[uf-discuss] A proposal for pursuing hListing

[Rohit Khare]

Hi folks --

After the SDForum microformats panel last month, I had a propitious  
conversation with Assaf Arkin and a few other folks about reviving  
discussion of a listings microformat. About two weeks ago, Craig  
Donato of Oodle encouraged me with an insight about the similarity to  
hReview:

 > If hReview is about what you *think* of something, hListing is  
what you want to *do* with it: buy, sell, trade, ...

Based on that conversation, we admit we had a few rounds of private  
back-and-forth discussions about what such a spec might look like;  
and we used the upcoming SDForum Search SIG meeting on classified ad  
startups as a rallying point. I've just posted the resulting  
documents to the wiki at:

http://microformats.org/wiki/hlisting-proposal
http://microformats.org/wiki/hlisting-feedback

This is only a proposal, with lots of holes and unfinished issues to  
debate, but at least it's a proof of concept driven by some early  
code: a wizard for posting listings to one's blog, and (just perhaps)  
a rev of the Miffy bookmarklet for extracting and indexing them in  
real-time.

If you'd like to see more innovation in this area, please don't  
hesitate to post to this list, contact any of us directly, or come by  
the session tomorrow night: (there's still space available -- I just  
signed up)

http://searchsig.wordpress.com/2006/01/21/feb-8th-search-sig/

Thanks,
   Rohit Khare