Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-08 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Smethurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The problem for my work is I'm taking artist names out of musicbrainz. Musicbrainz does differentiate between artists singular and groups but the name field is a single string. I can use: span class=fn

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-07 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Guillaume Lebleu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes not least because the alternative: foo class=fnPink Floyd/foo would be optimised (sic) to have a given name of Pink and a family name of Floyd. I don't disagree that groups/bands should be considered

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-07 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 7/2/08 00:13, Guillaume Lebleu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't disagree that groups/bands should be considered organisations. This takes me back several months (June 2007) to a thread about whether both music:groups and music:artists_singular should be marked up as organisations:

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-07 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Thu, February 7, 2008 09:55, Michael Smethurst wrote: This takes me back several months (June 2007) to a thread about whether both music:groups and music:artists_singular should be marked up as organisations: http://www.mail-archive.com/microformats-discuss@microformats.org/msg07887.html

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-07 Thread Martin McEvoy
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 09:55 +, Michael Smethurst wrote: Agreed. The problem also arises with artists like Eminem, Madonna, Prince. How is fn optimisation supposed to work here? As we find a lot in music your above examples are people and Organizations. How it appears, I would guess is how

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-07 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Thu, February 7, 2008 15:37, Scott Reynen wrote: On Feb 7, 2008, at 4:59 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: If it's just a generic contact that you know nothing about, I'd say just use fn, as adding org is potentially incorrect information. But if you know it's a music act, I think it makes sense

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-07 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Thu, February 7, 2008 14:33, Michael Smethurst wrote: At the time Scott Reynen suggested: snip If it's just a generic contact that you know nothing about, I'd say just use fn, as adding org is potentially incorrect information. But if you know it's a music act, I think it makes sense to

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-07 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 7/2/08 11:59, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, February 7, 2008 09:55, Michael Smethurst wrote: This takes me back several months (June 2007) to a thread about whether both music:groups and music:artists_singular should be marked up as organisations:

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-07 Thread Scott Reynen
On Feb 7, 2008, at 4:59 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: If it's just a generic contact that you know nothing about, I'd say just use fn, as adding org is potentially incorrect information. But if you know it's a music act, I think it makes sense to consider even an individual performer's name to be

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-07 Thread Guillaume Lebleu
Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Guillaume Lebleu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes not least because the alternative: foo class=fnPink Floyd/foo would be optimised (sic) to have a given name of Pink and a family name of Floyd. I don't disagree that groups/bands should be

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-07 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Thu, February 7, 2008 15:46, Guillaume Lebleu wrote: Sorry if I misinterpreted: I'm not a native english speaker. Doesn't not least because [reason] means that [reason] is not the least reason, i.e. a strong one? Literally, yes, but in colloquial use it can mean not the weakest, but far

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-07 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 7/2/08 15:30, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, February 7, 2008 14:33, Michael Smethurst wrote: Not sure I follow. The hcard wiki page says nickname optimisation happens when FN and ORG are not the same, and the value of the FN property is exactly one word. What would:

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-06 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes How about removing the 'contributor' class from the key creator's vcard? It would make sense to me to group contributors separately to the creator. The vcard attached to the hAudio would denote the

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-06 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Martin McEvoy wrote: Hello Robert Hi Martin, nice meeting you the other day On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 18:39 +, Robert O'Rourke wrote: For cover tracks you'd have something like: span class=contributor vcard span class=roleOriginal Artist/span - span class=fn orgPrimal

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-06 Thread Martin McEvoy
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 12:29 +, Robert O'Rourke wrote: Martin McEvoy wrote: Hello Robert Hi Martin, nice meeting you the other day Well met too its surprising the places that you meet people ;) On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 18:39 +, Robert O'Rourke wrote: For cover tracks

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-06 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Martin McEvoy wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 12:29 +, Robert O'Rourke wrote: Martin McEvoy wrote: I AM worried that we should be using title instead of role in some cases... That depends if you look at a piece of music as having jobs associated with it. Is a piece of music

