to-do

2006-08-01T22:28:31Z

DavidB: /* Lazyweb */

<h1>To Do</h1>

This page is for posting [[microformats]] related shared to do items. If you want to use this page for your microformats related to-do items, create a section with your name on it. The reason we are keeping these all on the same page is to make it easier to tell when people are working on similar things, and to make it more obvious when people help out with other people's tasks. In theory this probably won't scale, but let's first see how it does in practice. :) - [http://tantek.com Tantek]

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== Lazyweb ==

Just some nice things, feel free to do any of these.

=== for all microformats ===
* quick and easy "how to" pages for each microformat. [[use]] is a good overall start.
* brief summary statements for each microformat that explain why it matters, what does it accomplish for the publisher.
* write up [http://microformats.org/discuss/ mailing-list] questions and answers in the appropriate [[faq]] pages.
* validators. See the hReview section below as there has been a request for an hReview validator in particular. See [http://norman.walsh.name/2006/04/13/validatingMicroformats Norman Walsh's blog post "Validating microformats"] for some valuable analysis and validation pseudo-code (prose description), which are useful steps towards building microformat validators.
* Create a microformat (based on hCalendar?) for marking up the opening hours of stores and restaurants. Some people seem to believe hCalenders repeating event support isn't good enough for this and needs to be amended first.

=== hReview ===
* [[hreview|hReview]] support in Ecto (hey Adriaan!), requested by Andy Smith
* an [[hreview|hReview]] validator.
* a semantic, clean css star rating picker (e.g. a UI widget to rate from 1-5 stars)
** both [http://komodomedia.com/blog/index.php/2005/08/24/creating-a-star-rater-using-css/ this] and [http://factorycity.net/demos/drupal/rating/default.html this] have some flaws. Ask [[User:RyanKing|Ryan King]] for an explanation.

=== hCard ===
* microformatted versions of conference pages
** Do a revision of the [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/etel2006/ ETel] [http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/44/speakers.html speaker's page] with all the speakers marked up with [[hcard|hCard]] and links to "Add hCards to Address Book" etc., similar to the [http://tantek.com/microformats/2005/web2/speakers.html Web 2.0 speakers page which Tantek did a revision of last fall].
* vcard to hcard converter
** would be nice to have a web upload UI that would take one or more vCards from apple's address book and give them back to you as hCards
** [[User:RobertBachmann | RobertBachmann]] suggests starting points:
*** For Ruby: http://vpim.rubyforge.org/
*** For C: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libvc/
*** For Python: http://www.nongnu.org/python-pdi/
*** For PHP: http://pear.php.net/package/Contact_Vcard_Parse/
* add export support for microformats to [http://www.turingart.com/abForWeb_lan__en.htm AB to Web]
* A mash-up with google maps that will take any url with a hcard (or hcard's) and map the location(s) on a map (similar to [http://austin.adactio.com/ austin.adactio.com])

=== hCalendar/hCard/hReview editor ===
* onblur in the URL field (e.g. on hCalendar), goes out and tries to retrieve an object of same time (e.g. an hCalendar vevent) from that URL and uses it to autofill the form, same thing if the creator is loaded with that URL prefilled (e.g. due to a ?url=http://example.com/ in the URL that loads the creator).

=== WordPress patches for microformats ===
* submit patches for WordPress code/templates for microformats improvement
** <address class="vcard"> improvement in post author publication (e.g. home page of http://microformats.org/ )
* Wordpress plugin for microformats, specifically hReview and hCalendar
** See [http://www.surfarama.com/index.php?p=227 lazyweb request]

=== Yahoo Open Source Library Patches ===

Several of these could very much be improved with a little microformats markup. Do we just make patches and submit them? Contact Nate Koechley at Yahoo (see Tantek for contact info) to follow-up.

* [http://developer.yahoo.net/yui/ Yahoo! User Interface Library]
* [http://developer.yahoo.net/ypatterns/ Yahoo! Design Patterns Library]
* [http://www.yuiblog.com Yahoo! User Interface Blog]

=== Drupal patches for microformats ===
* submit patches for Drupal code/templates for microformats improvement
* Drupal modules for microformats, specifically hReview and hCalendar

=== Adding Markup to Existing Pages (W3C track at WWW2006) ===

* DanC offers a 150 point bounty to anybody who takes [http://www.w3.org/2006/05/w3c-track the W3C track at WWW2006] and adds hCalendar markup and sends it to connolly@w3.org,www-archive@w3.org

== Tantek ==

I'm keeping a few microformats related to-do items here both for my own convenience, and for folks looking to help out with small tasks. If so, just create a new section with your name, and and maybe copy the item there, and put your name next to the item in my list. We'll figure this out as we go along. Thanks, [http://tantek.com Tantek].

