[microformats-discuss] Re: playlist microformat

Sat Sep 3 08:12:44 PDT 2005

On 9/2/05 2:03 PM, "Lucas Gonze" <lucas.gonze at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/1/05, Lucas Gonze <lucas.gonze at gmail.com> wrote:
>> XMDP profile for HTML playlists, derived from XSPF:
>> http://gonze.com/microformats/xspfxmdp.html
>>>> "hPlaylist"
>> I have done a bunch of updates on that document to make it correct
> XMDP and, hopefully, a useful spec. Any ideas on where to take it
> next are welcome.

Lucas,
This is a wonderful simplification / easily readable description of XSPF.
Thanks for taking the time to provide the XMDP/microformat equivalent of
XSPF. I think this will be very useful for discussions.
It might be interesting to add the XSPF field names to in a column in these
tables (which perhaps need to be harmonized into one "media metadata
comparison" table, rather than one specific for podcasts, and one specific
for video):
http://microformats.org/wiki/media-metadata-examples#Comparison_Table
http://microformats.org/wiki/video-metadata-model#Compatibility_Table
I know that Lucas, Lisa, Ernie, and Kevin Marks certainly have strong
interests in working on a common vocabulary to describe info about arbitrary
media (music, video, etc.) -- who else is interested in working on this?
I'd like to see if we can get some critical mass together to start writing
the necessary research documents:
 * media-info-examples
 - actual examples of media info published on the web today)
 * media-info-formats
 - harmonization/unification of the format listings, analyses and
comparison tables from media-metadata-examples and video-metadata-model)
 * media-info-brainstorming
 - an attempt at documenting the 80/20 of the implicit schema in actual use
on the web today, and some straw proposals for representation (e.g. Lucas'
hPlaylist proposal)
Who's in?
Tantek