[I've been hearing that this email may not have gone through, so I am resending.]
Please read a proposal for microformats about aggregate data (i.e. collections of reviews, collections of products, etc) below. Feedback is encouraged. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kavi Goel <k...@google.com> Date: Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:22 PM Subject: New proposal - aggregate microformats To: "For discussion of new microformats." <microformats-new@microformats.org> Microformats gurus, Awhile ago, I expressed interest in extending hReview to handle the "aggregate reviews" case (i.e. 34 reviews, average rating of 3.5 / 5). Currently hReview is designed to mark up only a single review, whereas frequently on the web the aggregate info is more important than any single user review. Technically, aggregating reviews by aggregating a bunch of individual hReviews across a site can be very difficult, so there is a lot of value to be gained by marking up aggregate information directly. The proposal that gained momentum was to define a new "aggregate hReview" microformat that contains one field "count" and has one embedded hReview. A further comment was made that if we are going to define a new microformat, we should apply this idea more generally to handle many types of aggregations rather than consider aggregate price info (aggregate hProduct/hListing), aggregate discussion posts (aggregate hAtom), etc separately. Othar Hansson and I have put together a proposal to handle aggregations of microformats in a general way. Please provide feedback: http://microformats.org/wiki/aggregate-microformat-template-examples http://microformats.org/wiki/aggregate-microformat-template-brainstorming Kavi _______________________________________________ microformats-new mailing list microformats-new@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new
