[uf-discuss] Microformats and Football

[Frances Berriman]

On 13/02/07, Danilo Medeiros <danilo at digitalminds.com.br> wrote:
> Dear friends,
>
> This is my first post to the list, so please forgive me if this is
> inappropriate.

Hi Danilo, welcome to the -discuss list. :)

> I´m trying to find information about microformats in sports, more
> specifically football (soccer for the americans). I´m involved in a project
> that will expose lots of data such as match results, scouts, player
> information and the like, and could not help but think about using
> microformats to expose this data.
>
> Any suggestions or ideas?

Well - the first good step you can take is to gather some information
- the kind of think you'd like to publish, then think about what
existing microformats will fit with this data.

Just off the top of my head, you might think about combining hCard and
hReview to describe a player and their abilities (or maybe even
hResume for their sporting careers).  Then you've got hCalendar for
marking up sporting events...

So yeah - using microformats to expose this data is probably very
suitable and there is likely to be a good foundation already in
existance to build something more accurate on to start with.

F

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