[uf-new] Media Microformat

Mon Nov 10 17:05:38 PST 2008

Hello Tantek
Tantek Çelik wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Martin McEvoy <martin at weborganics.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Hello all
>>>> I would like to inform you that the Media Examples Anyalisis has at last
>> been completed please see http://microformats.org/wiki/media-info-examples.
>> The full results and discovered schema for a Media Microformat is available
>> here: http://microformats.org/wiki/media-info-brainstorming#Schema.
>>>> Martin,
>> Excellent analysis and summary on the media info examples. It's good
> to see this making progress.
>Thank you..
> The only suggested feedback/improvement I have at this time is to
> consider the principle of modularity:
>> http://microformats.org/wiki/principles
>> and perhaps separate out a few bits, thus simplifying a potential
> media info microformat.
>> That is, see how much of a media info posting can be marked up as an
> hAtom entry, and then produce a media info schema based on what
> remains, rather than what hAtom has already marked up, e.g.
> * published
> * comment - should probably go into an iteration of hAtom or a
>I think re-use hAtom too I have done for a long time, but when I 
mentioned placing media-info in the domain of hAtom, It received quite a 
lot of push back from the community [1] I got "talked" out of the whole 
idea, I thought maybe I shouldn't go there again this time, but now the 
evidence is In so to speak, It was the right thought to begin with.
[1] 
http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-new/2007-April/000120.html
> separate microformat instead, see existing work:
> http://microformats.org/wiki/comment (links to a lot of pre-existing work)
>
I looked at comment but It doesn't seem to have got very far, and has 
not got much in the way of examples But seems to mostly concern itself 
with , I have already analysed 25 really good examples of Comments, so 
maybe I should add what I know to that and go from there? my only 
concern is wasn't a comment microformat(hcomment) depreciated?
> Also, for "alternate", see http://microformats.org/wiki/alternates (ditto).
>
I wasn't aware of that discussion, thanks.
Thanks for your valuable feedback
Best Wishes
-- 
Martin McEvoy
http://weborganics.co.uk/