Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Ryan King
On Apr 24, 2006, at 8:18 PM, Xiaoming Liu wrote: Hi, I am joining the discussion with background of library system. I don't think the definition of UID completely matches URI. The globally unique identifier has a flavour of UUID, as the example in vcard.

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 4/24/06 7:56 PM, Etan Wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Third, I actually see disadvantages in using URIs as a basic unit rather than URLs. All URLs are URIs. What have I missed? The opposite. The fact that not all URIs are URLs. That's the point. You can infer things about a URL in

Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up

2006-04-25 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 4/24/06 8:09 PM, Benjamin Carlyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 23:39 +0100, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alf Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes How would you see that sitting inside HTML mark-up? abbr class=uri title=urn:isbn:09507881200 9507881-2-0/abbr

Re: [uf-discuss] uid microformats?

2006-04-25 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 4/24/06 7:50 PM, Etan Wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tantek Çelik wrote to the Microformats Discuss mailing list on 2006-04-19 in a message with a title like ³[uf-discuss] UID, URL, live microformats (was: Microformat auto-discovery WAS: Plazes Microformats)² (mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 25, 2006, at 9:21 AM, Tantek Çelik wrote: The closest thing to UIDs that current publishers of hCards are publishing are their unique URLs within their sites (e.g. Upcoming and Eventful venues and events). I have a concern that using URLs as UIDs will prevent them from being

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Tantek Çelik
First of all, Welcome Xiaoming Liu! On 4/25/06 8:19 AM, Xiaoming Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Ryan King wrote: URLs, if used propertly can be sufficient for globalby unique identifier[s]. Sure, you can mess things up by using a non-routeable address or scheme, but

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Atamido
Tantek Çelik wrote: I think the case for ISBN is no big difference from telephone number or zip code, etc. The average person knows, understands, and uses telephone numbers and zip codes all the time. The same cannot be said about ISBN. This is a big difference. The average person does not

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Xiaoming Liu
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Tantek Çelik wrote: Please list the specific problems you've found with UID or URL, so we can make sure they are documented and properly explored/resolved. Thanks for taking into consideration. First hopefully we all agree on the problem to be addressed here, I think

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 4/25/06 12:01 PM, Xiaoming Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Tantek Çelik wrote: Please list the specific problems you've found with UID or URL, so we can make sure they are documented and properly explored/resolved. Thanks for taking into consideration. First

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 25, 2006, Tantek Çelik wrote: We *want* resources that can be identified by network location and thus a system that shows a bias *for* that is a *good* thing. Is the proposal that UIDs SHOULD be URLs or UIDs MUST be URLs? If it's MUST, that would seem to discourage use of

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
On 4/25/06, Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/25/06 12:01 PM, Xiaoming Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First hopefully we all agree on the problem to be addressed here, I think it is a microformat for indicating something *is* an identifier, and I will presume there are three

Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up

2006-04-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I'm very concerned that that may be an abuse of abbr; and wonder how it will sound when read to someone using assistive software? This is a common misconception[1] about the title attribute. [1]

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I think the case for ISBN is no big difference from telephone number or zip code, etc. The average person knows, understands, and uses telephone numbers and zip codes all the time. The same cannot be said about ISBN.

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 4/25/06 2:41 PM, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I think the case for ISBN is no big difference from telephone number or zip code, etc. The average person knows, understands, and uses telephone numbers and zip

Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up

2006-04-25 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 4/25/06 2:38 PM, Andy Mabbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I'm very concerned that that may be an abuse of abbr; and wonder how it will sound when read to someone using assistive software? This is a common misconception[1]

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Ross Singer
Tantek, Your responses and your reply about 'letting the market decide' what gets to survive on the web makes me think that your attitude about microformats is: Microformats are for commercial-purposes first and foremost. Everything else is an edge case that can be dismissed. And, quite

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 4/25/06 3:04 PM, Ross Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tantek, Your responses and your reply about 'letting the market decide' what gets to survive on the web makes me think that your attitude about microformats is: Microformats are for commercial-purposes first and foremost. Not

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 4/25/06 1:35 PM, Scott Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 25, 2006, Tantek Çelik wrote: We *want* resources that can be identified by network location and thus a system that shows a bias *for* that is a *good* thing. Is the proposal that UIDs SHOULD be URLs or UIDs MUST be URLs?

