[uf-discuss] Micro Summary

Tue Aug 7 09:42:31 PDT 2007

On Aug 7, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Paul Kinlan wrote:
> I am thinking of using "META description" for now (but I am not sure
> of the quality of data in the tag), 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)?
>> 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).

I think the problem statement first needs clarification. As you 
point out, meta descriptions already provide summary information 
about web pages. What exactly are the problems with meta 
descriptions, and how would micro-summary solve them? If there's a 
compelling use case (for publishers, not just consumers), the next 
step is to collect examples of current publishing of this type of 
information. Then we can start analyzing both whether there's enough 
of it to be worth continuing, and if so, how we might structure it to 
be more machine-readable.
Peace,
Scott