[uf-discuss] Re: xfn and biographies

2008-02-03 Thread Toby A Inkster
Jim O'Donnell wrote: Has anyone done any work on simple microformat class names based on the Dublin Core element set? If you're using rel attributes on link and a elements, then take a look at RFC 2731 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2731.txt. An example of a page making use of this RFC can be

[uf-discuss] Re: xfn and biographies

2008-01-28 Thread Edward O'Connor
Jim O'Donnell wrote: At work, I'm kicking around microformats as a method for adding additional semantic information to archives - letters, diary entries, log books and so on[...] Also, the rel attribute on links seems handy for expressing relationships between letters and their authors, or

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: xfn and biographies

2008-01-27 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jim O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On 26 Jan 2008, at 19:07, Andy Mabbett wrote: That sounds like a situation where you would use the putative citation microformat which will hopefully include an author or creator property, utilising hCard. I'm thinking, at

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: xfn and biographies

2008-01-27 Thread Jim O'Donnell
I'm thinking, at the moment, of avoiding hCard completely in the letters themselves, Why? It adds good, semantic mark-up. Practical reasons, really. The names in the letters aren't marked up specifically as names, or regularised in any way. The HTML is generated, not manually authored.

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: xfn and biographies

2008-01-26 Thread Jim O'Donnell
On 23 Jan 2008, at 20:44, Toby A Inkster wrote: Jim O'Donnell wrote: Also, the rel attribute on links seems handy for expressing relationships between letters and their authors, or letters and their recipients, or even letters in a series of correspondence. Does anyone know if there are

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: xfn and biographies

2008-01-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jim O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes letter-to-author is the relationship I'm really interested in That sounds like a situation where you would use the putative citation microformat which will hopefully include an author or creator property, utilising hCard.

Re: [uf-discuss] Re: xfn and biographies

2008-01-26 Thread Jim O'Donnell
On 26 Jan 2008, at 19:07, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message 0F667B0C-8A0D-4345-AF3B- [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jim O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes letter-to-author is the relationship I'm really interested in That sounds like a situation where you would use the putative citation microformat

Fwd: [uf-discuss] Re: xfn and biographies

2008-01-26 Thread Jim O'Donnell
Begin forwarded message: If my biography links to a letter, and that link says rel=creator, then I think it's reasonable for a parser to infer, from the rel=me link, that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Matthew_Flinders also describes the creator of the letter. I don't think I need to

[uf-discuss] Re: xfn and biographies

2008-01-23 Thread Toby A Inkster
Jim O'Donnell wrote: Also, the rel attribute on links seems handy for expressing relationships between letters and their authors, or letters and their recipients, or even letters in a series of correspondence. Does anyone know if there are any examples of this out there already? rel/rev=made