[uf-new] hAudio FN or Title

[Manu Sporny]

Martin McEvoy wrote:
> This is in Response to Manu's suggestion that maybe we should talk about
> changing hAudio "FN" to "Title"
> 
> <snip>
> I've never been happy with the choice of FN instead of TITLE in hAudio
> (TITLE means "job title" in Microformats). This could offer a good
> compromise if people are interested?
> </snip>
> http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2008-January/011446.html
> 
> Manu I for Once Agree with you ;) and I'm not too happy with it either.
> Feedback I have had about haudio seem to all have the same answer audio
> has a title too lets call it that.
> 
> I am unsure If we should re-use "title" directly from hcard "Job title"
> and "audio title" are both functions I guess? maybe someone can have
> more input on this.

The thought about porting the Dublin Core names over to Microformats was
mentioned on the uf-discuss list. Having a Dublin Core Microformat, may
be a solution that works for everybody.

I'd be a very strong supporter of Dublin Core's use in Microformats,
especially hAudio. Note that hAudio RDFa already re-uses the Dublin Core
metadata vocabulary:

http://wiki.digitalbazaar.com/en/HAudio_RDFa

The main disagreement seemed to be in DC's choice of class names
(DC.title, DC.contributor, DC.date). What about this for a Dublin Core
Microformat:

dc-title
dc-date
dc-description
... and on.

This approach has two benefits:

* It uses Microformat-like names.
* It re-uses a vocabulary that is largely accepted in the web semantics
  community.

-- manu

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