exploratory-discussions
Exploratory Discussions
Per the microformats process: research and analysis of real-world examples, existing formats, and brainstorming to motivate the microformat. Please check rejected-formats before making additions.
Active
The following exploratory discussions are being actively pursued (generally, edited in the last month, or with an active community member (named in parentheses) having expressed an interest in pursuing them)
- audio-info (examples, formats, brainstorming, proposal, issues) - Marking up information and metadata related to audio (speech, music, and sound in general).
- music music examples
- audio-album (see audio-info pages for examples, formats, brainstorming. audio-album-proposal, audio-album-issues) - Marking up information and metadata related to audio albums/collections.
- geo extensions (Andy Mabbett)
- geo-elevation-examples, geo-elevation-formats - extend geo for representing altitude
- geo-waypoint-examples, geo-waypoint-formats - extend geo for representing routes and boundaries, using waypoints
- geo-extension-examples, geo-extension-formats, geo-extension-brainstorming, geo-extension-strawman - extend geo for moons, other planets, etc.
- receipt (examples, formats, brainstorming, proposal) - Marking up information and metadata related to purchase receipts.
- species - for the marking up of the scientific names of living things: species-examples, species-formats, species-brainstorming (Andy Mabbett)
Current
The following exploratory discussions are less actively pursued, but may still be developed.
- citation citation effort, citation examples, citation formats, citation brainstorming, and citation FAQ (Andy Mabbett)
- currency; currency-examples; currency-formats; currency-brainstorming; currency-proposal; currency-issues (Andy Mabbett)
- listing / hListing hListing proposal, and hListing feedback
- based on listing examples, formats, and brainstorming
- measures and measurement units measure, measure-examples, measure-formats Andy Mabbett
- recipe recipe examples, recipe-formats, recipe-brainstorming
Moribund
The following exploratory discussions are believed moribund, or superseded; or are simply not being maintained due to the absence of the interested party or shortage of volunteer effort. Work may well resume in the future. Please feel free to move them to one of the above sections if you are interested in developing them, and append your name in parentheses, or move them to "Abandoned" or "Archived", if that is more appropriate. At the time of writing, 26 August 2007, it is expected that many of these will be moved, shortly, to one of the above sections.
- alternates alternates brainstorming, alternates examples
- attention
- blog description blog description examples
- blog info blog info examples
- book book examples, book formats, and book brainstorming
- chat chat examples, chat formats, and chat brainstorming
- code code examples, code-formats, code brainstorming
- comment comment problem, comment examples, and comment formats (Some stuff needs to be extracted from comments-formats)
- collection description - for describing collections in libraries
- course-catalog; course-catalog-examples
- depend-examples: examples of dependency graphs, especially as they relate to software
- digital-signatures: incorporation of digital signatures in Microformatted data; (digital-signature examples, digitalsignature-formats, digital-signatures brainstorming)
- directions directions examples
- directory inclusion directory inclusion examples, directory inclusion formats. (yielded the rel-directory microformat)
- distributed conversation distributed conversation overview, distributed conversation examples, distributed conversation formats, distributed conversation brainstorming
- downloads downloads examples, downloads formats, downloads brainstorming
- error messages error message examples, error-message-formats, error message brainstorming
- figures figure examples, figure-formats, figure brainstorming
- file-format (examples, formats, brainstorming) - for the mark-up of file format information (size, type, codecs, bitrate, etc.) - should this be merged with downloads ?
- forms forms examples
- genealogy genealogy-examples, genealogy formats
- group group examples, group-formats, group brainstorming
- grouping (examples, formats, brainstorming, proposal) - Metadata markup of items that should be grouped together.
- hash hash examples (see also downloads)
- items items examples, items-formats, items brainstorming
- job listing job listing examples, job-listing-formats, job listing brainstorming
- last modified last modified examples, last modified formats, and last modified brainstorming
- media-info (media-info examples, media-info formats, media-info brainstorming) {
- meeting minutes meeting minutes examples, meeting minutes formats, and meeting minutes brainstorming
- metalink metalink examples
- MFO examples
- news news examples
- OFF
- operating-hours: operating-hours-examples ..of stores, restaurants, etc. {
- page-summary page-summary-examples, page-summary-formats
- payment
- photo note photo note examples
- product - product-examples, product-formats, product-brainstorming. The following needs to be cleaned up as part of product: rel-product rel-product brainstorming
- question-answer, question-answer-examples, question-answer-formats, question-answer-brainstorming
- realestate-propertydetail, realestate-propertydetail-examples, realestate-propertydetail-formats, realestate-propertydetail brainstorming
- requirements testing requirements testing overview, and requirements testing examples
- REST examples (see also rest)
- search results search results example
- show show-examples, show-formats, show brainstorming (see also media-info)
- showroll showroll-examples, showroll-formats, showroll-brainstorming
- table examples
- tagspeak tagspeak examples
- tagcloud tagcloud examples, tagcloud-formats, and tagcloud brainstorming.
- to-do-examples, to-do-formats, to-do-brainstorming, to perhaps yield hToDo
- transit table transit table examples
- uid
- widget, widget examples, widget-formats, widget brainstorming
- wiki formats
- work of art work of art overview, work of art examples, work of art formats, and work of art brainstorming
- XMDP brainstorming (see also xmdp-faq)
Abandoned
The following exploratory discussions are confirmed as abandoned:
- ...
Archive
The following exploratory discussions resulted in a microformat, or have been superseded by later developments, but are kept here for historical interest:
- blog post examples, blog post formats, and blog post brainstorming (yielded the hAtom draft)
- location location-examples, location formats. (see also adr, geo, hCard)
- resume resume-examples, resume formats, resume brainstorming yielded the hResume draft.
- review review examples, and review formats yielded the hReview draft