review-examples

2008-02-06T23:05:07Z

ThomasDerflinger:

= Review Examples =

There have been several efforts to define data formats for posting "reviews" of products, services etc. on the Web.

This page serves to document the current list of review examples from real world sites for the design of a simple reviews [[microformat]]. -[http://tantek.com/log/ Tantek]

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== Contributors ==

Copied from [[reviews-formats]] which itself was contributed from [http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/ReviewsFormats Technorati Developer's Wiki: ReviewsFormats])

* Tantek Çelik
* Niall Kennedy

== See Also ==
* [[review-formats]]
* [[review-brainstorming]]
* [[hreview|hReview]]
* [[aggregate-review-examples]]

== Examples on the Web ==
Notice that '''author''' appears several times in the list below, and that it sometimes refers to the author of the review, and other times to the author of the book being reviewed. A parenthetical will be used to distinguish them now.

== Centralized Implementations ==
=== Insider Pages ===
Customer reviews of local businesses
* http://www.insiderpages.com

** author ''(review author)''
** rating (0 - 5 stars)
** business name
** review title
** review
** pros
** cons
** business category
** business address
** business phone number
** business e-mail address
** business website

=== Amazon.com ===
* http://www.amazon.com/

** author ''(book author)''
** publication date
** title
** description
** rating (1 to 5 stars)
*** overall and by category
**** declared value and a maximum possible value
* vote for or against component

==== Mini-review ====
Mini reviews are limited to products on some areas of the site.

* rating (1 to 5 stars)
** Their mini-review interface has an 'x,' but this does not mean a rating of '0,' but in their own verbiage 'Unrated.' So the interval is 1 to 5 starts, not 0 to 5 stars. --[[User:RyanKing|RyanKing]] 11:43, 18 Jan 2006 (PST)
* ownership status ([x] I own this)
* negative interest ([x] Not interested)

=== Blogcritics ===
* http://blogcritics.org/

* author ''(review author)''
* title
* publication date
* description
* reviewed work identifier
* reviewed work title
* reviewed work version
** release date
** Volume, issue
** edition
** translation
* reviewed work author(s)
* reviewed work publisher

=== Consumer Reviews ===
* reviewed item
* reviewed item version
* rating
** overall 1-100
** by category 1-5
* definition list of specifications

=== Epinions ===
* http://epinions.com/

* author ''(review author)''
* publication date
* title
* summary ("the bottom line")
* description
* rating overall and by category
* positive summary
* negative summary
* cost
* vote for or against product
* vote for or against review

=== Web site or page reviews ===
* http://en-us.sitereviews.org/
* http://www.stumbleupon.com/

=== Yahoo! Local ===
* http://local.yahoo.com/

* author ''(review author)''
* publication date
* title
* description
* rating
** overall and by category [1-5]
* positive summary
* negative summary

==== Restaurant ====
* usage datetime
* specific use

=== Nearlocal ===
* http://www.nearlocal.com/

=== TripSailor ===
* username
* publication date
* title
* description
* rating (1 to 5 stars)
See [http://www.tripsailor.com/reviews/221-Berthon-Lymington-Marina Example Review of a Marina]

=== SF Survey ===
* http://sfsurvey.com/

=== Zagat ===
* rating by category
* cost
* description

=== delicious 3rd party ===
* http://alf.hubmed.org/rvw.htm

* rating (0-100%)
* tags (keywords, year, user-specified others)
* artist/author ''(work author)''
* title
* URL
* comments
* unique identifier

=== iTunes XML ===
* rating (0-100%)

=== review world ===
* http://www.revieworld.com/

=== Dinner Buzz ===
* http://www.dinnerbuzz.com/

=== TV.com ===
* http://www.tv.com

* rating (0-10 in increments of 0.1)
* classification
* summary
* full review
* agree or disagree

=== IMDB ===
* http://www.imdb.com

* voting
** rating (1-10)

* user comments
** User Name
** User Location
** Contains spoiler? (checkbox)
** Summary
** Vote (1-10)
** Comment text

=== Yelp ===
* http://www.yelp.com/

== Analysis of Examples ==

=== Common review fields ===
* item being reviewed (name/title|URL(s)|image)
* reviewer (name|email|URL)
* review publication/authoring date
* rating 1 to 5 (default max = 5, default min = 1)
* tags (keyword,rating)*
* comments

== See Also ==
* [[review-formats]]
* [[review-brainstorming]]
* [[hreview|hReview]]

See [[hreview|hReview]] for the result and evolution of these thoughts on a microformat.

geo-examples-in-wild

2008-02-06T22:53:30Z

ThomasDerflinger:

==Geo Examples In The Wild==

This section is '''informative'''.

