[uf-discuss] microformats for tagspeak ?

[Dr. Ernie Prabhakar]

Hi S.,

On Nov 12, 2005, at 9:55 PM, S. Sriram wrote:
> FYI:
> I've put up the tagspeak-examples page on the wiki.
> http://microformats.org/wiki?title=tagspeak-examples
>
> Thanks
> S. Sriram

Wow, great stuff. Thanks for pulling this together.  Hopefully some  
others will weigh in.  It looks like there's already enough to  
justify a separate "brainstorming" page.

Keep up the good work!

-- Ernie P.


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dr. Ernie Prabhakar" <drernie at opendarwin.org>
> To: "Microformats Discuss" <microformats-discuss at microformats.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 10:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] microformats for tagspeak ?
>
>
>> 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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Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D. <drernie at opendarwin.org>
Ex-Physicist, Marketing Weenie, and Dilettante Hacker
Probe-Hacker blog: http://www.opendarwin.org/~drernie/