[uf-discuss] Re: Profile-examples

[Chris Messina]

Well, let's do some research and see what we come up with.

I agree that user-profiles are the originating domain, but how does
this relate to something like hResume?

I guess maintaining hcard as a simple format for sending data relating
to someone's *contact* info is important to me... whereas representing
someone's interests or group membership in the same format starts to
sound a bit macro.

Furthermore, I would very much like to use existing building blocks --
and perhaps tease a few more out by looking at this as a macro
design-pattern (or micropattern, as you and I discussed).

Perhaps the pattern is in how you reuse other microformats to create a
user-profile, eh eh?

Chris



On 9/4/06, Tantek Çelik <tantek at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Brian's suggestion is a good one, user-profiles.
>
> Chris, consider solving the specific problem (principle #1) of user-profiles
> rather than expanding it to include groups.
>
> In addition, I very much recommend figuring out ways to just stick with
> hCard to represent aspects of the profile, rather than developing a new
> format.
>
> Experience has shown that previous attempts at creating "user profile"
> formats grow a bit out of control which doesn't benefit anyone (publisher,
> developer, consumer, user) etc.
>
> Tantek
>
>
> On 9/4/06 1:33 PM, "David Janes" <davidjanes at blogmatrix.com> wrote:
>
> > How about "public-profiles"?
> >
> > Regards, etc...
> > David
> >
> > On 9/4/06, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> While I take your point that profiles vs xmdp profiles I confusing,
> >> the notion of a profile can also apply to groups or teams... So
> >> user-profiles would be too specific.
> >>
> >> Perhaps we should do more research and see if this effort requires two
> >> separate formats for groups and individuals.
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> >> On 9/4/06, Brian Suda <brian.suda at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> To avoid confusion with XMDP profiles, we should choose a more
> >>> specific name, such as user-profile-examples, or user-bio-examples,
> >>> etc.
> >>>
> >>> -brian
> >>>
> >>> On 9/3/06, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> A long time ago we discussed the need for a user-profile microformat.
> >>>> Clearly this would be a superset of hcard as well as an amalgamation
> >>>> of other microformats, but I thought I'd throw up a page so that we
> >>>> could start collecting data and practices:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://microformats.org/wiki/profile-examples
> >>>>
> >>>> This follows an email thread from January that hasn't, to my
> >>>> knowledge, been picked up on:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-January/00268
> >>> 5.html
> >>>>
> >>>> Please let me know if anyone's interested. This work will directly
> >>>> effect a social networking platform that a client of mine is currently
> >>>> working on. They've already implemented hcard and xfn and now want to
> >>>> mark up the rest of a user's profile page and need guidance.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>>
> >>>> Chris
> >>>>
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