review-examples

Review Examples

There have been several efforts to define data formats for posting "reviews" of products, services etc. on the Web.

This page serves to document the current list of review examples from real world sites for the design of a simple reviews microformat. -Tantek

Contributors

Copied from reviews-formats which itself was contributed from Technorati Developer's Wiki: ReviewsFormats)

• Tantek Çelik
• Niall Kennedy

See Also

• review-formats
• review-brainstorming
• hReview

Examples on the Web

Notice that author appears several times in the list below, and that it sometimes refers to the author of the review, and other times to the author of the book being reviewed. A parenthetical will be used to distinguish them now.

Centralized Implementations

Insider Pages

Customer reviews of local businesses

• http://www.insiderpages.com

• • author (review author)
  • rating (0 - 5 stars)
  • business name
  • review title
  • review
  • pros
  • cons
  • business category
  • business address
  • business phone number
  • business e-mail address
  • business website

Amazon.com

• http://www.amazon.com/

• • author (book author)
  • publication date
  • title
  • description
  • rating (1 to 5 stars)
    • overall and by category
      • declared value and a maximum possible value
• vote for or against component

Mini-review

Mini reviews are limited to products on some areas of the site.

• rating (1 to 5 stars)
  • Their mini-review interface has an 'x,' but this does not mean a rating of '0,' but in their own verbiage 'Unrated.' So the interval is 1 to 5 starts, not 0 to 5 stars. --RyanKing 11:43, 18 Jan 2006 (PST)
• ownership status ([x] I own this)
• negative interest ([x] Not interested)

Blogcritics

• http://blogcritics.org/

• author (review author)
• title
• publication date
• description
• reviewed work identifier
• reviewed work title
• reviewed work version
  • release date
  • Volume, issue
  • edition
  • translation
• reviewed work author(s)
• reviewed work publisher

Consumer Reviews

• reviewed item
• reviewed item version
• rating
  • overall 1-100
  • by category 1-5
• definition list of specifications

Epinions

• http://epinions.com/

• author (review author)
• publication date
• title
• summary ("the bottom line")
• description
• rating overall and by category
• positive summary
• negative summary
• cost
• vote for or against product
• vote for or against review

Web site or page reviews

• http://en-us.sitereviews.org/
• http://www.stumbleupon.com/

Yahoo! Local

• http://local.yahoo.com/

• author (review author)
• publication date
• title
• description
• rating
  • overall and by category [1-5]
• positive summary
• negative summary

Restaurant

• usage datetime
• specific use

Nearlocal

• http://www.nearlocal.com/

Yelp

• http://www.yelp.com/

SF Survey

• http://sfsurvey.com/

Zagat

• rating by category
• cost
• description

delicious 3rd party

• http://alf.hubmed.org/rvw.htm

• rating (0-100%)
• tags (keywords, year, user-specified others)
• artist/author (work author)
• title
• URL
• comments
• unique identifier

iTunes XML

• rating (0-100%)

review world

• http://www.revieworld.com/

Dinner Buzz

• http://www.dinnerbuzz.com/

Analysis of Examples

Common review fields

• item
  • optional:type of item (business, Web page/site, product, event, person, place, file, text)
  • name/title of item being reviewed (string | ["hCard"] if business or person)
    • optional:URL (all additional information should be somewhere else, not in the review itself)
    • optional:image (URL)
• reviewer (["hCard"]|name|email|URL)
• review publication/authoring date (ISO8601 datetime)
• rating 1 to 5 (default max = 5, default min = 1)
• optional:tags (keyword,rating)*
• optional:comments (string)

See Also

• review-formats
• review-brainstorming
• hReview

See hReview for the result and evolution of these thoughts on a microformat.