[uf-new] Second attempt at hAudio proposal

Martin McEvoy martin at weborganics.co.uk
Mon May 7 08:36:24 PDT 2007


On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 10:57 -0400, Manu Sporny wrote:
> The newest proposal of hAudio (v0.3) is available:
> 
> http://microformats.org/wiki/audio-info-proposal
> 
> Here are the changes based on input from the community:
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> title -> work-title
> 
> Fixed a typo on the page. There has been one objection to 'work-title'.
> It is suggested that we change it to 'fn', which didn't have that
> favorable of a reception.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> collaborator -> contributor
> 
> Changed collaborator element name to 'contributor' to follow Dublin
> Core's lead on the issue.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> release-date -> published-date
> 
> Changed release date to published date to be more specific about the
> contents of the element.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> acquire
> 
> Changed to be a class instead of a rel-attribute. There is still some
> concern over the name 'acquire'. Primarily in that it doesn't pluralize
> cleanly (it is a verb - it should probably be a noun?).

could we use an adjective? "obtainable"

<span class="obtainable"...>

Is it the same thing?

> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> image-summary
> 
> Unchanged. There have been suggestions to make this 'photo' or 'logo',
> but neither the semantics of photo or logo are correct. This element is
> planned to be used across audio, video and images... thus the semantics
> must mean the exact same in each Microformat.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> genre -> category
> 
> Changed genre to category as no rel-tag is needed for categories. A
> genre and style is a type of category, so using 'category' makes sense.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> length -> duration
> 
> Length is used more for spatial measurements than temporal ones. The
> measurement we are addressing is a temporal one, that of duration.
> ISO-8601 duration is used to specify the duration of an audio recording
> in seconds.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> At the moment, there seem to be three debatable issues:
> 
> - The use of 'fn' instead of 'work-title'.
> - The proper class name for the 'acquire' property.
> - Grouping (specifically, how do we tell albums apart from songs and
>             relate songs to one another).
> 
> -- manu
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