RE: [uf-discuss] microformats for normal people, like my mum

2007-06-30 Thread Bob Jonkman
This is what Joe Andrieu said about "RE: [uf-discuss] microformats for normal people, " on 29 Jun 2007 at 0:04 > Someone somewhere is going to name this thing. It might be a journalist. > It might be FF. It could be a blogger. It might be Joe Andrieu... > The idea that there is data embedded i

[uf-discuss] Interview on microformats, etc

2007-06-30 Thread Chris Messina
Hey all, I gave an interview to Nicola Mattina when I was in London for FOWA back in February. He's put it online and it might be of interest ... given that I both give a demo of hCalendar from start to finish and talk generally about microformats concepts... http://www.viddler.com/explore/nico

Re: hCard history and extensions (was Re: [uf-discuss] Date of Death in hCard)

2007-06-30 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Jonkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Also, it is important to keep the one-to-one mapping of the VCARD standard to hCard. That's an unsubstantiated assertion. -- Andy Mabbett ___ microformats-discuss mailing list m

Re: hCard history and extensions (was Re: [uf-discuss] Date of Death in hCard)

2007-06-30 Thread Bob Jonkman
I think Jeremy is absolutely right. Genealogy data can already be semantically marked up with existing microformats. Don't forget to include the Citation microformat for genealogical sources. Also, it is important to keep the one-to-one mapping of the VCARD standard to hCard. VCARD alrea

Re: hCard history and extensions (was Re: [uf-discuss] Date of Death in hCard)

2007-06-30 Thread Jeremy Keith
I don't believe that hCard needs to be extended to accommodate a "date of death" field. I think that we already have a microformat to deal with this use case; it just doesn't happen to be hCard. The dtend field in hCalendar seems like the perfect fit for this. Microformats are intended to b

[uf-discuss] Hidden metadata no microformats

2007-06-30 Thread Andy Mabbett
Several editors on Wikipedia are calling for the modification of the templates which implement microformat, to use hidden metadata. I thought there was a prohibition on hidden metadata in the specs, or at least somewhere on the wiki, but all I Can find now is: visible data is much better