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-06 Thread Manu Sporny
Robert O'Rourke wrote: Ah yes, so would you say 'performer', 'creator' and 'composer' are roles and not different to being a contributor? Yes, that is why 'contributor' was picked, rather than 'performer', 'creator', or 'composer'. :) It would be useful to have a more blanket term for

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-06 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin McEvoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Role is hardly ever used in hcard in the real world I use it. In fact: http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/bardsey/ might include the first ever hCard with a role of Lighthouse keeper! -- Andy Mabbett

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-06 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Manu Sporny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes It would be useful to have a more blanket term for instances where one person has multiple roles of that kind. You can always specify multiple 'role's in hCard to state that the person had more than one role. One cannot

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-06 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes And are groups/bands considered to be an organisation? Yes: foo class=fn orgPink Floyd/foo not least because the alternative: foo class=fnPink Floyd/foo would be optimised (sic) to have a given name of

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-06 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes would you say 'performer', 'creator' and 'composer' are roles and not different to being a contributor? They are all contributors, but they are sub-sets of the set of contributors (and hence are more granular). It would be

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-06 Thread Manu Sporny
Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Manu Sporny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes It would be useful to have a more blanket term for instances where one person has multiple roles of that kind. You can always specify multiple 'role's in hCard to state that the person had more than

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-06 Thread Guillaume Lebleu
Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes And are groups/bands considered to be an organisation? Yes: foo class=fn orgPink Floyd/foo not least because the alternative: foo class=fnPink Floyd/foo would be optimised

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-05 Thread Alf Eaton
Manu Sporny wrote: Alf Eaton wrote: It would work, but so would a number of very complicated things. My needs are essentially very simple: artistPrimal Scream/artist - albumScreamadelica/album so span class=creatorPrimal Scream/span - span class=albumScreamadelica/span Why doesn't the

RE: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-05 Thread Michael MD
Why doesn't the following work for you, then? div class=haudio span class=contributorPrimal Scream/span - span class=albumScreamadelica/span /div That may be fine for someone who just wants to mark up some tracks they like on a personal blog ... but an artist or record store may want to

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-05 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Guillaume Lebleu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Manu Sporny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes If you really want to make the distinction between a publisher, a drummer, a singer, a technician, and someone else, you can always

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-05 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Why doesn't the following work for you, then? div class=haudio span class=contributorPrimal Scream/span - span class=albumScreamadelica/span /div That may be fine for someone who just wants to mark up some tracks they

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-05 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Manu Sporny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Both the Beatles and Geoff Emerick contributed to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, for instance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt._Pepper%27s_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band but one is clearly more significant than the other.

RE: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-05 Thread Martin McEvoy
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 01:56 +1100, Michael MD wrote: Why doesn't the following work for you, then? div class=haudio span class=contributorPrimal Scream/span - span class=albumScreamadelica/span /div That may be fine for someone who just wants to mark up some tracks they like on

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-05 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin McEvoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 01:56 +1100, Michael MD wrote: Why doesn't the following work for you, then? div class=haudio span class=contributorPrimal Scream/span - span class=albumScreamadelica/span /div That may be fine

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-05 Thread Robert O'Rourke
Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin McEvoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 01:56 +1100, Michael MD wrote: Why doesn't the following work for you, then? div class=haudio span class=contributorPrimal Scream/span - span class=albumScreamadelica/span

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-05 Thread Manu Sporny
Alf Eaton wrote: The example above is valid hAudio markup - is your issue with the word contributor instead of creator? Basically, yes :-) And it's not a huge issue, I was just wondering if there was justification for it being that way - which there is, it seems. We're also tracking this

focus of microformats (was: Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor)

2008-02-05 Thread Guillaume Lebleu
Andy Mabbett wrote: Everything is an edge case, depending on which point you're looking from. I'm conceding that I'm looking at these natural language examples from a particular perspective, the economic one, to decide what is an edge case or not, and that I'm just assuming that this

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-05 Thread Martin McEvoy
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 16:41 +, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin McEvoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 01:56 +1100, Michael MD wrote: Why doesn't the following work for you, then? div class=haudio span class=contributorPrimal Scream/span

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-05 Thread Martin McEvoy
Hello Robert On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 18:39 +, Robert O'Rourke wrote: For cover tracks you'd have something like: span class=contributor vcard span class=roleOriginal Artist/span - span class=fn orgPrimal Scream/span /span Here is the best action I have seen using roles, It may

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-05 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes How about removing the 'contributor' class from the key creator's vcard? It would make sense to me to group contributors separately to the creator. The vcard attached to the hAudio would denote the original creator.

