[uf-discuss] Microformat for dictionary/thesaurus ... + research

[Chris Messina]

I guess what's also interesting to me at this point, now that we have
some more mature microformats getting spread, to have cool ways of
visually styling them. Since the Dictionary.app output looks pretty
good, the thought was using that visual style and applying it to data
marked up as microformatted data... that way we start bringing our
work around to designers who will advocate and implement and start to
get these practices into the real world.

Anyway, is there a wiki page for definitions/thesauri listings already?

Chris

On 11/30/05, Kevin Marks <kmarks at technorati.com> wrote:
> Certainly worth gathering examples. For my boys' wordlists, I wrote a
> scraper that went to merriam-webster, looked up a list of words, and
> created a XOXO approximation from their markup:
>
> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="400" border="0">
>         <tr>
>                 <td align="left">
> One entry found for <b>impostor</b>.<form name="entry"  method=post
> action="/cgi-bin/dictionary"><table border="0" cellpadding="0"
> cellspacing="0" valign="top"><tr><td>
> <input type=hidden name=hdwd value="impostor"><input type=hidden
> name=listword value="imposter"><input type=hidden name=book
> value=Dictionary></td></tr></table>
> </form>
> Main Entry:     <b>im·pos·tor</b> <a
> href="javascript:popWin('/cgi-bin/audio.pl?
> impost02.wav=impostor')"><img src="/images/audio.gif" border=0
> height=11 width=16></a><br>
> Variant(s):     <i>or</i> <b>im·pos·ter</b> <a
> href="javascript:popWin('/cgi-bin/audio.pl?
> impost02.wav=imposter')"><img src="/images/audio.gif" border=0
> height=11 width=16></a> /<tt>im-'p&auml;s-t&amp;r</tt>/<br>
> Function:       <i>noun</i><br>
> Etymology:      Late Latin <i>impostor, </i>from Latin <i>imponere</i><br>
> <b>:</b> one that assumes false identity or title for the purpose of
> deception
>                 </td>
>                 <td><img src="/images/pixt.gif" alt="" width="10" height="1"
> border="0"></td>
>         </tr>
> </table>
>
> to something cleaner, eg
>
> http://homepage.mac.com/kevinmarks/flock.html
>
> Needs more work (the 3rd layer senses should be a sub-list too, and the
> markup could be way more semantic, and converting their home-made
> phonetics to IPA would be nice).
>
>
> On Nov 30, 2005, at 12:27 PM, Ryan King wrote:
>
> > On Nov 30, 2005, at 12:20 PM, Chris Messina wrote:Anyway, checking out
> > that page resulted in a format that seemed ripe
> >> for some dl|dt|dd microformat love:
> >>
> >> <entry type="subject" sortkey="sortkeyhere" status="Active"
> >>                        title="noad:1.01" entry="0" stage="1">
> >>     <meta> ...  </meta>
> >>     <hwGrp> ... <hwGrp>
> >>     <senseBlock>
> >>         <meta> ...  </meta>
> >>         <prelim> ... </prelim>
> >>         <sense>
> >>             <meta> ...  </meta>
> >>             ...
> >>         </sense>
> >>     </senseBlock>
> >> </entry>
>
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