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directory-proposal

2009-09-25T02:36:03Z

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<h1> hDirectory Proposal </h1>
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hDirectory is a proposal for an open, distributed directory ([[en-uk|UK English]]: link directory; classifieds) format suitable for embedding in (X)HTML. hDirectory is based on [[hListing]] and would be one of several [[microformats]] open standards.

== Draft Proposal 2008-11-20 ==

===Editor===
* Yuval Ararat, [http://www.yuvalararat.com/ Yuval Ararat]

===Authors===

===Contributors===

==Introduction==

Will be adding the details soon currentlly its on my website as a post.
[http://www.yuvalararat.com/hdirecory-microformat-idea hDirectory Microformat Idea]

== The Problem ==

While there are dozens of formats used on thousands of web directories, there is no single standardised format for presentation of web directory listings. Having a standardised directory listing format will significantly benefit readers, aggregators, search engines, automations and researchers alike.

== Thoughts on a Microformat for News ==

I found substantial base of attributes and fields with [[hListing]], and simplified an initial effort at a data format for directory listing using fields already in [[hListing]], the focus of this format is to add the required fields enabling you to create a meaningful Web Directory format.

The difference from the [[hListing]] is the purpose of the implementation and the core difference in the item properties and purpose, a Directory listing is an item with no associated price nor an expiry date, the ability to get the summery of the item in a condense format is one of the key parts of the listing.

The fields selected are a combination of the common fields from many of the Web Directory formats currently in use, and the introduction of new fields, '''TBD'''.

=== Common Directory Listing Fields ===
'''TBD'''.

== Issues ==

Please add new issues to the bottom of the [[news-brainstorming#Open_Issues|Open Issues]] section by copy and pasting the [[news-brainstorming#Issues_Template|Template]]. Please follow-up to resolved/rejected issues with new information rather than resubmitting such issues. Duplicate issue additions will be reverted.

=== Issues Template ===

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=== Current Issues ===
'''TBD'''.

directory-proposal

2008-11-23T13:47:05Z

Ararat:

directory-proposal

2008-11-23T13:46:19Z

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directory-proposal

2008-11-23T13:45:11Z

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User:Ararat

2008-11-23T06:46:39Z

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==Me==

<div class="vcard">

Hi,

I'm Yuval Ararat, from Sydney, Australia.

I blog at http://www.yuvalararat.com/
I'm known as ararat on some websites.

</div>

You can also find me on Twitter and Facebook, but please don't be offended that I only "befriend" with people I know well enough to share my home address and phone number with, to the latter.

==My background==

Been a software developer then an architect and consultant. Have done PM work for a couple of years and have been a Presales Engineer for some months. now back at the saddle as a Software Architect at Content Management vendor professional services.

==Web for all==

I strongly support the adoption of web standards, making web pages as accessible as possible, using the simplest language, to convey ideas clearly and efficiently to the world. Hence [[what-are-microformats#Yuval_Ararat|my proposal for a brief description of microformats]].

==My microformats interests==

I am the a follower of:

*[[rel-directory]]
*[[hlisting]]

I have proposed the
*[[hDirectory]]

==Browsing==
I usually surf with whatever is the latest formal release of [http://www.mozilla.com/ FireFox], using far too many extensions (including [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4106/ Operator] for parsing microformats), under Windows XP/ Mac OS X Leopard, on a 14.1" or 23" monitor.

==Censorship==

I object strongly to the attempts to block the internet from Australia and have joined the fight at v[http://nocleanfeed.com/ No Clean Feed].

==Copyright==
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==Scratchpad==
[[/scratchpad]]

==Overall==

...I'd rather be out riding.

:Keywords: Ararat, yuval, Sydney, Australia, Content Management, Software Architect

what-are-microformats

2008-11-23T06:46:20Z

Ararat:

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First time visitors, see the [[introduction]] page first.

<h1>What are microformats?</h1>
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== Launch Definition ==

The current definition on the [http://microformats.org home page] says:

<blockquote style="font-size:larger">Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.</blockquote>

originally written by Dan Cederholm with help from Tantek Çelik for the launch of [http://microformats.org microformats.org] on June 20th, 2005.

== From The Mailing List ==
<blockquote style="font-size:larger">Microformats are simple conventions for embedding semantics in HTML to enable decentralized development.</blockquote>

from someone on the microformats-discuss mailing list. Please link/cite if you know the origin of this.

