details on what it takes to at least create a microformats draft specification, see the process: http://microformats.org/wiki/process > * How about other choices: such as RDFa, or HTML5 Micordata? No matter what syntax you use, you'll have to pick and use a vocabulary. microformats focuses on creating/discovering vocabularies to describe common web publishing behaviors. Many developers/designers find the microformats syntax (of using class attributes) easier and simpler to publish than other alternatives. > > Thanks for your help. > > Regards, > Mingli Regards Mingli, Also I highly recommend that you join the IRC channel at: irc://irc.freenode.net/microformats And feel free to ask questions there too - as you'll likely receive a much more precision answer as a results. Thanks! Tantek > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > microformats-discuss@microformats.org > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > -- http://tantek.com/ - I made an HTML5 tutorial! http://tantek.com/html5 _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