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Xiaoming Liu
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Tantek Çelik wrote: ISO8601 is fairly well accepted. The battle is over. So we pick the current winner and go with it. Whereas, as you point out, the market for abstract ids, whether ISBN, pubmed, or whatever is still churning away, so we let it continue to churn. I

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 4/25/06 3:25 PM, Xiaoming Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Tantek Çelik wrote: ISO8601 is fairly well accepted. The battle is over. So we pick the current winner and go with it. Whereas, as you point out, the market for abstract ids, whether ISBN, pubmed, or

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Xiaoming Liu
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Tantek Çelik wrote: With URI you got all these things free, and you don't have to argue about persistentence or uniqueness (which are hollow without concrete schema/mechanism), it's much simpler to directly reference URI RFC. True. My point is that URL is preferable

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Bruce D'Arcus
On 4/25/06, Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It may be stronger, but it's problematic in many cases. Then we postpone those cases and focus on the ones that work now. Except that the thread that got merged into the uid one was, in fact, about marking up isbns and such, which is one of

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 4/25/06 4:47 PM, Bruce D'Arcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I like Xiaoming's suggestion. Cool. Please add that comment (with your name/WikiAlias) to Xiaoming's proposal on the uid-brainstorming page. Thanks, Tantek ___ microformats-discuss

Re: [uf-discuss] Chat microformat/podcast transcript

2006-04-25 Thread Jude Robinson
Chris Messina wrote: On 4/12/06, Jude Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be appropriate to add this to http://microformats.org/wiki/chat-examples under a tentative *might be relevant to chat* podcast transcripts heading? Sure. It's a kind of chat... though I wonder if there isn't some

Re: [uf-discuss] hCalendar - every week event

2006-04-25 Thread Michael MD
re: http://www.dgabcsolutions.com.br/preview/camarascs/cm_home.asp Is it actually allowed to have a hcalendar event without a date? If so that could be a problem .. I think in the parser I want to put together that will have to be a requirement. (even for recurring events there must be some kind

Re: [uf-discuss] hCalendar - every week event

2006-04-25 Thread Scott Reynen
On Apr 25, 2006, at 8:59 PM, Michael MD wrote: re: http://www.dgabcsolutions.com.br/preview/camarascs/cm_home.asp Is it actually allowed to have a hcalendar event without a date? If so that could be a problem .. I think in the parser I want to put together that will have to be a requirement.

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Ross Singer
On 4/25/06, Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, we get things done because we dismiss the 20% in favor of getting the 80% working well. Except, in this case, you've dismissed the entire problem that we're trying to solve here by merging into some only quasi-related 80% case. I would

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Edward Summers
On Apr 25, 2006, at 6:47 PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: FWIW, I like Xiaoming's suggestion. I'm glad Xiaoming expressed the case for URI so well. I just added it to the uid-brainstorming [1] page. I have to admit I've seen the need for a identifying URIs elsewhere and when Tantek pinged

Re: uid microformats? (was Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up)

2006-04-25 Thread Joe Andrieu
Hello. I'm new to microformats and a bit confused on how one disambiguates microformat names. It seems to be somewhat related to the UID/URI issue. I'm not sure I understand all of the subtleties between the spec and proposals around these concepts, so I may misuse some of these terms. I'll

Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up

2006-04-25 Thread Karl Dubost
Le 06-04-22 à 18:56, Andy Mabbett a écrit : In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bruce D'Arcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes ISBN is a registered URN, so I'd rather see coding that supported that; e.g. urn:isbn:0950788120. How would you see that sitting inside HTML mark-up? blockquote

Re: [uf-discuss] ISBN mark-up

2006-04-25 Thread Karl Dubost
Le 06-04-23 à 12:52, Alf Eaton a écrit : On 22 Apr 2006, at 05:56, Andy Mabbett wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bruce D'Arcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes ISBN is a registered URN, so I'd rather see coding that supported that; e.g. urn:isbn:0950788120. How would you see that sitting