hcard-date-of-death
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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.
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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 mailing list post on tagging for 'deceased' (http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-November/007324.html)
- -1 Tantek: I think tags/categories are good enough for now.
- +1 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 van Gogh on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh)). Note also Wikipedia's Persondata (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Persondata) which aligns very closely with hCard, but has additional date and place of birth & death fields. Andy Mabbett 13:06, 28 Jan 2007 (PST)
- +1 for date-of-death Ciaran McNulty: Date-of-death is useful information in some applications (specifically genealogy).
- -1 for 'deceased' flag Ciaran McNulty: Tagging can cover this sort of binary flag.
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Date of Death evidence
- All 56,000+ entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/)
- Most Wikipedia biographies of dead people (most of those on Wikipedia-EN already use hCard):
- Walt Disney (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney)
- John Bonham (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bonham)
- Used on cemetery records:
- Find-a-Grave's Karl Marx (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=680)
- Find-a-Grave's Chico Marx (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=676)
- Seeing Stars: InglewoodPark (http://www.seeing-stars.com/Buried2/InglewoodPark.shtml)
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission search results (http://www.cwgc.org/search/SearchResults.aspx?surname=brazier&initials=&war=0&yearfrom=1900&yearto=2000&force=&nationality=&send.x=0&send.y=0) (some of the 1.75 million records available)
- Used in obituaries:
- Tony Norris (West Midland Bird Club) (http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/obituaries/norris.htm)
- Ivor Cutler (Guardian) (http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1725211,00.html)
- Grahame Clark (British Archaeology) (http://www.britarch.ac.uk/BA/ba8/ba8obit.html)
- Used on memorial websites:
- Missyou.org.uk - Wendy Draper (http://www.missyou.org.uk/wendydraper.aspx)
- The Last Respect - George Blackett (http://www.thelastrespect.com/index.php/memorials/view/George-Blackett/6-14-1982)
- Tribute Times - Heather Jane Ragno-May (http://www.tributetimes.co.uk/heatherragnomay/Start)
- remembered-forever.org - David Bennett (http://david-bennett.remembered-forever.org/)
- Used on war memorial pages:
- Captain Ronald Wilkinson (http://tinyurl.com/2ddlvq)
- GenUKI's Skirlaugh War Memorial (http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/PhotoTs/ERY/SkirlaughWM1_WM.html)
- Roll of Honour.com's Little Wakering (http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Essex/LittleWakering.html)
- Used in biographies:
- Biography.com (http://www.biography.com/)'s (Camille Monet (http://www.biography.com/impressionists/monet-bio.jsp))
- IMDb's Stan Laurel (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0491048/)
- LastFM's Jimi Hendrix (http://www.last.fm/music/Jimi+Hendrix)
- Piano Society's Debussy (http://pianosociety.com/cms/index.php?section=152)
- National Portrait Gallery's Winston Churchill (http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?search=ss&sText=churchill&LinkID=mp00879&rNo=0&role=sit)
- BBC's Winston Churchill (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/churchill_winston.shtml)
- International Music Score Library Project's Johann Sebastian Bach (http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Bach%252C_Johann_Sebastian)
- Guggenheim Museum: Picasso (http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_126.html)
- Discogs: Jimi Hendrix (http://www.discogs.com/artist/Jimi+Hendrix)
- Used in artist attributions:
- National Portrait Gallery's Edward Grey (1862-1933), by Sir James Guthrie (1859-1930) (http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp07047&role=art)
- The Tate's Figures in a Garden by Francis Bacon (1909-1992) (http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=21897&searchid=8912)
- List of saints on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_saints)
See also: genealogy-examples
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New vCard Spec
The draft specification for vCard 4.0 (http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-resnick-vcarddav-vcardrev-01.txt) 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.
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Related pages
- hCard
- hCard cheatsheet - hCard properties
- hCard creator (http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator) (feedback) - create your own hCard.
- hCard authoring - learn how to add hCard markup to your existing contact info.
- hCard examples - example usage of various classes within hCard.
- hCard examples in the wild - an on-going list of websites which use hCards.
- hCard FAQ - if you have any questions about hCard, check here.
- hCard implementations - websites or tools which either generate or parse hCards.
- hcard-implied - a proposal to create a alternative method of marking up a simple hCard
- hCard parsing - normative details of how to parse hCards.
- hcard-user-interface - techniques and issues surrounding user-interfaces to author, publish, and display hCards.
- hCard profile - the XMDP profile for hCard
- hCard singular properties - an explanation of the list of singular properties in hCard.
- hCard tests - a wiki page with actual embedded hCards to try parsing.
- hCard advocacy - encourage others to use hCard
- hCard "to do" - jobs to do
The hCard specification is a work in progress. As additional aspects are discussed, understood, and written, they will be added. These thoughts, issues, and questions are kept in separate pages.
- hCard brainstorming - brainstorms and other explorations relating to hCard.
- hcard-parsing-brainstorming - brainstorming specific to parsing of hCard
- geo brainstorming
- hCard feedback - general feedback (as opposed to specific issues).
- hCard issues - specific issues with the specification.
- vCard errata - corrections to the vCard specification, which underlies hCard.
- vCard suggestions - suggested improvements to the vCard specification.