=== *-authoring microformats wiki pages ===
* Add some tips to [[hcard-authoring]]
** a tutorial on creating an hCard for your site
** specific instructions for common blogging platforms
** instructions for more properties (match at least the set that is in the [http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator hCard creator]
* Create [[hreview-authoring]] - a tutorial on how to blog reviews so that they'll be aggregated.

=== for all microformat specs ===
* modularize any specs which are > 30K in order to avoid loss/corruption like [http://microformats.org/wiki?title=Special:Contributions&target=Evan Evan's 14 June edits] to [[hcard|hCard]], [[rel-tag]], and [[xoxo|XOXO]].
** [[hcard|hCard]] - need to create new pages for [[hcard-examples-in-the-wild]] (perhaps grouped/ sorted by individuals, organizations, and hosting sites?), [[hcard-implementations]] at a minimum to separate out that content, and leave short summaries in their existing place inline in the [[hcard|hCard]] spec.
** [[rel-tag]]
** [[xoxo]]

==== reorganizing Implementations sections ====

* sort implementations by authoring/creating/publishing, browsing/viewing, converting/importing, indexing/searching.

Hmmm... I like: '''A'''uthoring, '''B'''rowsing, '''C'''onverting, '''I'''ndexing, '''L'''ibraries (for developers), and '''P'''otential (for open source projects we want to add support to). Anybody have alternative suggestions for this vocabulary? I don't have a particularly strong preference so I'm going to go with these four until I find examples that don't fit, or someone suggests something better.

See: [http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar#Implementations hCalendar Implementations] for a first attempt at this. Assuming folks like that, we can go ahead with categorizing the implementations sections of other microformats specifications.

==== reorganizing Examples in the Wild sections ====

* include more *key* details per example, e.g. precise or estimates of counts for services
* collate/sort examples in the wild by
** hosting services - where users/people actively contribute to the growth (e.g. Flickr profile hCards)
** publishing services - where lots of data is published from some datasource/database (e.g. Yahoo! Local)
** companies/groups/organizations member pages (and their own) - pages for a group's site where they list members or employees (e.g. Technorati staff page)
** individiual companies/organizations contact info pages
** individual people's contact info pages
* of course at some point this won't scale, but that will be a very good problem to have, and by then I'm sure we'll have services to point to that provide queries and search results for all this data.

==== summary Examples in the Wild page ====

* need to create a summary / overall [[examples-in-the-wild]] page
** parallel the summary/overall [[implementations]] page.
** use newly reoganized content from the above "reoganizing Examples in the Wild" task

=== iterate on current microformats ===
==== [[hreview|hReview]] ====
* Write hReview 0.3 XMDP profile, and reconcile with [[hcalendar-profile]] and [[hcard-profile]]. Makes sense to have a combined profile of all three for hReview, since hReview normatively depends on hCard and hCalendar.

==== [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] ====
* formalize [http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar- brainstorming#Tabular_event_calendars]
* flesh out [[hcalendar-examples]] and do a once over on markup/presentation of what RFC2445 examples would look like
* need spec details and then [[hcalendar-examples]] of multi-instance [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] events
* need spec details and then [[hcalendar-examples]] of repeating events
* add explicit explanation and examples for LOCATION [[hcard|hCards]] and ATTENDEE [[hcard|hCards]], perhaps on a separate [[hcalendar-examples]] page.
* need to resolve all outstanding [[hcalendar-issues]] to-do items.
* create [[hcalendar-profile]] and have folks verify it. note that it will likely need reconciliation with the [[hcard-profile]], especially since [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] normatively depends on [[hcard|hCard]]. Probably makes sense to have a combined profile which hCalendar would use.

