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= Review Brainstorming =<br />
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There have been several efforts to define data formats for posting "reviews" of products, services etc. on the Web.<br />
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This page serves to document the brainstorming and ideas resulting from analysis of review examples from real world sites for the design of a simple reviews [[microformat]]. -[http://tantek.com/log/ Tantek] <br />
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== Contributors ==<br />
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Copied from [[reviews-formats]] which itself was contributed from [http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/ReviewsFormats Technorati Developer's Wiki: ReviewsFormats])<br />
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* Tantek Ãelik<br />
* Niall Kennedy<br />
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== See Also ==<br />
* [[review-examples]]<br />
* [[review-formats]]<br />
* [[hreview|hReview]]<br />
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== Thoughts on a Microformat for a review ==<br />
Thoughts towards a simple [[microformat]] subset of earlier efforts, sufficient to express 80/20 of real world review examples on the Web.<br />
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=== Common review fields ===<br />
* item<br />
** optional:type of item (business, Web page/site, product, event, person, place, file, text)<br />
** name/title of item being reviewed (string | ["hCard"] if business or person)<br />
*** optional:URL (all additional information should be somewhere else, not in the review itself)<br />
*** optional:image (URL)<br />
* reviewer (["hCard"]|name|email|URL)<br />
* review publication/authoring date (ISO8601 datetime)<br />
* rating 1 to 5 (default max = 5, default min = 1)<br />
* optional:tags (keyword,rating)*<br />
* optional:comments (string)<br />
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See [[hreview|hReview]] for the result and evolution of these thoughts on a microformat.<br />
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See [[hreview-brainstorming|hReview brainstorming]] for iteration and brainstorming on hReview itself.</div>ErchiDelta