On 8/7/07 8:19 AM, "Paul Kinlan" <paul.kinlan at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am working on a site that aggregates updates to websites > (http://www.topicala.com/popular - it is parsing rel-tag at the > moment). It is working well (as a hack at the moment), I would like > to include some summary information about the sites that I am > aggregating. >> I am thinking of using "META description" for now (but I am not sure > of the quality of data in the tag), http://microformats.org/wiki/page-summary-formats#Meta_description > however, I have been looking at > micro-summary (http://microformats.org/wiki/microsummary-brainstorming). > Is this topic still alive? Has anyone been developing this? Are > there any other similar developments (that I have missed)? Thanks for the heads up. That topic (aside from being prematurely named with a buzzword) has been quite dead for a while in addition to not following the microformats process to begin with. I've tried to clean-up and collect the bits of research around it that had been done here: http://microformats.org/wiki/page-summary > If not, how can I help? Having micro summaries would solve part of a > problem that I am having (other than what I suspect is lack of useage > at the moment). Lack of usage is a *big* problem. If you can't find examples in the wild (though I think you probably could), then it's not worth pursuing a page-summary microformat. If you want to help develop a page summary microformat, I'd say the first things to do would be to: 1. make your site (http://www.topicala.com/popular/) POSH: * http://microformats.org/wiki/posh 2. add microformats to your site: * http://microformats.org/wiki/get-started 3. follow the microformats process for page-summary: * http://microformats.org/wiki/process Steps 1 and 2 will better help you familiarize yourself with how POSH and microformats currently work - that "real world" experience will greatly help you with the development a new microformat. Tantek