[uf-discuss] Group Microformat

[Ryan King]

I just wanted to point out that Eran has an actual implementation of  
this already, FWIW.

-ryan

On Feb 27, 2006, at 10:29 AM, Eran wrote:

> I've actually been thinking of a similar idea for a project I'm  
> working on.
> So far, I've only been interested in membership lists and content  
> (later I
> might add group meta data like closed/open, moderated etc.). Here's  
> what I
> have so far:
>
> To show that content X belongs to a group, use rel-directory. The  
> group is a
> container just like any other so rel-directory seems like a perfect  
> fit.
> To show that person X is a member of this group use  
> rel="member" (you can
> also use "owner" or "moderator")
> To show that you are a member of group X use rel="group"
>
> The membership forrmat (I call it xhtml membership format - xmf)  
> leaves
> exact semantics of the relationships to the group. Some groups  
> might be
> closed - the links must be reciprocated, others might be open - a  
> link from
> a user's page is enough to indicate membership. The proper place  
> for XMF
> links is the group's main page and the user's XFN page (or a page with
> rel="me" to those pages). Hopefully, by "linking" the to XFN  
> network we also
> gain access to users' profiles published in hCard so there's no  
> need to
> replicate that.
>
> Eran.
>
>
>   _____
>
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> [mailto:microformats-discuss-bounces at microformats.org] On Behalf Of  
> Factory
> Joe
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 12:56 AM
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> Subject: [uf-discuss] Group Microformat
>
>
> So I was going to go ahead and create a discussion page for this  
> topic on
> the wiki, but I figured I'd hold off pending initial discussion.
>
> So what I like about hCard is that I can create a social network of my
> friends on one site, and once those services wisen up, can import  
> all my
> buddies at once via scraping the hcards off my friends listing pages.
>
> Now, I'd like to do the same thing for groups. So I need something  
> like
> hGroup.
>
> In the wild, groups usually have members and occassionally pools of  
> data --
> like forum posts or photos. You can also have vlogging groups,  
> gamer groups
> and so on. So I'd break it down like this:
>
> --Group Name
>   | Description
>   | Tags
>   |
>   +--+ Members
>   |  |
>   |  +-- Member 1 (hcard)
>   |  |
>   |  +-- Member 2 (hcard)
>   |
>   +--+ Pool
>      |
>      +--+ Topic
>         |
>         +-- Post 1 (hatom)
>         |
>         +-- Post 2 (hatom)
>
> Anyway, what I want to be able to do is not only interchange my social
> networks, but also my groups. If I've created a Flock group on Flock,
> presumably I should have one created on Upcoming, iMeem and so on.  
> Being
> able to export these groups and share them between sites would be  
> excellent.
>
>
> I dunno, what do people think? It's just like, the more social apps  
> I try,
> the less interest I have in reinstantiating my entire social  
> networking
> infrastruture.
>
> Chris
>
>
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