item-examples

Item Examples

From the process:

*-examples. Find examples on today's web of the the type of content you think needs a microformat. Document them with URLs. Document the implicit schemas that the content examples imply. This is the action that helps follow principle 3, design for humans first, machines second ... adapt to current behaviors and usage patterns.

This page documents how items and things are marked up and represented on the web.

In Existing Microformats

hReview and hListing are applicable to things (as well as people marked up as hCards).

EdgeIO (hListing)

Note that EdgeIO using [hlisting|hListing] for individual items but not for the lists of itens.

• Main URI: http://www.edgeio.com/
• Merchandise: http://www.edgeio.com/tt/merchandise
  • Example: http://www.edgeio.com/item/1814754-Motorola-RAZR-north%20america
  • class="summary": the title of the listed item
  • class="description": the description of the listed item
  • class="lister vcard": the lister
• Housing: http://www.edgeio.com/tt/housing
• Autos: http://www.edgeio.com/tt/autos

Deal Tagger (hListing)

• URI: http://www.dealtagger.com/

Cork'd (hReview)

• URI: http://corkd.com/
• Example: http://corkd.com/wine/view/13482
• class="item": the item being reviewed
• class="fn": the name of the item being reviewed
• Note that class="description" are not part of the item, they're part of the review!
• hReview used for each user review:

<div id="review_9285" class="hreview"> <h5 class="item"><span class="fn">Cellarium Bisencii 2005 Muškát moravský</span></h5> <abbr class="dtreviewed" title="20061118"> (about 2 hours ago)</abbr> <span class="reviewer vcard"> <img class="photo" src="/img/icon-user-64.gif" height="48" width="48" alt="buddy icon" /> <a class="url fn" href="/people/cruster">cruster</a> </span> <abbr class="rating" title="2"><img src="/img/icon-rate2.gif" alt="**" /></abbr> <blockquote class="description">When ... scent.</blockquote> <p class="tags">Tasting Tags: <a href="/tags/light" rel="tag" class="rel-tag" title="view all wines with this tag">light</a> </p> </div>

• Note:
  • "vcard" is used to represent the wine, even though it isn't a person or an organization
  • there is no photo of wine

Yahoo Local (hReview)

• URI: http://local.yahoo.com/
• attempts to download pages outside of a browser are blocked, which is not very friendly to analysis!

Yahoo UK Movie Reviews

Not sure if this is within scope (i.e. is a movie a thing?)

• URI: http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/movie-reviews/

In Proposed Microformats

• cite
• wine

In Google Base

Attributes in Google Base are open ended. For each of the following Item Types, we're identifying the attributes that Google Base displays when one attempts to edit an entry; there's also a broader list of applicable attributes, and then there's the open to add anything to a listing.

Housing

Primary Attribute Types (see for all):

• title - listing title
• description (text)
• photos
• price - US dollars per item
• price type - "fixed", "negotiable" (doesn't seem to have a formal definition)
• listing type - e.g. "for sale"...
• property type - apartment, land, farm...
• bedrooms - number
• square footage - number and unit
• bathrooms - number

Products

Primary Attribute Types (see for all):

• title - listing title
• description (text)
• photos
• price
• price type
• quanity - number (e.g. 1)
• product type - e.g. "jewlery"
• condition - e.g. "used"
• brand - e.g. "cartier"

Vehicles

Primary Attribute Types (see for all):

• title - listing title
• description (text)
• photos
• price - US dollars per
• price type - "fixed", "negotiable" (doesn't seem to have a formal definition)
• quantity - a number
• year
• make - e.g. ford
• vehicle type - e.g. car
• condition - e.g. used

Want Ads

This Item Type may not be totally applicable, but it is about "things" for sale. Primary Attribute Types (see for all):

Primary Attribute Types (see for all):

• title - listing title
• description (text)
• photos

Google expects users of its Want Ads system to define all the appropriate attributes themselves. Further research needed here to see this actually in use.

Other Sites

Craigslist

These examples are taken from listing-examples

• For Sale
  • email
  • duration (implied)
  • date
  • category
  • title
  • description
  • location
  • condition
  • images
  • price
  • availability
• Wanted
  • email
  • duration
  • date
  • category
  • title
  • description
  • location
  • condition
  • images
  • price
• Housing
  • category (rent, sale, temp)
  • date
  • duration (implied)
  • contact info
  • location
  • title
  • description
  • size
    • bedrooms
  • rent
  • photos
  • pet policy
  • fee/no-fee
  • broker/non-broker

MLS.ca (housing)

• URI: http://www.mls.ca/

Attributes:

• (no title)
• MLS listing number
• description
• photos
• address (including a "district")
• sales people
• property type
• category
• house style
• age
• bedrooms
• bathrooms
• fireplace
• central a/c
• pool
• waterfront
• workshop
• house size
• lot size

Amazon Wish-list

• URI: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/registry/registry.html/202-9388504-4042203?ie=UTF8&type=wishlist&id=21R1WHKA4PXVC

Attributes

• Image
• Title
• Author/Designer/Creator/Manufacturer
• Status (stock availability)
• Price
• Link
• Quantity Desired
• Quantity Received
• Priority (Ranking?)
• Comment

British Library Search Results

• URI: http://catalogue.bl.uk

Attributes

• Number
• Author
• Title
• Year
• Shelfmarks (Subcategory Unique ID?)

Fresh Arrival

Fresh Arrival post about a 'thing' that they like every day

• URI: http://www.fresharrival.com/blog/archives/2006/11/13/corner-step-can/

Attributes

• Title
• Image
• Detail
• Link

Need ...

Books, ...? What tables/fields Amazon use to catalogue their wide selection of items?

See Also

• examples
• formats
• brainstorming
• initial discussion