[uf-discuss] rel="byme"

[Toby A Inkster]

Brian Suda wrote:
> James Tindall <james at atomless.com> wrote:
>
> > I use the xfn rel="me" to link from my personal site to sites that I
> > maintain and that represent me in some way but is there a  
> microformat I
> > should use to link to a site I have built for a client?
>
> I can't seem to find a reference, but i remember a value called "made"
> from somewhere.
>
> It is not part of the core link types in HTML
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#type-links

It's in the HTML 3.2 spec.

> WHAT-WG has a few additional values for HTML5
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#linkTypes

As does the XHTML 2.0 draft:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod- 
metaAttributes.html#adef_metaAttributes_rel

Whatsmore, RDFa <http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax/> allows you to use  
terms from various non-W3C vocabularies such as Dublin Core (which  
has dc:creator and dc:contributor) and FOAF (which has foaf:made and  
foaf:maker). If you treat a website as being a "project", then the  
Description of a Project (DOAP) vocabulary might be handy too, as it  
has doap:developer, doap:maintainer, doap:documenter,  
doap:translator, doap:tester and doap:helper.

At http://buzzword.org.uk/cognition/ I use RDFa to indicate that the  
dc:creator, doap:maintainer, doap:developer, foaf:maker and  
doap:documenter of the project is me; that the dc:creator, author and  
foaf:maker of the page itself is me; and that I foaf:made and made  
both the project and the page. I also use the hCard microformat in  
conjunction with <address> to indicate that I am the contact person  
for the page.

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Toby A Inkster
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