[microformats-discuss] microformats for various types of media?

[Bud Gibson]

I should take this opportunity to point out that the next iteration  
of xFolk will support <img> and <object> elements inasmuch as they  
are pointing to URLs (I need to do a little review here).  The idea  
behind xFolk is to provide descriptions and tags to things that are  
linked to.  As such it probably does not fulfill the needs of people  
posting here.

Bud

On Jul 13, 2005, at 15:59, Tantek Çelik wrote:

> On 7/13/05 10:43 AM, "Dougal Campbell" <dougal at gunters.org> wrote:
>
>
>> Now for something a little more frivolous. Is anyone else  
>> interested in
>> a microformat for marking up information about music tracks?
>>
>
> Not frivolous at all.
>
>
>
>> I'm sure there's plenty of prior-art formats to borrow from (the  
>> iTunes
>> library export XML comes to mind, as does the ID3 tagging info  
>> itself).
>>
>
> Absolutely.  Some folks have already started capturing this:
>
>  http://microformats.org/wiki/media-metadata-examples
>
> And not only is there prior art, but you have at least two domain  
> experts on
> this mailing list:
>
>  Kevin Marks - QuickTime background, podcasting innovator, etc.
>  Lucas Gonze - XSPF lead
>
> (guys please feel free to correct my imprecise characterizations)
> (and any other domain experts, consider this your invite to speak up)
>
>
>
>> But, where to start?
>>
>
>  http://microformats.org/wiki/process
>
>
>
>> What's required and optional?
>>
>
> start as simple as possible
>
>
>
>> How to handle album
>> information for "various artists" collections consistently?
>>
>
> How do people publish that information today on the web?
>
> E.g. How does Amazon publish it?  How do bloggers publish it?
>
>
>
>> On a related note, microformats for books and movies would also be
>> interesting. A site like All Consuming would be able to aggregate  
>> this
>> type of data in interesting ways.
>>
>> Is this a dumb application for a microformat, or should I plow ahead?
>>
>
> Not dumb at all.
>
> See above.  Check the process page for some useful first steps.
>
> Go through the media-metadata-examples document.
>
> Perhaps even check out the IRC channel.  I know Kevin is on there a  
> whole
> bunch.  Sometimes IRC works better than email to brainstorm a bunch  
> of stuff
> quickly.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tantek
>
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