hcalendar-advocacy

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hCalendar advocacy

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

Here are sites that could use hCalendar to provide more/better functionality to their users.

event sites

Sites that host online calendars of different sorts, containing information from many different areas. (These could also make use of hCard, since they often contain contact information to a lot of different places.)

iCal Share

  • iCal share
    • Requested by e-mail. 2007-01-14
      • Reply recieved 2007-10-14 (!) confirming "definite plans to support microformats in the future". Andy Mabbett

conferences

travel itineraries

  • Dopplr is a site that lets users publish their travel plans to other users.
    • It would be great if they let you subscribe to external travel hCalendar (e.g. DanC travel) and incorporated it into your Dopplr travel data. Originally suggested by Dan Connolly.

government events

UK Gov hCalendar

concert and theatre listings

e.g. (please add other examples!):

sports fixtures

e.g. (please add other examples!):

television listings

  • A major coup would be to get one of the major players (the BBC, Sky, or PBS, say), to mark up their TV or radio listings with hCalendar - does anyone have contacts in such an organisation? Andy Mabbett 10:53, 21 Oct 2006 (PDT)
    • Does anyone have URLs to the TV or radio listings of the major players? Getting those URLs would be the next step, and then doing the markup ourselves would be the next step after that. Tantek 13:02, 21 Oct 2006 (PDT)

e.g. (please add other examples!):

ideas for possible hCalendar sites

Travel Industry

any travel site is based on calender type data! Airlines, Hotels etc. Sure it will be nice to get your reservation confirmation, but what about suppliers "syndicating" their product details that are calendar based? This would allow any other to mash-up supplier offerings. Sorry no examples... but I hope this will stimulate others to add some if the know them or just to make others think about possibilities.

past or historical

Many sites contain reference to past events which would still benefit from markup with hCalendar for findability, time search, and constructing timelines.

W3C track at WWW2006

  • DanC offers a 150 point bounty to anybody who takes the W3C track at WWW2006 and adds hCalendar markup and sends it to connolly@w3.org,www-archive@w3.org
    • DanC, did this happen? Could you renew your bounty for WWW2008 etc.?

see also