hreview-aggregate

<entry-title>hReview-aggregate 0.1</entry-title> This document represents a draft microformat specification. Although drafts are somewhat mature in the development process, the stability of this document cannot be guaranteed, and implementers should be prepared to keep abreast of future developments and changes. Watch this wiki page, or follow discussions on the #microformats IRC channel to stay up-to-date.

hReview-aggregate is a format for embedding review information (of products, services, businesses, etc). Whereas hReview is intended for an individual review, hReview-aggregate is meant for summary information about a collection of user or critic reviews about an item. hReview-aggregate is one of several microformats open standards suitable for embedding in HTML, XHTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML.

Microformats Draft Specification 2009-11-10

Editor

• Kavi Goel, Google

Authors

(alphabetical)

• Tantek Çelik
• Othar Hansson, Google
• Jay Myers, Best Buy, Co., Inc.

todo's

to-do: this "hReview aggregate" draft specification page needs to be written up from the chosen/consensus proposal in aggregate-review-brainstorming, perhaps using hReview as a spec draft template.

examples in the wild

This section is informative.

The following sites have implemented hReview-aggregate, and thus are a great place to start for anyone looking for examples "in the wild" to try parsing, indexing, organizing etc. If your site is marked up with hReview aggregate, feel free to add it to the top of this list. Once the list grows too big, we'll make a separate wiki page like hreview-aggregate-examples-in-wild.

• STV Local uses hreview-aggregate for business ratings, average prices and contact details with hcard
• Critiki publishes ratings and reviews of Tiki bars, and uses hReview aggregate for average ratings on their pages, e.g. overview of The Tonga Room. (as tweeted by humuhumu 2009-09-21)
• NAPLESPLUS is an example of a website that has implemented hreview-aggregate via Google specs.
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