[uf-new] hAudio 1.0 Draft Release

[Martin McEvoy]

Hello

This email is to announce the hAudio[1] 1.0 Final Draft proposed Schema

Properties that are 70% or over of discovered elements determined by the 
audio-info examples[2]

haudio (required)
fn (required)
contributor
album
enclosure
type
published
duration
position
photo

Removed properties that are 70% or less of discovered elements

category
description
sample
payment
price
item

Recommended addition

length(size)

all the examples that relate to the final download itself when clicked 
have a file size, a user agent has to first download a small part of the 
audio to determine the file size.

haudio in part reuses the concept of an atom enclosure and length is a 
required element of an atom:enclosure eg:

  <enclosure url="http://www.example.org/myaudiofile.mp3"
                 length="12345"
                 type="audio/mpeg" />

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-atom10.html

The above is also true with RSS2 enclosures

<enclosure url="http://www.scripting.com/mp3s/weatherReportSuite.mp3"
                  length="12216320"
                  type="audio/mpeg" />

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html


Publishing Recommendations

hAtom[3]  or XOXO[4] should be used for grouping audio
hAtom should be used for human edited content relating to an audio such 
as a description or press release about the audio content
hReview[5] should be used to rate and review an audio.

I hope to make the above recommendations Final  and make the above 
changes within the next week or so.

[1] http://microformats.org/wiki/haudio
[2] http://microformats.org/wiki/audio-info-examples
[3] http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom
[4] http://microformats.org/wiki/xoxo
[5] http://microformats.org/wiki/hreview

Best wishes

-- 
Martin McEvoy

http://weborganics.co.uk/