Blog description format (background research)

Discussion Participants

Editors

Björn Seibert, Robert Bachmann

Authors

Björn Seibert, Robert Bachmann

Purpose

A microformat to describe the contents of a (we)blog. It provides a specific set of information to categorize a (we)blog. Enables easier search for humans and efficient collection of information by machines.

Here are some of examples for information that might be provided:

Details about the blog
Blog name (e.g: "John Doe's Blog")
- Blog URI (e.g: http://example.org/ )
- Lanuage used for the blog, read-able by machines (e.g: "en-US" or "de")
- Topics covered by the blog
- A short description
- Available feeds (RSS, Atom, etc.)
- A small logo image
Details about the author(s)
- Name (e.g: "John Doe")
- Organisation
- Contact details
- Geographical Location

Examples

Add real world examples here

Existing practice

Entry Wrappers

<div class="entry"></div>

has widespread usage, but seems to show up in slightly different contexts.

Some blogs (ala Wordpress) use the entry div as a wrapper to the actual post body, and wrap the whole thing in an additional div:

<div class="post">
    <div class="entry">
    </div>
</div>

Metadata

Wordpress uses class="postmetadata" to contain meta information, date, others use their own syntax - class="topics", class="description". -- need to post better examples here --

Permalinks

rel="bookmark" and rel="permalink" are both used in various places to denote a permalink to the specified entry.