Hi All,
first let me introduce myself: I'm a 35-year-old Webdeveloper living
in Berlin, Germany. I care a lot about semantic stuff and CSS, so I
feel kind of addicted to that MicroFormat-Thing.
I didn't use it a lot up to now though, but there is an idea I would
like to materialize. In the last months I cared a lot about Open
Music, Music published under cc-licence and netlabels offering that
stuff. Since I'm running a blog I got the idea of creating a top-5-
list of the tracks I like best from the different labels. To make the
thing more communicating I thought it funny to give the netlabels the
opportunity to grab my top-lists including the resulting ratings. If
more bloggers or community-sites feel like doing this, the labels
could establish something like the blogosphere-web2.0-community-
BillBoards.
So I contacted one of the netlabels, they're quite interested in this
idea, so I thought of how to form this idea in the most simple and
effective way and stumbled across the microformat-thing. I looked
around the blog and the wiki to find out if something would match my
idea and what I can see for the moment is the vision of a top-list
microformat (for audio), including the haudio-Format and the hreview-
format to form something like this:
<ol>
<li class="hAudio">
<img src="http://www.thinner.cc/pics/covers/thn092cover.jpg";
style="display: none" class="image-summary" />
<span class="audio-title"><a href="ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/music/
groups/thinner/%5Bthn092%5D-02-christian_dittmann_-
_rechazamos_el_ahora.mp3">rechazamos el ahora</a></span>
<span class="contributor">
<span class="vcard">
<span class="fn org"><a href="http://www.discogs.com/artist/
Christian+Dittmann">Christian Dittmann</a></span>
</span>
</span>
<span class="album-title"><a href="http://www.discogs.com/release/
924203">emporio</a></span>
<span class="publisher org"><a href="http://www.thinner.cc/
main.php">thinner</a></span>
<span class="catalog-id"><a href="http://www.thinner.cc/
releases.php?r=thn092">thn 092</a></span>
<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed-
music" rel="licence">cc-by-nc-nd</a>
<span class="rating"></span>
</li>
</ol>
My thoughts up to this point are:
- Did I use the microformats right, did I get the idea properly?
- Since it's a top-list the use of <ol> is the semantic correct way,
so to establish the format it should be convention to start with
something like <ol class="htoplist">?
- Is the licence correctly included with an <a rel>?
- How can the rating be included? Does it make sense to work with
hreview here?
- A top-list can be seen as a review, might it be better to
straighten the whole thing out to the hreview thing? So it could also
be used for top-lists not regarding audio-tracks. But it also seems
logical to use haudio if it's audio-material. So especially for audio-
top-lists would it be OK to make that clear by the use of <li
class="haudio">?
- If a top-list is also a review: should it be extended by the
hreview-possibilities? Like for example if I write a review about a
track like maybe on my blog or somewhere else, it would be
semantically interesting to paste this information together with my
top-list.
Second is: how can those informations be collected by let's say the
netlabels? As to now I have the idea of a php-script writing the data
in a database and thus creating the netlabel-toplist consisting of
the data from participating Blogs, community-sites and whatever.
Lots of thoughts, hope one can follow at least ;-)
Greez,
Regine Heidorn
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