[uf-discuss] Fwd: Timeline and microformats

[Chris Messina]

Nice! I'll play around with this... thanks.

 Now, if only this[1] had been done up in microformats:

[1]http://www.shmula.com/blog/timelines/google-microsoft-yahoo/g-y-m.htm

Chris

On 11/6/06, David Janes <davidjanes at blogmatrix.com> wrote:
> Try this [1].
>
> Notes:
> - all the '@' keys are derived information that may (or may not) be
> useful: in particular, look at @title and @url
> - because values in hCard and hCalendar can belong to multiple keys in
> interesting ways, I put all the applicable keys '.' separated. I also
> use this for expressing subkeys (i.e. 'n.given-name').
>
> I'm open to suggestions for improvements.
>
> Regards, etc...
>
> [1] http://tinyurl.com/y5re6r
>
> On 11/6/06, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'd seen this work before and thought it the perfect implementation
> > opportunity for MFs. I even added the WordPress plugin to my about
> > page [1] -- but wht I really wanted to do was map the hAtom posts on
> > my blog (since K2 supports hAtom) on to the Simile UI as an
> > alternative browsing UI.
> >
> > If we can get an hAtom to JSON converter as well, perhaps this idea
> > could happen?
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > [1] http://factoryjoe.com/blog/whats-this-all-about
> >
> > On 11/5/06, Brian Suda <brian.suda at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 11/4/06, Kevin Marks <kmarks at technorati.com> wrote:
> > > > seen http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/ ?
> > > >
> > > > I contacted the author - what's the best existing 'hCalendar to JSON'
> > > > tool?
> > >
> > > --- i'll spare everyone all the implementation details, but i have
> > > been trying to refactor alot of the XSLT code so that it is easier to
> > > choose an output format. Until i finished, the quickest and easiest
> > > hCal->JSON converter would be to take the open-source XSLT[1] and just
> > > replace the output text from DTSTART to the corresponding JSON
> > > ["dtstart": ... ]
> > >
> > > -brian
> > >
> > > [1] - http://hg.microformats.org/x2v
> > >
> > > > Begin forwarded message:
> > > >
> > > > > From: David Huynh <dfhuynh at csail.mit.edu>
> > > > > Date: November 3, 2006 6:54:57 AM PST
> > > > > To: Kevin Marks <kevinmarks at mac.com>
> > > > > Subject: Re: Timeline and microformats
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks, Kevin. As far as I understand, hCalendar is for embedding
> > > > > calendar attributes within HTML. Is there an efficient way to gather
> > > > > these attributes distributed all over the DOM? If you can do that,
> > > > > then it's not hard to construct event objects and feed them to
> > > > > Timeline.
> > > > >
> > > > > David
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Kevin Marks wrote:
> > > > >> Your Timeline is a string piece of work, and it seems a perfect fit
> > > > >> for the hCalendar microformat:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar
> > > > >>
> > > > >> This is very close to your existing xml structure, but is already
> > > > >> widely adopted across the web, for example by Yahoo Local,
> > > > >> upcoming.org and evdb.com
> > > > >>
> > > > >
> > > >
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> > >
> > >
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