Hello All This is to try and help the stalled hAudio Title Issue http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-new/2008-February/001532.html
hAudio title is an Issue because its meaning is not the same as the hcard definition a "job title" unless the title attribute in haudio means "Job title" we cant use it because microformats describe single precise instances and do not have the ability to disambiguate... there are probably more reasons but the above is a good reason why a solution should be found, the development and adoption of the haudio microformat can not realistically continue until this issue is resolved. So I have been spending some time recently studying the audio info examples pages asking How Many of the examples use the word "Title" to mean an audio title? we want to call this thing "title" lets find some hard evidence? http://microformats.org/wiki/audio-info-examples Out of 54 working examples 20 use the word or have the word Title in markup 37% 34 use just song, track or nothing in markup 63% As you can see there is no clear cut 80/20 result, so the action may be at this point to choose what would seem to be second best and choose "title" but 63% of the examples are doing something else, In most cases nothing meaningful just naming things. Alternative use "NAME" instead of "TITLE" as this seems to be what the majority of the examples are doing simply naming the objects. name http://www.answers.com/name&r=67 "1, A word or words by which an entity is designated and distinguished from others." good... Name http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name "A name is a label for a human or animal, thing, place, product (as in a brand name) and even an idea or concept, normally used to distinguish one from another. Names can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or within a given context." better... possible microformats definition name - A label for the object or thing, contents are a short textual description of the object or thing. hmm! ...that's just my deffinition :) I have dumped all my notes on why "name" may be more desirable than "title" in a single text file which may make interesting reading http://tinyurl.com/yt7g4u Its interesting to add that a "name" microformat may enhance the "n" definition on http://microformats.org/wiki/existing-classes where it says "The name of the unit" name can be hyperlinked to the "name" definition of "A short textual description of the object or thing" I dont know if any of the above helps, It may even muddy the waters more comments feedback would be nice. Thanks all Martin McEvoy _______________________________________________ microformats-new mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new
