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

2007-07-03 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 6/30/07 7:11 AM, Jeremy Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

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

2007-07-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes p class=vcard vevent span class=fn summaryCharles Darwin/span was born on abbr title=1809-02-12 class=dtstart bdayFebruary 12, 1809/abbr and died on abbr title=1882-04-19 class=dtendApril 19,1882/ abbr. /p Otherwise,

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

2007-07-03 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Tue, July 3, 2007 09:25, Andy Mabbett wrote: p class=vcard vevent span class=fn summaryCharles Darwin/span was born on abbr title=1809-02-12 class=dtstart bdayFebruary 12, 1809/abbr and died on abbr title=1882-04-19 class=dtendApril 19,1882/ abbr. /p Do we really think this method is

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

2007-07-01 Thread James O'Donnell
On 30 Jun 2007, at 15:11, Jeremy Keith wrote: 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

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

2007-07-01 Thread Jeremy Keith
Jim asked: p class=hcard vevent span class=fn summaryCharles Darwin/span was born on abbr title=1809-02-12 class=dtstart bdayFebruary 12, 1809/abbr and died on abbr title=1882-04-19 class=dtendApril 19,1882/abbr. /p I don't quite understand - I can see that April 19, 1882 is the

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 be

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

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

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

2007-06-28 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes For some of these I see quite a bit of utility (e.g. gender is often used in social network searches - an actual application in common use), whereas others seem to be merely driven by sense of semantic publishing

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

2007-06-28 Thread Benjamin West
On 6/28/07, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes For some of these I see quite a bit of utility (e.g. gender is often used in social network searches - an actual application in common use), whereas others seem to be merely

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

2007-06-28 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 6/28/07 11:27 AM, Benjamin West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/28/07, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes For some of these I see quite a bit of utility (e.g. gender is often used in social network searches - an actual

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

2007-06-28 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes For some of these I see quite a bit of utility (e.g. gender is often used in social network searches - an actual application in common use), whereas others seem to be merely driven by sense of semantic publishing completeness

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

2007-06-28 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Benjamin West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On the contrary; you have been presented with evidence *and* use cases for date-of-death more than once; not least in the first post in this thread. Andy, I'm not sure which evidence you are referring to. Not least: