[uf-discuss] Pingerati

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Kinlan

Hi,

Has anybody had any luck getting technorati to send pingerati pings to
a service.  I have asked to get hCard Requests to my web-site so that
I can do some analysis but I have had no response for over a week
about the progress of my request.

I also have another question or two:
How are people proactivly processing Microformats?
Do you crawl the Internet?
Or do you use other services like Pingerati?
 If you do use other services what do you use?

Kind Regards,
Paul Kinlan
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Re: [uf-discuss] Pingerati

2006-08-29 Thread Scott Reynen

On Aug 29, 2006, at 6:19 AM, Paul Kinlan wrote:


Has anybody had any luck getting technorati to send pingerati pings to
a service.  I have asked to get hCard Requests to my web-site so that
I can do some analysis but I have had no response for over a week
about the progress of my request.


I also sent a request, probably a month ago, to get pings from  
Pingerati and have not yet received a response.  I've been too  
distracted by other projects to ask about it on the #technorati IRC  
channel, but that would be my next step.  This list might also work.



I also have another question or two:
How are people proactivly processing Microformats?
Do you crawl the Internet?


Yes.


Or do you use other services like Pingerati?


I'd like to.


 If you do use other services what do you use?


I'm still crawling for microformats here, though depending on what  
kind of input I get from Pingerati, I may stop doing that in a future  
incarnation:


http://www.randomchaos.com/microformats/base/

Results are in hAtom, so you should be able to consume that easily  
with any hAtom parser.  If you're looking for hCards, here's every  
URL I've found to contain hCards (likely slow to load, as it's not a  
paged list):


http://www.randomchaos.com/microformats/base/?key=vcard

But I'm sure Technorati has a lot more, and I'm not doing any sort of  
pinging.


Peace,
Scott
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Re: [uf-discuss] vcard fn for name in A. B. Smith format

2006-08-29 Thread Bruce D'Arcus

On 8/28/06, Brian Suda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Good Question Andy, you have several potential quirks with the string
A. B. Smith.

I am assuming 'A' is an abberiviation for a first name? 'B' is a
middle name, and 'Smith' is the last name you can do the following:


Yeah, but I don't think you can asssume that. Better to just treat A.
B. as the given-name string.

Bruce
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Re: [uf-discuss] vcard fn for name in A. B. Smith format

2006-08-29 Thread Ciaran McNulty

On 8/29/06, Bruce D'Arcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I am assuming 'A' is an abberiviation for a first name? 'B' is a
 middle name, and 'Smith' is the last name you can do the following:



On 8/28/06, Brian Suda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, but I don't think you can asssume that. Better to just treat A.
B. as the given-name string.


That's a good point, there are quite a few people whose given name is
their 'middle' name, it could be A. Brian Smith or Anthony B. Smith,
you can't necessarily assume.

-Ciaran
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Re: [uf-discuss] vcard fn for name in A. B. Smith format

2006-08-29 Thread Bruce D'Arcus

On 8/29/06, Ciaran McNulty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


That's a good point, there are quite a few people whose given name is
their 'middle' name, it could be A. Brian Smith or Anthony B. Smith,
you can't necessarily assume.


Exactly. Middle name is a silly concept in the real world,
particularly when you get beyond North America and maybe parts of
Wstern Europe.

One of the things I think vCard got right is that the name model is
quite international-friendly. It does not assume anything in
particular about the relation between sort order and name part type.
It's why there's no first/last/middle structures, and why they have
the sort-string property.

Bruce
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Re: [uf-discuss] vcard fn for name in A. B. Smith format

2006-08-29 Thread Andy Mabbett
In message
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian
Suda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes

vcard for someone whose name is given as A. B. Smith.

Good Question Andy, you have several potential quirks with the string
A. B. Smith.

[...]

We need to explicitly mark-up what each portion of
the string means.

div class=vcard
span class=fn n
span class=given-nameA/span.
span class=additional-nameB/span.
span class=family-nameSmith/span
/span
/div

My name can be written as A. J. Mabbett, but my given name isn't A,
nor is J one of my names.

(On the other hand, I could legally change my name to A. J., or to A
J or AJ, if I so chose).

This gives explicit meaning to all the portions of the name and will
import into your address book just fine, but there is abit more
semantics we can add.

div class=vcard
span class=fn n
abbr title=Andy class=given-nameA/abbr.
abbr title=Brian class=additional-nameB/abbr .
span class=family-nameSmith/span
/span
/div

In this case, I have no idea what the A  B stand for.

I hope this helps

It has given me food for thought, thanks.

I suppose I could use:

div class=vcard
span class=fn n
A. B.
span class=family-nameSmith/span
/span
/div


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Re: [uf-discuss] Ordered Lists

2006-08-29 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar

Hi Paul,

On Aug 29, 2006, at 9:06 AM, Paul Kinlan wrote:


Hi,

This is going to sound pretty trivial, and I hope that no one minds me
asking this.

I am looking for a way to do Top 10's.  I don't want to suggest a
Microformat or anything for this.  But I was wondering if anyone has
experience in parsing Lists of information.

My first thought is to make a parser look for OL XHTML elements and
then work off that, perhaps using the title attribute to determine the
topic of the ordered list.


Yeah, that absolutely sounds like the right way to go.  I'm not quite  
clear on what you're using 'title' for, though.  Do you have multiple  
lists per page, and need a way to differentiate the title of the list  
from the title of the page?


-- Ernie P.




Would people be able to suggest other ways they would consider looking
for ordered information.  i.e do you think that there would be any
semantic meaning to the posistion of elements in an xoxo formatted
listing or OPML.

Kind Regards,
Paul Kinlan
http://www.kinlan.co.uk
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Re: [uf-discuss] Ordered Lists

2006-08-29 Thread Paul Kinlan

Yeah,  I would like to be able to understand what the list is about,
so something like a title would give a good descriptive meaning to
what the items in the list relate to.

For instance the title could be Favorite Films, obviously the LI's
would then be order of the favorites.

Title was one of the only attributes that I thought could be used to
determine what the list is about.  I was also initially thinking about
putting a class attribute saying something like positive or
negative for the ordering of the elements in the list.

It is just that I would like to be able to write a progam that can
parse lists of information that has a meaning so that I can merge more
than one list together.

Obviously OL, LI inferes a kind of semantic meaning, and I could
already use the OL's without getting everyone to adopt a new format
such as rel=tag etc.

I am just looking into ideas and trying to see if people already do
this kind of thing.

Kind Regards,
Paul Kinlan


On 29/08/06, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi Paul,

On Aug 29, 2006, at 9:06 AM, Paul Kinlan wrote:

 Hi,

 This is going to sound pretty trivial, and I hope that no one minds me
 asking this.

 I am looking for a way to do Top 10's.  I don't want to suggest a
 Microformat or anything for this.  But I was wondering if anyone has
 experience in parsing Lists of information.

 My first thought is to make a parser look for OL XHTML elements and
 then work off that, perhaps using the title attribute to determine the
 topic of the ordered list.

Yeah, that absolutely sounds like the right way to go.  I'm not quite
clear on what you're using 'title' for, though.  Do you have multiple
lists per page, and need a way to differentiate the title of the list
from the title of the page?

-- Ernie P.



 Would people be able to suggest other ways they would consider looking
 for ordered information.  i.e do you think that there would be any
 semantic meaning to the posistion of elements in an xoxo formatted
 listing or OPML.

 Kind Regards,
 Paul Kinlan
 http://www.kinlan.co.uk
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Re: [uf-discuss] Ordered Lists

2006-08-29 Thread Dr. Ernie Prabhakar

Hi Paul,

On Aug 29, 2006, at 10:11 AM, Paul Kinlan wrote:

Yeah,  I would like to be able to understand what the list is about,
so something like a title would give a good descriptive meaning to
what the items in the list relate to.

For instance the title could be Favorite Films, obviously the LI's
would then be order of the favorites.



As far as I can tell, that is a perfectly appropriate use of the  
title attribute.


http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol6/html_no1.htm

It does lead to some redundancy between the human-readable caption  
(which presumably is in an H1 or whatever), but it does seem to serve  
your purpose.


Anybody else have an opinion?

-enp



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Re: [uf-discuss] Problems with hReview Creator?

2006-08-29 Thread Ryan King

On Aug 28, 2006, at 11:43 AM, Ryan King wrote:

On Aug 27, 2006, at 3:20 PM, Brian Suda wrote:


I have been working alot recently on hReviews and have been strugling
to find valid data - now i think i know why.

I believe there is an error in the output of the hReview Creator[1].
According to hReview specification[2] it says:
... However, when using item info subproperties (fn, url,
photo), they MUST be nested inside the item element.

To me that reads that an class=fn should be nested inside the  
class=item

h2 class=itemspan class=fnFlux capacitor/span/h2

The output from the hReview Creator is:
h2 class=item fnFlux capacitor/h2

If this is an error it might explain why so many examples in the  
wild are not conformant.


Um, yeah. That would be my mistake. I'll fix it today.


Fixed.

-ryan
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[uf-discuss] Article: The Big Picture on Microformats

2006-08-29 Thread Gazza

http://www.digital-web.com/articles/the_big_picture_on_microformats/
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[uf-discuss] Citation: next steps?

2006-08-29 Thread Michael McCracken

Hi, aside from adding a few good examples of existing formats, it
looks like there hasn't been any movement toward the Aug 30 deadline
for hCite 0.1. Should we reschedule the goal?

Also, what is the immediate next step on the path to a recommendation?
Do we need to clarify the existing research on the wiki? Is anyone
waiting for an answer or agreement before moving forward?

Thanks,
-mike

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[uf-discuss] Citation: experiences parsing DC metadata

2006-08-29 Thread Michael McCracken

Hi, from recent list discussion I discovered that archives using
EPrints.org had Dublin Core metadata in meta tags on individual item
pages. I posted those examples to the wiki, and then implemented
support for importing that metadata into BibDesk. See this post for
details and a movie, once it uploads:
http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/?p=63

I'm pretty happy with the feature. But I still want a microformat for
inline citations.

I'm goning to share a couple of quick impressions from getting
something working with Dublin Core terms. What I did was translate the
available terms into BibTeX, which in this case is what is necessary
to make it useful for someone who wants to cite the item in a new
paper.

1. DC terms for creator and contributor don't map clearly to author
and editor, at least not according to the DC standadrd. Maybe there's
some convention about how it's usually done, but I couldn't find it.
IMO, 'author' and 'editor' make more sense, and that's probably
because that's how everything else I'm familiar with does it (except
for the super-thorough MARC relator scheme [marcrel], which I don't
think is author-friendly).

2. The DC type term, even though it was a little vague, was very
useful for my purposes - any serious citation database is going to
want to distinguish types, and it makes it a lot easier to import in a
usable manner. If it doesn't have a type, I default to the BibTeX
misc type, and that's an acceptable fallback. I think a good
microformat should allow specifying the type of an entry, but should
not require it. There are situations where the type won't be
available, and since there is probably a reasonable generic fallback
for any consumer to use, some data is better than getting none because
the format requires a type.

If this sounds right, it means we need to discuss what a reasonable
choice for allowable citation types is.

The BibTeX format allows any type, and leaves it to the consumer (a
style file) to figure out what to do with types it doesn't understand
(commonly just ignored).

It looks like Dublin Core also allows arbitrary values for the type
attribute but recommends you choose from the DC type vocabulary
[dctv], which has very little overlap with BibTeX's types - the DCTV
covers things BibTeX doesn't like Event, Dataset, and MovingImage,
while most of the standard BibTeX types would be classified simply as
Text. The Eprints sites I looked at went their own way, and I just
tried to cover everything they let you search for.

What does everyone think about types?

Thanks,
-mike

[dctv]:http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-type-vocabulary/
[marcrel]:http://www.loc.gov/marc/sourcecode/relator/relatorlist.html

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[uf-discuss] How's my hReview?

2006-08-29 Thread Andy Mabbett

Here's my first stab at marking up one of my reviews with hReview:

http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/reviews/WarksBirding2005.htm

how does it look?

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Re: [uf-discuss] Citation: next steps?

2006-08-29 Thread Brian Suda

Hello Mike, thanks for bringing this up.

I spent a good portion of the weekend looking at my earlier straw
proposal. I started to create an XMDP file and took the examples
listed on the wiki and attempted to mark them-up with the citation
microformat. This would help to find any deficiencies.

The 3 main points i came across so far are:
1) IDENTIFIERS
2) FORMAT TYPES
3) NESTING

1) In hCard/hCalendar there is a UID field. Added with URL it makes
for a great unique identifier. There are loads of other identifers
besides URL, ISBN, LOC call number, SKU, ISSN, etc. Many of these are
unique in their domain, but not globally unique. So how to they get
marked-up? Much like the hCard TEL/ADR properties, we can use
something like:
div class=uidspan class=typeISBN/span: span
class=value123456/span/div
This makes the encoding the most extensible... if we start use
class=isbn then it is an enumerated list, with class=type it is
open ended.

2) I keep mis-using format, format is the medium - hardback,
softback. The TYPE (there probably is a better word - container?) is
book, article, conference, manifesto, etc. Much like the identifers we
can make an enumerated list of values, class=book, class=article,
but that boxes us in, whereas something like: span
class=typearticle/span leaves things more open.

