media-info-examples

Media Info Examples

Contributors

• Tantek Çelik

Introduction

Examples of what people actually publish on the Web when discussing, linking to, referring to media. This is focused predominantly on time based media such as audio and video, but may consider aspects of static media as well such as still images.

Emphasis on Real, Simple, and Minimal

Since all previous known attempts at this problem area have ended up quite complex and over-designed, this attempt will place simplicity and minimalism first and foremost.

Thus for now, this document is deliberately restricted to examples that are:

• Actual examples on the Web with URLs to the originals (note, all *-examples pages should be like this, but previous attempts at documenting media info examples have mostly ignored this, and thus it is necessary to be explicit).
• Representative of very common publishing behavior on the Web. This focus on common, representative examples is essential. If possible, include an estimate of the number of similar examples. E.g. ~10k.
• Simple and minimalist. As simple as possible. Go read the microformats principles right now before proceeding any further.

Examples

Audio

Speech

Publication of audio speeches on blogs is often called "podcasting". In essence though, it is simply audio speech publishing.

• Microformats: Web Essentials Audio
  • Appears to be composed of:
    • title/summary of the recording
    • clickable hyperlink to the recording (MP3)
  • Contextual:
    • (primary) speaker is indicated in nearby text

= Music

• ...

Video

• ...

Next Steps

1. Add more real-world, simple, minimal examples.
2. Research and organize existing/previous media-info-formats, with a focus on formats for publishing user-visible media information.
3. Start media-info-brainstorming based on examples.

See Also

• media-metadata-examples - previous attempt which is a bit of a deep-dive mess, and includes formats which should be in a separate page. Probably useful as both a source of research.