[uf-new] using microformats to represent what a page is

[Lorenzo De Tomasi]

What about using by default (and when available) a Wikipedia page uri
to describe what a page represents?
I mean in spite of

Activities

    * activity
    * sport

Businesses

    * bar
    * company
    * cafe
    * hotel
    * restaurant

Groups

    * cause
    * sports_league
    * sports_team

Organizations

    * band
    * government
    * non_profit
    * school
    * university

People

    * actor
    * athlete
    * author
    * director
    * musician
    * politician
    * public_figure

Places

    * city
    * country
    * landmark
    * state_province

Products and Entertainment

    * album
    * book
    * drink
    * food
    * game
    * product
    * song
    * movie
    * tv_show

Websites

    * blog
    * website
    * article

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Tantek Çelik <tantek at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
> One particularly interesting use case that seems to keep popping up is
> that of understanding what a page represents, e.g. FB Open Graph
> Protocol.
>
> microformats currently give us a way of marking up the semantics *in*
> a page, but not necessarily what the page itself *is* or represents,
> or is about.
>
> I think there are some potentially really simple ways of re-using
> microformats to do this, both in a more open standard way, and in a
> way which encourages marking up / using the visible data on the page
> rather than duplicating it in invisible metadata in the head (usual
> DRY violation problems, invisible metadata rotting problems etc.)
>
> I've started a page to document examples, formats, and some brainstorm ideas:
>
> http://microformats.org/wiki/page
>
> Please feel free to add more to that page.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tantek
>
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