3) Nesting citation data in a citation. The ability to nest the same
microformat inside itself is something that other microformats don't
explicitly handle.

The two options are:
i) Using class=book
div class=hcite
 div class=book
  span class=fnBook Title/span
  div class=chapter
 span class=fnChapter Title/span
  /div
 /div
/div

This makes things easy to nest and to figure out exactly what is
associated with what, but the downside is that we have enumerated
lists of values for the class properties.

ii) using the TYPE for book
div class=hcite
 div class=typebook/div
 span class=fnBook Title/span
 div class=typechapter/div
 span class=fnChapter Title/span
/div

now the class=fn is not nested inside the class=book or
class=chapter so there would have to be some other mechanism to
associate the data with the type.

This is just a brief summary of the outstanding issues. I have been
quite busy with other things, and i'm not sure exactly how or where to
proceed? I have a feeling the citation discussion is pretty heavy and
i don't want to waste people's time with all the back and forth
messages on the mailing list - it is high traffic enough already...
the wiki is nice, but not everyone keeps a close eye on it... IRC is
another option. We've done 'meet-ups' in the past and they worked
fairly well? so i'll leave it up to others on where/how we should
proceed. maybe like the REST mailing list we need to spin off a
temporary citations mailing list? (although that means YAML, Yet
Another Mailing List)

I am still working on exactly WHAT we are proceeding on. I'll be
offline for the next few days due to traveling, so a deadline of the
30th is probably not realistic. I am certainly open to suggestions.

-brian

On 8/29/06, Michael McCracken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi, aside from adding a few good examples of existing formats, it
looks like there hasn't been any movement toward the Aug 30 deadline
for hCite 0.1. Should we reschedule the goal?

Also, what is the immediate next step on the path to a recommendation?
Do we need to clarify the existing research on the wiki? Is anyone
waiting for an answer or agreement before moving forward?

Thanks,
-mike

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Re: [uf-discuss] Citation: next steps?

2006-08-29 Thread Bruce D'Arcus

On 8/29/06, Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


This is a good summary to date and deserving of being captured on the
citation-brainstorming page.


I agree. I think the fundmental last hump to get over is the choice
between a largely monolithic and flat BibTeX-like approach, and a more
modular and relational DC-like approach. The choice is crtiical
because it has significant implications to the flexibility of hCite.

On the nesting example, though, this would be the more typical case
(chapter in a book, rather than vice versa), and one could forego
typing:

div class=hcite
div class=chapter
 span class=titleChapter Title/span
 div class=isPartOf
span class=titleBook Title/span
 /div
/div
/div

To me typing is nice, but not critical, paricularly if the rest of the
data is sound.

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Re: [uf-discuss] Citation: next steps?

2006-08-29 Thread Michael McCracken

Bruce, do you have a canonical example that gets at exactly what you
mean by monolithic and flat vs. modular and relational? I think I used
to understand what you meant by those, but I want to be sure. Please
bear with me on this, I know I asked you a similar question a while
back, but I think that what you're asking for is actually not as
complicated as it may sound.

Do you just mean the ability to mark up a relation between two citation items?

For instance, if BibTeX had a convention of things like this:

@inbook{chapterkey,
title=chapter 1,
cites=articlekey,article2key,...,
partof=bookkey}

@book{bookkey,
title=book}

@article{articlekey,
title=article}
etc...

Would you consider that relational? That kind of thing fulfills what I
think you want, but I'd like to know if you're talking about something
else too.

ISTR that you've also described BibTeX's model as flat because author
names in BibTeX are somewhat underspecified, but since a citation
microformat will use hCard, that's not an issue here, right?

Thanks,
-mike

On 8/29/06, Bruce D'Arcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On 8/29/06, Tantek Çelik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 This is a good summary to date and deserving of being captured on the
 citation-brainstorming page.

I agree. I think the fundmental last hump to get over is the choice
between a largely monolithic and flat BibTeX-like approach, and a more
modular and relational DC-like approach. The choice is crtiical
because it has significant implications to the flexibility of hCite.

On the nesting example, though, this would be the more typical case
(chapter in a book, rather than vice versa), and one could forego
typing:

div class=hcite
 div class=chapter
  span class=titleChapter Title/span
  div class=isPartOf
 span class=titleBook Title/span
  /div
 /div
/div

To me typing is nice, but not critical, paricularly if the rest of the
data is sound.

Bruce
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Re: [uf-discuss] How's my hReview?

