[uf-discuss] microformats for tagspeak ?

[Dr. Ernie Prabhakar]

Hi Sriram,

A fascinating question.   To make this more concrete, in  
microformat's own wiki I would love to be able to specify "rel" for  
links and "class" for data in MediaWiki syntax without having to  
write out all the HTML.

I think there's certainly something worthwhile there, though I'm not  
sure what.  Care to create a tagspeak-examples page?

-- Ernie P.

On Nov 10, 2005, at 8:31 PM, S. Sriram wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to know if tagspeak is something that microformats could  
> attempt to
> formalize ?
>
> tagspeak is the way in which everday users construct tags.
> tags are currently constructed in one of two ways:
> 1. with a link using the rel-tag or in gada.be's case using  
> tag.gada.be
> 2. in plain text as in delicious, flickr and other taggable services
>
> Punctuations that are in use with tags are
>
> @ to denote a group in shadows.com and jots.com
> : to denote a separator in the the proposed delicious groups  
> formulation
>   groupname: tag [1]
> + To denote a tag intrsection in delicious/technorati and takes
>   the place of a space
> - used by gada.be in the same way as + is used by others
> = As a delimiter to denote an iname [2]
>
> For a  few other tagspeak models see my blog [3]
>
> I wonder if this is something that fits within the microformats
> umbrella and if so has there been any work done on it ?
>
> [1] http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/ 
> berkman_joshua_schachter.html
> [2]
> http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/itag/itag.cfm? 
> save=true&pname=itag&purlname=ita
> g&wname=itag
> [3] http://sriram.wordpress.com/
>
> Thanks
> S. Sriram
>
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