[uf-discuss] Microformats Meetup in Edinburgh
There are several opportunities to get together for a microformat meetup while in Edinburgh that our also outside of www2006 (for all those who can't afford the time or price of the conference). BOF for microformats http://www2006.org/wiki/w/Microformats_BoF Refresh Edinburgh http://refreshedinburgh.org/ -brian Stephen Farrell wrote: Speaking of Edinburgh... are there plans for a uf meetup there, or is there a uf session? brian suda wrote: Chris Messina wrote: Yup -- in fact, why don't qe just roll in the mf meetup idea into mush? Suda, that means you! --- what did i get volunteer for? i'm at xtech in amsterdam at the moment and will be up in Edinburgh next week. -brian See y'all tonight! Chris On 5/17/06, David Janes -- BlogMatrix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought Tara was tiring you out bringing you to clubs all hours of the night [1]? Alas, I have an early evening engagement. Are you going to Mush [2]? Regards, etc... David [1] http://www.horsepigcow.com/2006/05/jazz-in-tdot.html [2] http://www.whatswiththat.ca/mush/ Chris Messina wrote: Anyone up for a brief microformats meetup tomorrow around 6pm in Toronto? Chris ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
[uf-discuss] CFP microformat?
Hi all, I'd like to start some discussion into a call-for-papers microformat. Here's the problem to solve: Publications at conferences are important for many academics' careers. Keeping track of submission and event dates and locations - and time zones - is important. Doing that with less effort would be a big improvement. Right now most CFP's are distributed by email and posted on the conference web site in a lightly marked-up version of the email. Possibly the most common way to find out about conference details is to forwarded a CFP email by one's advisor, who gets spammed regularly with those emails. There are problems with that system - email loss, no good filter (there are bogus conferences), checking for deadline updates is common, and manual. A microformat to mark up calls for papers could make it easier for authors to find conferences they're interested in, keep track of them, and plan publications. It could make it much easier to publicize conferences, which now involves manually* submitting to various databases and finding appropriate mailing lists to spam. I already have a few examples and some notes on what they have in common - it's not too complex - but I wanted to put this idea out before I went ahead and created a wiki page, in case someone can suggest a more general solution that would work better. One note is that it certainly isn't just an hEvent - a CFP usually contains at least a description, a list of related topic keywords, at least two date ranges, and information about several people and institutions. So, what do you think, folks? -mike * manually in this context may just mean manually telling your grad students to do it, but still... -- Michael McCracken UCSD CSE PhD Candidate research: http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/~mmccrack/ misc: http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/ ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
[uf-discuss] RDFa
A W3C Working Draft published on May 16th: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xhtml-rdfa-primer-20060516/ For Embedding RDF in XHTML. Gives iCal and vCard examples. In practice, there's a bit mark-up involved than with µF (namespace declarations for a start) but seems to acheive much the same thing in the end. One interesting thing to note is the use of the META element for embedding computer-readible data, e.g. meta property=cal:dtstart content=20060508T1000-0500May 8th at 10am/meta Has this ever been considered for Microformats? It seems especially relevant given the recent uncertainty regarding ABBR/@TITLE and accessibility tools. I have to admit, I've never seen META used outside the HEAD and never even considered it as valid. Could it be a viable alternative (if it's considered that an alternative is ever needed). Regards, Ben ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
Re: [uf-discuss] CFP microformat?
Hi Mike, While this is starting to feel less like a general (80%) and more like a vertical (20%) application/use case, having had to deal with CFPs myself, I'm certainly sympathetic. I'd say to start with, compile a list of URLs to examples of CFPs on the web so we can start to document the actual common elements in use in real-world CFPs. Whether or not we end up with a microformat, documenting common CFP publishing behaviors is likely to be beneficial. Thanks, Tantek On 5/19/06 5:24 PM, Michael McCracken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'd like to start some discussion into a call-for-papers microformat. Here's the problem to solve: Publications at conferences are important for many academics' careers. Keeping track of submission and event dates and locations - and time zones - is important. Doing that with less effort would be a big improvement. Right now most CFP's are distributed by email and posted on the conference web site in a lightly marked-up version of the email. Possibly the most common way to find out about conference details is to forwarded a CFP email by one's advisor, who gets spammed regularly with those emails. There are problems with that system - email loss, no good filter (there are bogus conferences), checking for deadline updates is common, and manual. A microformat to mark up calls for papers could make it easier for authors to find conferences they're interested in, keep track of them, and plan publications. It could make it much easier to publicize conferences, which now involves manually* submitting to various databases and finding appropriate mailing lists to spam. I already have a few examples and some notes on what they have in common - it's not too complex - but I wanted to put this idea out before I went ahead and created a wiki page, in case someone can suggest a more general solution that would work better. One note is that it certainly isn't just an hEvent - a CFP usually contains at least a description, a list of related topic keywords, at least two date ranges, and information about several people and institutions. So, what do you think, folks? -mike * manually in this context may just mean manually telling your grad students to do it, but still... ___ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
