persondata

Persondata

A comparison between Wiikipedia's persondata and the hCard microformat.

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Shared attributes

PERSONDATA	hCard HTML class names
-	vcard required (outer wrapper; can not be on element as its children)
NAME	fn required
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	nickname
SHORT DESCRIPTION	note
DATE OF BIRTH	bday
PLACE OF BIRTH	not in hCard
DATE OF DEATH	not in hCard, but proposed as an extension
PLACE OF DEATH	not in hCard

Notes

"fn" can be sub-divided:

• n
  • honorific-prefix
  • given-name
  • additional-name
  • family-name
  • honorific-suffix

hCard attributes not in Persondata, but in Wikipedia infoboxes

• category (tag)
• photo
• url

Notes

• Persondata could use the Wikipedia page URL for the hCard url property, or the URL given in an infobox.
• Data matching other hCard properties (adr, geo, org, etc.) may be found in Wikipedia infoboxes for organisations and venues.

Persondata attributes not in hCard

Persondata could use, for example:

PLACE OF BIRTH	birthplace
DATE OF DEATH	dday or dod
PLACE OF DEATH	deathplace

Other properties

• Persondata is hidden metadata; hCard is for data published on the page.
• Persondata is for people; hCard can also be used for organisations and venues

Example mark-up

Wikpedia infobox

<table class="infobox">
<tr>
  <th colspan="3">John Doe</th>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td colspan="3"><a href="xxx/xxx.jpg" class="image" ><img src="xxx/yyy.jpg" alt="xxx"></a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><b>Birth name</b></td>
  <td colspan="2">James Johannes Doeville</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><b>Born</b></td>
  <td colspan="2">3 April 1924</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati">Cincinnati</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ohio">Ohio</a>, <a href="/wiki/USA">USA</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><b>Died</b></td>
  <td colspan="2">22 May 1977</a>, <a href="/wiki/Birmingham">Birmingham</a>, <a href="/wiki/England">England</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<tr>
  <td><b>Website</b></td>
  <td colspan="2"><a href="http://www.example.com/" class="external text">John Doe tribute page</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
<nowiki><pre>

===Persondata===
(Styled to be invisible by defualt)
<table id="persondata" class="persondata">
<tr>
  <th colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Persondata" title="Wikipedia:Persondata">Persondata</a></th>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td class="persondata-label">NAME</td>
  <td>Doe, John</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td class="persondata-label">ALTERNATIVE NAMES</td>
  <td>Doeville, James Johannes</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td class="persondata-label">SHORT DESCRIPTION</td>
  <td>singer, actress, animal welfare advocate</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td class="persondata-label">DATE OF BIRTH</td>
  <td><a href="/wiki/April_3" title="April 3">3 April</a> <a href="/wiki/1924" title="1924">1924</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td class="persondata-label">PLACE OF BIRTH</td>
  <td><a href="/wiki/Cincinnati" title="Cincinnati">Cincinnati</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a>, <a href="/wiki/USA" title="USA">USA</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td class="persondata-label">DATE OF DEATH</td>
  <td><a href="/wiki/May_22" title="May 22">22 May</a> <a href="/wiki/1977" title="1977">1977</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td class="persondata-label">PLACE OF DEATH</td>
  <td><a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></td>
</tr>
</table>

===Suggested combination infobox, with hCard===

<pre><nowiki>
<table class="infobox vcard">
<tr>
  <th colspan="3" class="fn">John Doe</th>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td colspan="3"><a href="xxx/xxx.jpg" class="image" ><img src="xxx/yyy.jpg" alt="xxx"></a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><b>Birth name</b></td>
  <td colspan="2" class="nickname>James Johannes Doeville</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><b>Born</b></td>
  <td colspan="2"><abbr class= "bday" title="1924-04-03">3 April 1924</abbr></a>, <span class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Cincinnati">Cincinnati</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ohio">Ohio</a>, <a href="/wiki/USA">USA</a></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><b>Died</b></td>
  <td colspan="2"><abbr tclass= "dday" title="1977-05-22">22 May 1977</abbr></a>, <span "class=deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Birmingham">Birmingham</a>, <a href="/wiki/England">England</a></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<tr>
  <td><b>Website</b></td>
  <td colspan="2"><a href="http://www.example.com/" class="external text url">John Doe tribute page</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td><b>Briefly...</b></td>
  <td colspan="2" class="note">Treacle-bender and spaghetti-knitter</td>
</tr>
</table>
<nowiki><pre>

==Related pages==
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