The following sites have published [[geo|Geo]] microformats, outside their normal context of [[hcard|hCards]] or [[hcalendar|hCalendars]], and thus are a great place to start for anyone looking for examples "in the wild" to try parsing, indexing, organizing etc., in addition to the in many [[hcard-examples-in-wild|hCard examples in the wild]] and [[hcalendar-examples-in-wild|hCalendar examples in the wild]]. If you find Geos outside of hCards / hCalendars anywhere else, feel free to add them to the '''top''' of this list.

Pages with live Geo can use this button (see [[buttons#Geo]] for any recent additions): http://rbach.priv.at/2006/buttons/geo.png

* [http://www.tripsailor.com TripSailor.com] sailing community site features Geo for worldwide marina guide and hReview for reviews. See [http://www.tripsailor.com/pois/6333915-lymington-marina Lymington Marina with reviews]
* [http://www.sharemyroutes.com ShareMyRoutes.com] uses geo microformat descriptions of waypoints and photos, and has geo formatted download of route information, e.g.[http://www.sharemyroutes.com/routes/United-Kingdom/Near-Pickering-North-Yorkshire/Dalby-Forest-Red-Route/download.aspx?strformat=geo&straction=download Dalby Forest Red Route]

* [http://tilaphos.blogspot.com tilaphos blog] uses geo microformats for pointing to burnt areas recorded with a GPS and shown on a Google map. In Greek language. Other pages using geo microformats: [http://tilaphos.googlepages.com/areas.html map] and [http://tilaphos.googlepages.com/fullareas.html full page map]
* [http://www.mapmytracks.com Map My Tracks] uses Geo microformats for the starting points of individual tracks created by mobile phone GPS tracking. See: [http://www.mapmytracks.com/explore/track/112 Elsenham Golf course]
* [http://www.warmoth.com/gallery/gallery.cfm Warmoth Guitar Products Customer Gallery] features Geo microformats on the individual guitar detail pages. Example: [http://www.warmoth.com/gallery/gallery.cfm?fuseaction=include_container&id=193 Patrick Abbot's Guitar]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/bangladeshboat BBC World Service Bangladesh River Journey] a social network mashup, uses Geo with hAtom entries. See [http://dharmafly.com/blog/bangladeshboat Dharmafly blog discussion].
* [http://www.gpsies.com/ GPSies.com] uses Geo markup to show start and endpoint of a track.
* Christian Hess uses Geo to indicate where pictures in his photo gallery where taken, such as [http://www.hess-cr.com/secciones/galeria/playahermosa.shtml here] and [http://www.hess-cr.com/secciones/galeria/playascr.shtml here].
* [http://www.txioka.net/ekitaldiak.php Txioka] has support for Geo and [[hcalendar|hCalendar]] microformats, parses twitter messages with [[twitter-nanoformats|twitter nanoformats]] and converts to geo and hcalendar.
* [http://www.navitraveler.com/places/629/ NaviTraveler], e. g. [http://www.navitraveler.com/places/629/Lincoln_Memorial.html Lincoln Memorial].
** Response in under 12 hours, to advocacy request - [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]]
*[http://caving.atspace.com/ Caving in the Settle Area] uses Geo to mark up the U.K. NGR for cave locations.
*[http://gc.kls2.com/ Great Circle Mapper] ("GCM"; e.g. [http://tinyurl.com/yugscj sample GCM trip], [http://gc.kls2.com/airport/BHX BHX on GCM])
* [http://www.creation.uk.com Creation design & marketing] has Geo microformat on the [http://www.creation.uk.com/contact/ contact information].
* <s>Wikipedia now has a template, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Hcard-geo hcard-geo], for in-line hCards with coordinates, using Geo, such as that on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_Arm Engine Arm]</s>
*[http://www.logon.ie/contact-us/ LogOn.ie] have added Geo (and hCard) to their contact page.
*[http://www.davidosbornephotography.co.uk/gallery2/main.php www.davidosbornephotography.co.uk] has implemented Geo on all location photography pages; eg. [http://www.davidosbornephotography.co.uk/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=1747 Callanish Stones]
*Wikipedia-IT now has Geo on all [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciale:PuntanoQui/Template:Coord pages using the ''coord'' template], e.g. [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messina Messina]. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 07:05, 26 May 2007 (PDT)
*'Area' pages on Wholemap, summarizing the photos, videos, etc... for a specific area, now have Geo codes - [http://wholemap.com/map/area.php?area=NiagaraFalls Niagara Falls, for example] May 10, 2007
*The Italian Wikipedia, for example [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genova Genova (Genoa)]
*Geo has been added to all of [http://socialight.com Socialight]'s Sticky Notes - here's an example: [http://socialight.com/note/2007/4/14/11Aqk_a-great-way-to-spend-a-few-hours]
*The [http://www.bayofislands.net/ Bay of Islands] site has Geo on its main page, and all photo pages. Example: [http://www.bayofislands.net/photos/8/ photo of Edgewater Apartments]
*I've added geo to [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Location_dec_US all images tagged in Wikimedia Commons] using decimal values. Example: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Montreal_City_Hall_Jan_2006.jpg Montreal City Hall, Jan 2006] [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 08:54, 12 Apr 2007 (PDT)
