alternates-examples

2009-01-05T10:09:07Z

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= Introduction =
This page is to collect examples of '''alternates''', that is, places where a user may be given several different items to choose amongst that at some logical level are considered equivalent.

== Discussion Participants ==

=== Editor ===
* [http://blogmatrix.blogmatrix.com/ David Janes], [http://www.blogmatrix BlogMatrix, Inc.]

=== Authors ===
* [http://blogmatrix.blogmatrix.com/ David Janes], [http://www.blogmatrix BlogMatrix, Inc.]
* Lucas Gonze
* Greg Borenstein

=== Interested Folks ===

= Specific Examples from the Wild =

== MediaRSS ==
Yahoo's [http://search.yahoo.com/mrss Media RSS] provides the <media:group> tag to group alternate choices for the same media file together. Here's an example from their spec:

<pre><nowiki>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Song Site</title>
<link>http://www.foo.com</link>
<description>Songs galore at different bitrates</description>
<item>
<title>Cool song by an artist</title>
<link>http://www.foo.com/item1.htm</link>
<media:group>
<media:content url="http://www.foo.com/song64kbps.mp3"
fileSize="1000" bitrate="64" type="audio/mpeg"
isDefault="true" expression="full"/>
<media:content url="http://www.foo.com/song128kbps.mp3"
fileSize="2000" bitrate="128" type="audio/mpeg"
expression="full"/>
<media:content url="http://www.foo.com/song256kbps.mp3"
fileSize="4000" bitrate="256" type="audio/mpeg"
expression="full"/>
<media:content url="http://www.foo.com/song512kbps.mp3.torrent"
fileSize="8000" type="application/x-bittorrent;enclosed=audio/mpeg"
expression="full"/>
<media:content url="http://www.foo.com/song.wav"
fileSize="16000" type="audio/x-wav" expression="full"/>
<media:credit role="musician">band member 1</media:credit>
<media:credit role="musician">band member 2</media:credit>
<media:category>music/artist name/album/song</media:category>
<media:rating>nonadult</media:rating>
</media:group>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
</nowiki></pre>

Note the mixing of alternates and related metadata together under the group tag.

== hVlog ==

The [http://vpip.org/ vPIP] (Videos Playing in Place) library uses a format called [http://formats.cinegage.com/index.php?title=HVlog hVlog] to identify media enclosures in blog posts.

= See Also =
* [[alternates-examples]]
* [[alternates-formats]]
* [[alternates-brainstorming]]
* [[media-metadata-examples]] -- Yahoo's Media RSS uses this

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