[uf-new] re: Microformats support for aggregate reviews

[Jamie Rumbelow]

See, comments like that lead me on to think that we need some form of
pagination system for microformats - pagination is much more popular among
sites these days and a rel="paginate" might come in handy.


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[mailto:microformats-new-bounces at microformats.org] On Behalf Of Kavi Goel
Sent: 14 January 2009 06:09
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Subject: Re: [uf-new] re: Microformats support for aggregate reviews

Sarven and Toby, thanks for your responses.

Sarven -- the challenge with doing aggregation at the parser level is that
not all reviews are contained on a single page. For example, this iPod page
on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001FA1NFA/) has
443 reviews. Only 10 are contained on each page. Even if the parser knew
which pages to go to, it would still have to crawl 45 pages to come up with
the aggregate rating. Much easier is to simply read the aggregate
information that is already summarized on the first page.

Toby -- I think your approach makes sense, but I have two questions.
1) how does the parser know how many user reviews contributed to the
aggregate score? I think we would need some sort of explicit markup of this
information rather than extracting it from a natural language review
description.
2) can you clarify how a site would use the rel-tag to mark a review as an
aggregate, for example, how Amazon or Yelp might do it on their page? I
expect that very few sites will be willing to change their pages' UI to
include metadata about reviews. Rel-tags, as far as I know, are visible
links. Apologies in advance if I am misunderstanding.

Kavi

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Toby A Inkster <mail at tobyinkster.co.uk>
wrote:
>
> Kavi Goel wrote:
>
>> I'm interested in finding a way for microformats to support marking 
>> up aggregate reviews. Currently, hReview is focused on individual 
>> reviews, but there are many sites that aggregate reviews. I would 
>> love to hear your feedback.
>
> I don't understand what is needed that is not already present in hReview.
>
> If you wish to publish a list of reviews plus an average rating at the
top, then use hReview for each individual review, and an hReview at the top
containing the average rating. For the average rating, set the hReview
"reviewer" property to an hCard for the aggregation organisation. To avoid
repeating the item info in each review, just put it in the aggregate review
and use the include pattern in the individual reviews. The aggregate review
can be explicitly marked as an aggregate by rel-tagging it so. The aggregate
review "description" property could be along the lines of "This rating is an
average of 38 people's reviews".
>
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