hreview-advocacy

hReview advocacy

Part of the larger microformats advocacy effort. Adding hReview to these sites would improve their usability and ambient findability.

general review sites

• Listal for all reviews including books.
  • Requested by e-mail, 2007-05-29. David Mead
• Pownce
  • Requested a "rating" note-type which would produce hReview markup (see comment by pownce.com/t in this thread) Tantek 13:12, 3 Sep 2007 (PDT)

food and restaurant reviews

• Meal Me for all food reviews such as [1].
  • Requested by e-mail, 2008-01-03. David Mead
• Yelp - lots of restaurants
  • Anyone have contacts at Yelp?

wine reviews

Similar to http://corkd.com/ the following sites could very much benefit from being marked up with hReview:

• http://winecast.net/2007/07/25/wine-ratings-revisited-2/
• http://goodwineunder20.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-we-buy-wine.html
• http://www.winelifetoday.com/

camera reviews

• Digital Photography Review
  • Requested by feedback form, 2007-01-18. Andy Mabbett
• Steve's Digicams
  • Requested by e-mail, 2007-01-18. Andy Mabbett

government reviews

• E-petitions (in draft, and asking for suggested improvements}
  • Requested by e-mail, 2006-12-01 Andy Mabbett 11:48, 1 Dec 2006 (PST)
    • reply: "I've added it to our list of ideas." 2006-12-04 Andy Mabbett 11:08, 4 Dec 2006 (PST)

movie reviews

• Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
  • anyone have contacts at IMDB?
  • primarily hReview for all the review data, and in addition hCard for all the people, rel-tags for film/plot/other tags
  • title/tt0413267 with microformats - hReview for the whole page for the item with overall rating, name, photo, tags. hCards for the directors/actors. Tantek 19:20, 21 May 2007 (PDT)
    • Could also use tag on year (also on Sound Mix, Certification and actor-names if URLs allowed this). Andy Mabbett 02:23, 22 May 2007 (PDT)
  • media-info microformat once there is one.
  • Requested 2007-08-31; received only a generic boilerplate reply. Does anyone have a direct contact there? Andy Mabbett

music reviews

• Discogs
  • hReview for album ratings, hCard for artist bios + record company details, hCard for user profiles, audio microformat, when ready, for discographies requested 2007-08-30 Andy Mabbett

book reviews

• LibraryThing
  • e.g. [2]

successes

• The Birder's Library
  • Requested; confirmed under development, 2006-12-18.
  • Success e.g. Audubon VideoGuide to 505 Birds of North America. Apparently from 2007-01-18 Andy Mabbett

see also

• advocacy