2006-08-29 Thread Brian Suda

It is not a valid review yet, you are missing a few things. The
following is a snippit of the site.

div class=hreview
h1West Midland Bird Club/h1
h2 id=content class=item'Warwickshire Birding 2005', by Steve Seal/h2
p class=centerDVDbrpound;5.99/p

div class=pic-rightimg class=photo
src=../images/biblio/WarksBirding2005.jpg width=250 height=455
alt= title=cover of Warwickshire Birding 2005/div

div class=description.../div
/div

You correctly have the class=hreview, nested inside that there is a
class=item (you'd be suprised how many reviews don't actualy have an
item being reviewed!)

The problem is that there is no class=fn nested in the class=item.
There are a few ways to fix this.
A) just add an FN inside the H2.
h2 id=content class=itemspan class=fn'Warwickshire Birding
2005', by Steve Seal/span/h2

B) create an outer div container. You have a class=photo which is
another hReview property - assuming you are actually intending that to
be part of the hReview, that needs to be nested inside the
class=item as well.

div class=hreview
 div class=item
   h1West Midland Bird Club/h1
   h2 id=content class=fn'Warwickshire Birding 2005', by Steve Seal/h2
   p class=centerDVDbrpound;5.99/p
   div class=pic-rightimg class=photo
src=../images/biblio/WarksBirding2005.jpg width=250 height=455
alt= title=cover of Warwickshire Birding 2005/div
 /div !-- ends item --
div class=description.../div
/div

There is no RATING, which is OK that is optional, but IMHO that is
kinda the point of a review.

finnaly, the reviewer hCard is also incorrect:
p id=creditspan class=reviewer vcard fnAndy Mabbett/spanbr
span class=dtreviewed title=200603March 2006/span/p

you need to nest the class=fn inside the class=vcard
p id=credit class=reviewer vcardspan class=fnAndy Mabbett/spanbr
span class=dtreviewed title=200603March 2006/span/p

i hope this helps. If you make those changes let us know and we can
take another pass at it and see if there are any other errors.

-brian

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Here's my first stab at marking up one of my reviews with hReview:

http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/reviews/WarksBirding2005.htm

how does it look?

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[uf-discuss] OpenSearch

2006-08-29 Thread Ted Drake
Hi All
It's slightly off topic, but I thought I'd share my latest post about how we
added the OpenSearch protocol to the Yahoo! Tech site. This open protocol
lets you define how your web site's search engine works and then activates
the personal search box in IE7 and Firefox 2. It also helps the aggregating
search engines, such as A9.

http://www.last-child.com/add-opensearch-to-your-web-site/

Sorry if it is too off-topic.

Ted Drake
Yahoo! Tech
 


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Re: [uf-discuss] OpenSearch

2006-08-29 Thread David Janes

This looks very possible. In particular,

(1) according the article, Yahoo only returns its results in HTML, so
we know HTML is good
(2) one could add an extra field to the OpenSearch XML (a description
file about how your results are returned) indicating that the file is
hAtom
(3) parties not understanding hAtom can just display HTML
(4) parties wating to understand hAtom can do it themselves or use a webservice

When I was at MashupCamp in January (Feb?) there was a guy from
A9/OpenSearch very interested in mashup type applications and
developer feedback so there's a door open for us.

I'll also note that his WordPress integration problem will probably go
away if we did this, as an independent XML-feed result will not have
to be returned;

Regards, etc...
David
http://blogmatrix.blogmatrix.com

On 8/30/06, Scott Reynen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Aug 29, 2006, at 10:23 PM, Ted Drake wrote:

 It's slightly off topic, but I thought I'd share my latest post
 about how we
 added the OpenSearch protocol to the Yahoo! Tech site. This open
 protocol
 lets you define how your web site's search engine works and then
 activates
 the personal search box in IE7 and Firefox 2. It also helps the
 aggregating
 search engines, such as A9.

 http://www.last-child.com/add-opensearch-to-your-web-site/

 Sorry if it is too off-topic.

I'm not sure this is off-topic at all.  I think OpenSearch solves a
problem by extending RSS that microformats could solve by extending
HTML, possibly hAtom specifically.  The problem is identifying search
results for reuse in aggregation, reformatting, etc.  The use cases
are obvious as there are plenty of applications that already reuse
this type of data and could benefit from a standard format for
already published search results (A9, OS X Sherlock, etc.), there's
certainly no shortage of search results on the web to use as real-
world examples from the general web searches to very narrow-focus
searches, and between hAtom and OpenSearch, I suspect most of the
work is already done.  hSearch?
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Peace,
Scott
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