==== [[hcard|hCard]] ====
* [[hcard-examples]]
** add examples of [[hcard|hCard]]s with work telephone, mailing address etc.
** add examples of marking up an organization vs. a person, then link to it from [http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard#Organization_Contact_Info hCard spec section on Organization Contact Info].
** add example of organization-name and organization-unit usage.
* Examples in the wild - need to create a new page for them!
** Group examples in the wild according to:
*** Individuals - one card per person, perhaps sort alphabetically
*** Organizations - one card per organization, alphabetical again
*** Institutions (which list more than one person), with a count estimating the # of hCards, e.g. 40k for Avon
*** Online Profiles (which host profiles for more than one person) with a count estimating the # of hCards, e.g. 3.5m for Flickr.com
*** Online Venues (which provide listings for businesses or organizations) with a count estimating the # of venues, e.g. ~10k for Upcoming.org
*** Speakers Listings (lists of speakers on conference sites) with a count estimating the # of speakers, e.g. ~300 for SXSW 2006.
** help dglazkov markup: http://glazkov.com/blog/archive/2003/12/17/147.aspx

=== introduction / community ===
* microformats-discuss
** introductory email sent to new subscribers needs to direct people to [[process]] and [[how-to-play]]
* Need to add more to the [[naming-principles]], to cover in particular:
** avoid using the same name to mean two things
** avoid using two names to mean the same thing
** seek to keep the microformats vocabulary minimal, memorable, and usable.

=== profiles ===

* update XMDP with new required features:
** ability for one profile to include/import another (rel="import" ?)
** ability to reference an XMDP via rel="profile" (similar to XHTML2 rel value by same name)
** ability/suggestion to reference an XMDP using <a href> in addition to <link>

=== microformat parsing documentation ===
* Add XPath equivalents where appropriate in [[hcard-parsing]]

=== create microformats wiki pages for ===
* *-authoring for all microformats
* *-parsing for all microformats

=== improve usability and automation on the site ===
* figure out how to get wordpress to autopost blog posts to the microformats-announce list
** ideally use the from address of the author of the blog post
** maybe photomatt knows how to do this.

=== help with microformat implementations ===
* wordpress improvements
** WP admin for new profiles
*** should simply read blog URL
*** look for hcards and parse them
* [http://gmpg.org/xfn/creator XFN Creator] localizations
** Get someone to verify the [http://gmpg.org/xfn/creator-ru XFN Creator Russian localization].
** Add it to the [http://gmpg.org/xfn/tools XFN Tools] page.
** Add rel="alternate" href="creator-ru" <link>s to the other XFN Creators.
* Conference Schedule Creator
** We need to ASAP build a simple conference schedule creator (and editor?) that builds upon the hCalendar creator. We should make it *trivial* for conference organizers to build/edit/publish an [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] schedule for their conference, including auto-generated "Subscribe..." link which produces the proper "webcal:..." link with X2V. Note: see the "axis" and "header" attributes in HTML4, specifically in the section on Tables.

=== help with microformat examples in the wild ===
Go over all "common" pages (both logged out and logged in states) of the following sites which have some microformats already, and verify each page is as microformatted as it can be with high fidelity [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] and [[hcard|hCard]] etc. Document full support of each implementation's microformats on the implementations page (perhaps create a separate page for each implementation, e.g. [[flickr]], [[upcoming]], [[eventful]] etc.) Document any exceptions as needed. In no particular order:
* Flickr.com (3.5m hCards)
* Upcoming.org (100k hCalendar events, 100k hCard venues)
** home page
* Eventful.com (100k hCalendar events, 100k hCard venues)
* Yahoo! Tech (300k products with hReviews)
* JudysBook.com (???k hReviews)
* ... lots more, get from "Implementations" and "Examples in the Wild" sections of specs.

=== help with new microformat requests ===
* expense reports (really just a list of "expense" items), [http://flickr.com/photos/edyson/56774178/ requested by ED], should look at UBL as a pre-existing format
* photo-notes microformat
** clean up Subethaedit notes from working session with Greg Elin, Ryan King, Kevin Marks, Suw Charman and email to folks and figure out next steps
** iterate on [[photo-note-examples]] and start [[photo-note-formats]] and [[photo-note-brainstorming]].

* Can we make "microformat" and "microformats" into [http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/01/14/the-case-for-community-marks/ Community Marks]?

