[uf-discuss] microformats for tagspeak ?

[S. Sriram]

FYI:
I've put up the tagspeak-examples page on the wiki.
http://microformats.org/wiki?title=tagspeak-examples

Thanks
S. Sriram

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dr. Ernie Prabhakar" <drernie at opendarwin.org>
To: "Microformats Discuss" <microformats-discuss at microformats.org>
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] microformats for tagspeak ?


> Hi Sriram,
> 
> A fascinating question.   To make this more concrete, in  
> microformat's own wiki I would love to be able to specify "rel" for  
> links and "class" for data in MediaWiki syntax without having to  
> write out all the HTML.
> 
> I think there's certainly something worthwhile there, though I'm not  
> sure what.  Care to create a tagspeak-examples page?
> 
> -- Ernie P.
> 
> On Nov 10, 2005, at 8:31 PM, S. Sriram wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to know if tagspeak is something that microformats could  
> > attempt to
> > formalize ?
> >
> > tagspeak is the way in which everday users construct tags.
> > tags are currently constructed in one of two ways:
> > 1. with a link using the rel-tag or in gada.be's case using  
> > tag.gada.be
> > 2. in plain text as in delicious, flickr and other taggable services
> >
> > Punctuations that are in use with tags are
> >
> > @ to denote a group in shadows.com and jots.com
> > : to denote a separator in the the proposed delicious groups  
> > formulation
> >   groupname: tag [1]
> > + To denote a tag intrsection in delicious/technorati and takes
> >   the place of a space
> > - used by gada.be in the same way as + is used by others
> > = As a delimiter to denote an iname [2]
> >
> > For a  few other tagspeak models see my blog [3]
> >
> > I wonder if this is something that fits within the microformats
> > umbrella and if so has there been any work done on it ?
> >
> > [1] http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/ 
> > berkman_joshua_schachter.html
> > [2]
> > http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/itag/itag.cfm? 
> > save=true&pname=itag&purlname=ita
> > g&wname=itag
> > [3] http://sriram.wordpress.com/
> >
> > Thanks
> > S. Sriram
> >
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