<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>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:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>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.</DIV> <DIV>To show that person X is a member of this group use rel="member" (you can also use "owner" or "moderator")</DIV> <DIV>To show that you are a member of group X use rel="group"</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>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.</DIV> <DIV> Eran. </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> From: microformats-discuss-bounces@microformats.org [mailto:microformats-discuss-bounces@microformats.org] On Behalf Of Factory Joe Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 12:56 AM To: Microformats Discuss Subject: [uf-discuss] Group Microformat </DIV> <DIV></DIV>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 </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>