==Ryan==
=== hCalendar/hCard/hReview creator improvements ===
* get all creators working in IE/Win, IE/Mac, Safari/OSX.3

=== other ===
* add an example of how to use DURATION in hcalendar see http://www.policyawareweb.org/2005/ftf2/paw-mtg#item15) -> verify http://svn.lifelint.com/hcalendar_tests/calendar-todo-multiple-attendees-and-alarm.xml

=== rel-payment ===
* update rel-payment to reference the IANA registry [http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-announce/current/msg02055.html]

=== hcalendar ===
* make sure we explicitly disallow 'vjournal'

== Dimitri Glazkov ==

* Figure out REST/Microformats thing
* Work on result set idea
* Implement h-creators using Web Forms 2.0

== Chris Messina ==

* Work on a microformat for play-lists (is it just a XOXO ordererd list of play-items?)
* Work on a microformat for play-item (take a look at [[media-info-examples]])
* Work on microformats tutorial for designers

=== Wishlist ===

* Microformat for "buyable items" (see [[listing-examples]] and related documents)
* Location MF -- right click "map this" (see [[geo]] and [[adr]])
* Better hCard support in the browser -- right click "IM this person...", "Add to contacts" (see [http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2006/03/20/flocktails-for-flock/ Flocktails])
* Better hCal support -- support many views of same hCal data on one page using XSLT
* We need something that a designer/web programmer can come to and leave w/ 2 examples of each microformat that they can apply right away... a "microformats styleguide for designers", if you will.
* invoicing microformat
* better microformats wiki theme

== Robert Bachmann ==

=== hCard Creator ===
* [http://microformats.org/code/hcard/creator hCard creator] - add features/fields
** aim / instant messaging contact info, using the techniques documented in [[hcard-examples#New_Types_of_Contact_Info|hCard Examples: New Types of Contact Info]]
*** consider a popup menu for the IM service (AIM|Yahoo|...), and a field next to it for the IM id.

=== hAtom2Atom ===

Some ideas for features which could be implemented :

(If you are interested in one of this features, add "<i>+1 Your Name</i>")

<ul>
<li>
Join all hfeed's inside a page (or a fragment thereof) into one feed using [http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc4287.html#element.source atom:source] semantics.
</li>
<li>
Extraction of <code>atom:content</code>, <code>atom:summary</code> and <code>atom:title</code>:
* <code>atom:content</code> and <code>atom:summary</code> as HTML
* <code>atom:content</code> and <code>atom:summary</code> as plain-text
* <code>atom:title</code> as XHTML
* <code>atom:title</code> as HTML
</li>
<li>Support for other XSLT engines:
* MSXML
* .Net System.Xml
* Sablotron
* Oracle XSLT
* XT
</li>
<li>Support for other output formats: (hAtom2<i>xyz</i>.xsl)
* RSS 2.0 (meanwhile use hAtom2Atom.xsl and [http://atom.geekhood.net/ atom2rss.xsl])
* RSS 1.0 (meanwhile use hAtom2Atom.xsl and [http://cvs.4suite.org/viewcvs/uogbuji/atom2rss.xslt atom2rss.xslt])
* AtomOWL (meanwhile use hAtom2Atom.xsl and [http://dannyayers.com/2005/11/22/atomowl-xslt-progress/ atom2rdfxml.xsl])
* JSON?
</li>
</ul>

([[User:Singpolyma|singpolyma]] 01:02, 9 May 2006 (PDT) -- Not XSLT, but see http://xoxotools.ning.com/hatom2rss.php for hatom to RSS2.0 conversion)

== Brian Suda ==
=== Citation Microformats ===
* Add all my notes to the Wiki
* Start the process of naming the properties using existing names

=== X2V ===
Make changes and update site (almost stable)
Get ATTENDEE and other strange attributes working
==== WARNINGS and ERROR ====
work on the warnings and error output for the pre-check in X2V

=== FAQ ===
* clean-up the MF FAQs
* clean-up FAQs from the major microformats
* pull Questions from the mailing list and document them to the FAQs and example

== Mark Rickerby ==

=== Current Tasks ===

* Follow up on usability review
** Edits to homepage feature box text
** Draft of [[getting-started]] page
* Review content for new pages - [[start-simple]], [[modularity]], [[reuse]], [[humans-first]]
* xoxo datatype examples
** test case lists
** transmitting key/value lists
* practical feedback on hresume

=== Wishlist ===

* hmmm

== Ernest Prabhakar ==
=== Wiki-Thon Proposal ===
Set aside several hours (probably a Friday night US PST) for focused work on the Wiki, including both physical (e.g., a room in the Bay Area) and virtual (IRC/iChat) participants.