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-04 Thread Manu Sporny
Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Manu Sporny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes If only one contributor is listed, it is assumed that he/she/it is also the creator of the hAudio. If multiple contributors are listed, it is assumed that the first contributor is the creator, and all

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-04 Thread Manu Sporny
Andy Mabbett wrote: It seems strange that the microformat does not distinguish between the main contributor and others. It does - you list the main contributor first, if you care about that sort of thing. Otherwise, you can list them in any order. Both the Beatles and Geoff Emerick

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-04 Thread Manu Sporny
Alf Eaton wrote: It would work, but so would a number of very complicated things. My needs are essentially very simple: artistPrimal Scream/artist - albumScreamadelica/album so span class=creatorPrimal Scream/span - span class=albumScreamadelica/span Why doesn't the following work for

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-04 Thread Alf Eaton
Manu Sporny wrote: Alf Eaton wrote: How about this: * All contributors played a role in the creation of the audio. * If there's one or more creators, those entities played a primary role. We looked at that approach, and found that we didn't have the examples to back up the argument that we

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-04 Thread Manu Sporny
Alf Eaton wrote: How about this: * All contributors played a role in the creation of the audio. * If there's one or more creators, those entities played a primary role. We looked at that approach, and found that we didn't have the examples to back up the argument that we should make the

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Manu Sporny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Why doesn't the following work for you, then? div class=haudio span class=contributorPrimal Scream/span - span class=albumScreamadelica/span /div Per the hAudio spec, you have just marked up an album called Screamadelica,

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alf Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes If there really weren't enough examples that clearly listed anybody other than the creator, doesn't that make things easier? All that makes easier for me is the confidence to say that the evidence is too limited. -- Andy

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Manu Sporny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes If you really want to make the distinction between a publisher, a drummer, a singer, a technician, and someone else, you can always use an hCard and utilize the role property That presumes that the roles are exposed in the

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Manu Sporny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I thought fn was required. It isn't: http://microformats.org/wiki/haudio#Album You MUST use either FN or ALBUM, or both. Thank you. I've updated the cheatsheet: http://microformats.org/wiki/haudio-issues to make

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-04 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes If there are insufficient examples of composer being listed, that itself is evidence that the examples are inadequate: More to consider here: http://pianosociety.com/ (also an excellent place for genuinely free mp3s!)

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-04 Thread Manu Sporny
Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Manu Sporny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Why doesn't the following work for you, then? div class=haudio span class=contributorPrimal Scream/span - span class=albumScreamadelica/span /div Per the hAudio spec, you have just marked up an

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-04 Thread Guillaume Lebleu
Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Manu Sporny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes If you really want to make the distinction between a publisher, a drummer, a singer, a technician, and someone else, you can always use an hCard and utilize the role property That presumes that the roles

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-03 Thread Manu Sporny
Alf Eaton wrote: I was looking at using haudio today, but stumbled on the 'contributor' field: is there a reason it's 'contributor' rather than 'creator', even for the main creator (artist, in music) of the piece of audio? We decided to not use creator because it would not be the proper

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Manu Sporny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes If only one contributor is listed, it is assumed that he/she/it is also the creator of the hAudio. If multiple contributors are listed, it is assumed that the first contributor is the creator, and all subsequent contributors

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alf Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I was looking at using haudio today, but stumbled on the 'contributor' field: is there a reason it's 'contributor' rather than 'creator', even for the main creator (artist, in music) of the piece of audio? It seems strange that the

Re: [uf-discuss] haudio contributor

2008-02-03 Thread Alf Eaton
Manu Sporny wrote: Alf Eaton wrote: I was looking at using haudio today, but stumbled on the 'contributor' field: is there a reason it's 'contributor' rather than 'creator', even for the main creator (artist, in music) of the piece of audio? We decided to not use creator because it would not