== More Specifically From The Mailing List ==
One popular definition from our [http://microformats.org/discuss/ mailing list] (see also: [[mailing-lists]]) is "simple conventions for embedding semantics in HTML to enable decentralized development." More precisely, microformats can be defined as:
<blockquote style="font-size:larger" cite="http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2005-September/000922.html">
:simple conventions
:for embedding semantic markup
::for a specific problem domain
:in human-readable (X)HTML/XML documents, Atom/RSS feeds, and "plain" XML
::that normalize existing content usage patterns
::using brief, descriptive class names
::often based on existing interoperable standards
:to enable decentralized development
::of resources, tools, and services
</blockquote>

http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2005-September/000922.html by Dr. [http://ihack.us/ Ernie Prabhakar]

"Or do you just use your browser to browse? That's so 20th century." -- [http://diveintomark.org Mark Pilgrim]

== Chris Messina ==
<blockquote style="font-size:larger">
Microformats are simple codes that you can use to identify specific kinds of data, like people or events, in your webpages.
</blockquote>

== Tantek Çelik ==
<blockquote style="font-size:larger">Microformats are the way to publish and share information on the web with higher fidelity.For example, if a company wanted their contact information to be easily found and shared, they would publish it with [[hcard|hCard]]. Similarly if an organization is planning a series of events and wants more people to know about them and add them to their calendars, then they would publish their events listing with [[hcalendar|hCalendar]]. For advocacy groups, whenever they take a position on some political leader, some piece of legislation etc., if they wanted their evaluations/reviews/ratings of those people/laws to be more easily found and passed around, they would publish such opinions with [[hreview|hReview]]. For all of these, to make it easier, publishers can use [[implementations|tools and services that support microformats]].The key here is that microformats are simple/easy enough that the any organizations own web authors/designers can easily add them in themselves. Adding microformats is easier than publishing an RSS feed for example. You don't have to be a programmer. Anyone with decent (X)HTML+CSS authoring/writing skills can use microformats. Pretty much anyone who is literate can be taught how to author HTML+CSS, and thus microformats makes use of very widely available skill sets.</blockquote>

From an IRC conversation 2006-06-06 which helped "knowprose" grok microformats. Update 2006-06-07: knowprose's blog post [http://www.knowprose.com/node/15844 Making Sense of Microformats: Have Data, Will Find It].

<blockquote style="font-size:larger">microformats are carefully designed (X)HTML class names that extend the semantics of (X)HTML and enable authors to publish higher semantic fidelity content such as people, events, reviews, etc.</blockquote>

From an IRC conversation 2006-07-28 with tcaspers on irc.freenode.net/#wasp.

<blockquote style="font-size:larger">a microformat is way of adding more meaning to web pages beyond normal HTML headings and paragraphs, so you can indicate mentions of people, companies, events, reviews, tags, etc.</blockquote>

From an instant message conversation 2007-07-06.

== Drew McLellan ==
<blockquote style="font-size:larger">Microformats are a way of attaching extra meaning to the information published on a web page. This extra semantic richness works alongside the information already presented, and can be used for the benefit of people and computers. This is mostly done through adding special pre-defined names to the class attribute of existing XHTML markup.</blockquote>

from an IRC conversation

== Aaron Gustafson ==
Simply put: "Microformats are a codification of convention." -- [http://easy-reader.net Aaron Gustafson]

==Alok Jain==
<blockquote style="font-size:larger">microformats are evolving frameworks for how to present commonly used data items. For e.g. hCard microformat provides framework to capture a person's details First, middle, last name,company, contact info etc.</blockquote>

In my view this is doing two things:
*a Bringing some amount of standardization to commonly used data sets, which can lead to several benefits towards data retreival
*a Bringing an implicit meta data structure which again can be used to fetch informaiton at more granular level. SO in above example one could fetch just the company name, even thought there is not meta data around company name

[http://www.iPrincipia.com Alok Jain]

== Dave Sanford ==
Chris asked me to contribute my 'definition,' although I refer to it as a distillation:

“Microformats are a way of identifying and labeling classes of commonly used data that make it easier for humans or computers to locate or distribute such information on websites.”

==Andy Mabbett==
Here's my re-write of the current opening blurb, from:

<blockquote style="font-size:larger">Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.</blockquote>

to:

<blockquote style="font-size:larger;">Microformats are a way of adding simple markup to human-readable data items such as events, contact details or locations, on web pages, so that the information in them can be extracted by software and indexed, searched for, saved, cross-referenced or combined.</blockquote>

Which can be followed by:

<blockquote style="font-size:larger;">More technically, they are items of semantic markup, using just standard (X)HTML with a set of common class-names. They are open and available, freely, for anyone to use.</blockquote>

Principles:
*Start with "Microformats are"
*Mention web pages
*Say what purpose microformats serve
*Use plain language

== Guillaume Lebleu ==
<blockquote style="font-size:larger">Microformats are simple standardized annotations of content available on the Web that provide a practical solution today to more productive and decentralized Web-based information search and sharing. </blockquote>

<blockquote style="font-size:larger">In other words, Microformats allow you today to copy/paste information from a Web page, for instance someone's contact information from their blog to your address book, instead of manually retyping it. Eventually, microformats will allow anyone to make the information they publish easily sharable and searchable (products, events, resume, etc.) without having to duplicate and maintain up-to-date their data in centralized databases.</blockquote>

== BenWest ==
<blockquote style="font-size:larger;">
A microformat is a specific collection of names, values, and accompanying structure defined through rigorous market research intended to consider pervasive use of semantic html that increases data fidelity in HTML-borne data widely distributed on the web.