==== Goals ====
# Improve understanding of what needs to be done for Wiki
#* IMHO - this should be done here, in [[to-do]] incrementally. -Tantek
# Tackle larger projects (~1-2 hours) than people usually have time for
#* I'd like to see these projects *documented* first on [[to-do]] before we spend 1-2 hours of a bunch of folk's collective time to go through them. -Tantek
# Motivate community to have fun with otherwise tedious "housecleaning" chores

==== Agenda (Wishlist) ====
In parallel:
* Coalesce/prioritize existing To-Do items (above)
* Review/revise desired pathways for:
** New users learning about microformats
*** e.g., intro, about, explore, tutorials, etc.
*** cf. [http://www.rubyonrails.com/ Rails] front page
****Get Excited (Why, background, motivation)
****Get Started (What, downloads, getting started)
****Get Better (How, tutorials, )
****Get Involved (Who)
** Microformat lifecycle
*** e.g., research->brainstorm->proposal->spec->maintain
*** see http://theryanking.com/microformats/method.txt --[[User:RyanKing|RyanKing]] 15:35, 22 Feb 2006 (PST)
*** ensure information easy to find, follow, and up-to-date
* Review existing specs for completeness and consistency
* Identify areas of 'bitrot' or 'hole-filling'
* Do it!

== Dan Connolly ==

[[User:DanC|DanC]] hopes to sync up on these tasks in [[irc]] roughly
weekly, during Wednesday afternoon (Chicago time) "office hours". See also my [http://esw.w3.org/topic/DanConnolly esw todo list and someday pile].

* from SxSW in Austin
** build a combined hcalendar/hcard profile; resolve issues in [[profile-uris]].
*** with XSLT transformation to RDF
** finish [[hcard-tests]]
*** figure out [[include-pattern]] boundaries

* Medium term
** sync [[hcalendar-tests]] and [http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/ RDF calendar] tests and CALSIFY
*** reconsider RDF calendar naming conventions
** update my CV/resume using [[hResume]] and [[citation-formats]]
*** get an answer from the CALSIFY WG re [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-calendar/2006Apr/0006.html dtstart and date vs datetime ] 21 Apr 2006
*** refine [[hatom]] so that it's suitable for the workflow around the W3C homepage.

* from WWW2006
** follow up on GRDDL as escape valve for microformats proposals, much like CSS was an escape valve for HTML tag proposals.

* Someday pile
** set up a timezone registry based on wikipedia and semantic mediawiki. As discussed in [[datetime-design-pattern]], iCalendar's by-value timezone passing is broken. see [http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-calendar/2006Apr/0002.html reconsidering timezones in light of hCalendar and CALSIFY] and [http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/91 Toward Semantic Web data from Wikipedia]
** noodle on a playlist format and some of the media RSS stuff like [[media-info-brainstorming]], [[media-metadata-examples]] (re playlists: XSPF, SMIL, RDF, and microformats 9 Sep 2005)
** check out that hReview bug stuff...
** noodle on [[meeting-minutes-brainstorming]] and [http://esw.w3.org/topic/MeetingRecords MeetingRecords in the esw wiki].
** noodle on clipboard scenarios, esp how RDFa works in the general case but isn't as author-friendly as domain-specific syntaxes.

[[User:DanC|DanC]] 15:39, 31 May 2006 (PDT)

== Chris Casciano ==

[[User:ChrisCasciano|ChrisCasciano]]

* get around to updating [[hatom-issues]] with some multi feed rules/exceptions.
* <del>Update textpattern plugin with simple hreview support and get a new release out</del>
* Redesign placenamehere.com and include hatom
* Follow up with technorati folks on pingerati reviews getting lost (note: this will require publishing more reviews and theen watching them through the update process)
* <del>prototype a NetNewsWire microformat extractor (CSS+AppleScript)</del>

== Drew McLellan ==

[[User:DrewMcLellan|DrewMcLellan]]

* Build an hReview profile for [http://allinthehead.com/hkit/ hKit] and test
* Update the [http://www.webstandards.org/action/dwtf/microformats/ Dreamweaver extensions] to mirror recent changes in the online builders
* <del>Publish an hCard to JSON service on [http://tools.microformatic.com/ tools.microformatic.com] using hKit.</del>
* Further develop blog comment form hCard collection ideas.
* Version of hReview creator using hKit to import business details from an hCard

== Christophe Ducamp (french localization) ==

[[Christophe Ducamp]]
* translate exploraty discussions (red links on [[to-do-fr]]
** find experts for peer-reviewing
* localize an french version of the official website
** find out the original versions of pictures (in SVG ?)
** find out french skills resources to adapt the original webdesign

== New Person 2 ==

etc.

Microformats Wiki - User contributions [en]

to-do