hcard-date-of-death

2011-06-07T14:13:05Z

Danieljo: /* Date of Death evidence */

=Date of Death in hCard=

Work relating to the proposal to add a "date of death" field to [[hCard]].

This would be of particular, but not exclusive, benefit for hCards used within a [[genealogy]] microformat.

==Deceased indicator==
*There is no way to mark up a person as being deceased - either by a "deceased" flag or date-of-death. A workaround: add the tag/category "deceased". See also [http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-November/007324.html mailing list post on tagging for 'deceased']
** -1 Tantek: I think tags/categories are good enough for now.
** +1 [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]: Tags are often not appropriate, as per the cited e-mail. DoD is more specific (and often used in real life biographies and obituaries e.g [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh van Gogh on Wikipedia]). Note also Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Persondata Persondata] which aligns very closely with hCard, but has additional date and place of birth & death fields. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 13:06, 28 Jan 2007 (PST)
** +1 for date-of-death [[User:CiaranMc|Ciaran McNulty]]: Date-of-death is useful information in some applications (specifically genealogy).
** -1 for 'deceased' flag [[User:CiaranMc|Ciaran McNulty]]: Tagging can cover this sort of binary flag.

==Date of Death evidence==
*All 56,000+ entries in the [http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]
*Most Wikipedia biographies of dead people (most of those on Wikipedia-EN already use hCard):
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney Walt Disney]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bonham John Bonham]
*Used on cemetery records:
**[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=680 Find-a-Grave's Karl Marx]
**[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=676 Find-a-Grave's Chico Marx]
**[http://www.seeing-stars.com/Buried2/InglewoodPark.shtml Seeing Stars: InglewoodPark]
**[http://www.cwgc.org/search/SearchResults.aspx?surname=brazier&initials=&war=0&yearfrom=1900&yearto=2000&force=&nationality=&send.x=0&send.y=0 Commonwealth War Graves Commission search results] (some of the '''1.75 million''' records available)
*Used in obituaries:
**[http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/obituaries/norris.htm Tony Norris (West Midland Bird Club)]
**[http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1725211,00.html Ivor Cutler (Guardian)]
**[http://www.britarch.ac.uk/BA/ba8/ba8obit.html Grahame Clark (British Archaeology)]
*Used on memorial websites:
**[http://www.missyou.org.uk/wendydraper.aspx Missyou.org.uk - Wendy Draper]
**[http://www.thelastrespect.com/index.php/memorials/view/George-Blackett/6-14-1982 The Last Respect - George Blackett]
**[http://www.tributetimes.co.uk/heatherragnomay/Start Tribute Times - Heather Jane Ragno-May]
**[http://david-bennett.remembered-forever.org/ remembered-forever.org - David Bennett]
*Used on war memorial pages:
**[http://tinyurl.com/2ddlvq Captain Ronald Wilkinson]
**[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/PhotoTs/ERY/SkirlaughWM1_WM.html GenUKI's Skirlaugh War Memorial]
**[http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Essex/LittleWakering.html Roll of Honour.com's Little Wakering]
*Used in biographies:
**[http://www.biography.com/ Biography.com]'s ([http://www.biography.com/impressionists/monet-bio.jsp Camille Monet])
**[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0491048/ IMDb's Stan Laurel]
**[http://www.last.fm/music/Jimi+Hendrix LastFM's Jimi Hendrix]
**[http://pianosociety.com/cms/index.php?section=152 Piano Society's Debussy]
**[http://www.load.cd/composers/biography/144_johann_sebastian_bach.html J.S.Bach's Biography]
**[http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?search=ss&sText=churchill&LinkID=mp00879&rNo=0&role=sit National Portrait Gallery's Winston Churchill]
**[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/churchill_winston.shtml BBC's Winston Churchill]
**[http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Bach%252C_Johann_Sebastian International Music Score Library Project's Johann Sebastian Bach]
**[http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_126.html Guggenheim Museum: Picasso]
**[http://www.discogs.com/artist/Jimi+Hendrix Discogs: Jimi Hendrix]
*Used in artist attributions:
** [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp07047&role=art National Portrait Gallery's Edward Grey (1862-1933), by Sir James Guthrie (1859-1930)]
** [http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=21897&searchid=8912 The Tate's Figures in a Garden by Francis Bacon (1909-1992)]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_saints List of saints on Wikipedia]

See also: [[genealogy-examples]]

== New vCard Spec ==

The [http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-resnick-vcarddav-vcardrev-01.txt draft specification for vCard 4.0] introduces a DDAY property for recording the date of a contact's death. Currently [[hCard]] only covers vCard 3.0, but authors are free to use additional class names as desired. So authors may mark up date of death using a "dday" class, but should not necessarily expect parsers to recognise it.
* This is [http://buzzword.org.uk/cognition/uf-plus.html#hcard supported] by [http://buzzword.org.uk/cognition/ Cognition].

==Related pages==
{{hcard-related-pages}}

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