Microformats are more than one of these, eg "hcard and hcal are microformats."
</blockquote>

== DerrickPallas ==
<blockquote style="font-size:larger;">microformats are semantics with momentum, a codification of what everyone did anyway. They are what works, written down.</blockquote>

== Alessandro Martin ==
<blockquote style="font-size:larger;">
Microformats are frames for your contents. Using microformats you tell, in a way both humans and machines can understand, what is the basic meaning of what you are writing in a web document.
</blockquote>

written by [http://www.thinkpragmatic.net Alessandro Martin].

== Alan Hogan ==
<blockquote>
Microformats are a guarantee that anyone who wants to can grab certain types of data from your website without worrying much that a site redesign will require the to build a whole new parser.

Microformats is to people and comptuers what Java is to operating systems. Java programs are written once and run on Mac, Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc. Microformats-enabled web pages are written once and are understandable by both humans and computers.
</blockquote>

written by [http://alanhogan.com/ Alan Hogan].

==Hugh Macleod==

[http://flickr.com/photos/tantek/1385900792 http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1276/1385900792_0769162b18.jpg]

2007 September by [http://gapingvoid.com Hugh Macleod].

== Toby Inkster ==
<blockquote style="font-size:larger;">You know all that stuff you already have on your website? Microformats tell computers what that stuff is.
</blockquote>

== Asa Berdahl ==
<blockquote style="font-size:larger;">microformats are a set of rules that utilize present technology to make it not only more easily interactive, but human-friendly as well. microformats uses long standing practices of good web design techniques combined with simple changes in coding to make content far more than just plain text.</blockquote>

written by Asa Berdahl.

== Yuval Ararat ==
<blockquote style="font-size:larger;">Microformats are the incarnation of Semantic Web in the XHTML standard, they make text surrounded by markup relevant to its meaning and not its markup. The standardization effort that is collected here is the embodiment of the new Web 3.0.</blockquote>

written by Yuval Ararat.

== Add Yours Here ==
<blockquote style="font-size:larger;">microformats are...(insert your definition here)
</blockquote>

written by You.

'''Note:''' feedback on the existing definition or those on this page can be found in the [[definition-feedback]]. Please add feedback there (rather than inline here).

== See Also ==
* [[what-can-you-do-with-microformats]]
* [[faq]]
* [[definition-feedback]]

== Translation ==
* [[what-are-microformats-fr|c'est quoi les microformats]] (fr)

User:Ararat

2008-11-23T02:19:29Z

Ararat:

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==Me==

<div class="vcard">

Hi,

I'm Yuval Ararat, from Sydney, Australia.

I blog at http://www.yuvalararat.com/
I'm known as ararat on some websites.

</div>

You can also find me on Twitter and Facebook, but please don't be offended that I only "befriend" with people I know well enough to share my home address and phone number with, to the latter.

==My background==

Been a software developer then an architect and consultant. Have done PM work for a couple of years and have been a Presales Engineer for some months. now back at the saddle as a Software Architect at Content Management vendor professional services.

==Web for all==

I strongly support the adoption of web standards, making web pages as accessible as possible, using the simplest language, to convey ideas clearly and efficiently to the world. Hence [[what-are-microformats#Andy_Mabbett|my proposal for a brief description of microformats]].

==My microformats interests==

I am the a follower of:

*[[rel-directory]]
*[[hlisting]]

I have proposed the
*[[hDirectory]]

==Browsing==
I usually surf with whatever is the latest formal release of [http://www.mozilla.com/ FireFox], using far too many extensions (including [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4106/ Operator] for parsing microformats), under Windows XP/ Mac OS X Leopard, on a 14.1" or 23" monitor.

==Censorship==

I object strongly to the attempts to block the internet from Australia and have joined the fight at v[http://nocleanfeed.com/ No Clean Feed].

==Copyright==
{{cc-public-domain-release}}
==Scratchpad==
[[/scratchpad]]

==Overall==

...I'd rather be out riding.

:Keywords: Ararat, yuval, Sydney, Australia, Content Management, Software Architect

User:Ararat

2008-11-23T02:03:21Z

Ararat:

==Me==

<div class="vcard">

Hi,

I'm Yuval Ararat, from Sydney, Australia.

I blog at http://www.yuvalararat.com/
I'm known as ararat on some websites.

</div>

You can also find me on Twitter and Facebook, but please don't be offended that I only "befriend" with people I know well enough to share my home address and phone number with, to the latter.

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User:Ararat

2008-11-23T01:59:18Z

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