**Now on pages tagged in D-M-S also.
*Spotstor.com - e.g. [http://spotstor.com] uses Geo for all coordinates displayed on the site.
*Panoramio - e.g. [http://www.panoramio.com/photo/564690]
* Wikipedia-NL now has Geo on all its map-links pages, e.g. [http://www.nsesoftware.nl/wiki/maps.asp?params=52_28_47_N_1_53_51_W_type:city_region:GB&src=Birmingham_%28Engeland%29 maps for Wikipedia-NL article on Birmingham]
**Called from '''87,724''' article pages as of 2006-04-09; reportedly the sixth most popular website in the Netherlands [http://www.multiscope.nl/organisatie/nieuws/sberichten/nederlandse-wikipedia-groeit-als-kool.html].
* I recently added Geo to Wikipedia-DE's map link pages e.g. [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?language=de&params=52_28_47_N_1_53_51_W_type:city_region:GB maps for Wikipedia-DE article on Birmingham]. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 14:27, 9 Apr 2007 (PDT)
* I've just added Geo to OpenStreetMap documentation pages - see [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Birmingham Birmingham page on OpenStreetMap] for example. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 02:39, 6 Apr 2007 (PDT)
* I've [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AGeoTemplate&diff=119003866&oldid=118216477 just added] Geo to Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:GeoTemplate GeoTemplate] which is called by '''many thousands''' of other Wikipedia pages. Example: the coordinates (top right) in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barr] link to [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/geo/geohack.php?params=52.54833_N_1.93212_W_region:GB_source:enwiki-osgb36(SP047945)]; the latter now has a Geo microformat. [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 03:38, 30 Mar 2007 (PDT)
** [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~kolossos/wp-world/imageworld-art.php Map showing global distribution of Geo-tagged Wikipedia articles].
* [http://www.jillesvangurp.com/places jillesvangurp.com] provides an xsl stylesheet to transform Google Earth place-marks (KMZ files) into html with nested lists of Geo formatted places. Several examples are provided.
*[http://www.geograph.org.uk Geograph British Isles] has experimental support for geos on '''350,000+''' photo pages, for example http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1234
*[http://www.poi66.com/ POI66] has '''over 58,500''' waypoints Geo-formatted, many describing [[geo-waypoint-examples|trails]] e.g [http://www.poi66.com/maps/show_album.php?album=santiago Mijn pelgrimstocht naar Santiago]
* [http://3amproductions.net 3AM Productions] has published coordinates of cities both in and outside the context of hCards under [http://3amproductions.net/jason.php Jason's] and [http://3amproductions.net/gilbert.php Gil's] pages.
*Wikitravel now has the facility to add co-ordinates for the subject of the article, and publishes them as a Geo microformat - e.g. [http://wikitravel.org/en/Birmingham_%28England%29 Wikitravel - Birmingham]; see [http://wikitravel.org/shared/Tech:Add_SpecialMap_using_Mapstraction_link_for_geo-tagged_pages_and_for_single_listings The announcement].
* [http://flickr.com/ Flickr] now [http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2006/08/great_shot_wher.html supports the geo microformat] on all [http://flickr.com/map/ geotagged photos]. Within 11 days of launch there are now over '''3,000,000+''' photos (as of 2006-09-07) marked up with the "geo" microformat.
* [http://ocono.com/ ocono.com] has marked each of it's "Upcoming Events" items with latitude/longitude values.
* [http://harry.hchen1.com/mylife.htm Harry Chen has marked up his geo location]
* [http://www.multimap.com Multimap.com] uses Geo to mark up latitude and longitude values on map pages.
* [http://rasterweb.net/raster/ Pete Prodoehl] geotags posts on his blog.
* [http://07.pagesd.info/ 07.pagesd.info] uses Geo to mark up latitude and longitude values for each commune of the Ardèche département in France.
* [http://www.openguides.org/ OpenGuides] has support for Geo in svn, and for now you can see it in action on the [http://cotswolds.openguides.org/ Cotswolds OpenGuide]



===Examples with some problems===

Entries may be moved here if there's a problem with the way Geo is used on the page concerned. If the page is yours, and you want to improve it, see the [[hcard-faq|hCard & Geo FAQ]], or raise any queries on [[hcard-issues|hCard & Geo Issues]] or [[mailing-lists#microformats-discuss|the mailing list]], where people will be happy to help you.

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Templates_generating_Geo Wikipedia-EN templates_generating_Geo]
**'''hidden''' - for example [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Minnesota_State_Parks List of Minnesota state parks]
*[http://barcamp.org/BarCampBlock Bar Camp Block]
**Geo uses integer values; displayed text also has minutes and seconds
* [http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/events/ Dan Connoly's Index of Events] has a few Geos
** Two of the Geos are invalid because they use commas instead of semicolons

== Related Pages ==
{{geo-related-pages}}

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