hreview-faq
hReview FAQ
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Q&A
- How do you specify more detail for the 'type' field, e.g. for an item of type "product" that is a book, or a movie (on DVD or in a theater), or a music CD? -- paraphrased from Dougal Campbell 11:54, 21 Jun 2005 (PDT)
- The 'type' field was kept delibrately coarse and simple. Any attempt to build a thorough and meaningful taxonomy of all specific types of things that can be reviewed would be futile. Instead, the set of reviewed item types is kept small and fairly generic. Specific "typing" information about the item being reviewed should be published as tags as defined in hReview. E.g. a review of a book would be tagged with a book tag:
<a rel="tag" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book">book</a>. Similarly a movie that was a DVD should be tagged with both:<a rel="tag" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie">movie</a> <a rel="tag" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD">DVD</a>. Or a music CD:<a rel="tag" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/music">music</a> <a rel="tag" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD">CD</a>.
- The 'type' field was kept delibrately coarse and simple. Any attempt to build a thorough and meaningful taxonomy of all specific types of things that can be reviewed would be futile. Instead, the set of reviewed item types is kept small and fairly generic. Specific "typing" information about the item being reviewed should be published as tags as defined in hReview. E.g. a review of a book would be tagged with a book tag:
- What is the difference between the 'website' and 'url' type? --Dougal Campbell 11:54, 21 Jun 2005 (PDT)
- A 'website' presumably includes everything located on that site, whereas 'url' refers only to the particular page located at the given 'url'.
- What if I want to use hReview to review a podcast? Which type should I use?
- As a podcast is typically a specific URL (often ending with ".mp3") the "url" item type should be used when publishing an hReview of a podcast.
- What is the proper 'type' to use for a restaurant?
- A restaurant is a "business".
- Is there a standard way to add information that isn't in the default list of fields? It seems like book reviews should include the author's name, but there's no obvious way to add it to the markup. The example reviews include it in the text, but it's not part of their markup. Chris Hibbert