[uf-new] Proposal to split media-info exploration

Martin McEvoy martin at weborganics.co.uk
Tue Apr 10 08:26:56 PDT 2007


On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 11:48 -0300, Alexandre Van de Sande wrote:
> I think that would be a great idea manu I support it.
> Please give us the link so we can contribute also
> 
Great Idea!
Count me in too

> On 4/9/07, Manu Sporny <msporny at digitalbazaar.com> wrote:
> > The media-info discussion was started on December 17th, 2005. It has
> > been almost sixteen months and every time media-info is mentioned, it
> > seems that it will be at least another six months before the first draft
> > is completed. Contributors seem to be shying away from it because it
> > seems like such a daunting task (the reason being: it is). So in the
> > spirit of the Microformat process, let us simplify the problem.
> >
> > I propose that we split the media-info exploratory discussion into three
> > parts: audio, video and images.
> >
> > The exploratory examples for audio have been completed. From what I have
> > heard, nobody has said that there shouldn't be a media-info uF for
> > audio. In addition to that, music (audio) seems to be the one of most
> > interest at the moment. I am volunteering to create an
> > audio-info-examples page, collate all of the analysis results that are
> > in media-info into the new page and write a draft specification for
> > audio-info.
> >
> > If there are no objections, I'd like to start this process soon. The
> > goal would be to have a draft audio-info spec in about a month or two,
> > and then move onto video and images. Once all three uF drafts are
> > completed, the requirements for media-info will be automatically fulfilled.
> >
> > -- manu
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