Broadcast microformat under development

cnewell · 6th November 2007, 14:11

This is just a heads-up to point out that a microformat for Internet radio and TV has recently started at: microformats.org

Microformats are a way of adding markup to human-readable data on web pages so that information can be extracted easily by software - a broadcast microformat would allow media players, Internet radios and search engines to extract detailed information about radio and TV stations from web pages.

The microformats development process starts with the capture of examples to discover how people are currently providing information on the web. If you publish webpages which feature Internet radio and TV stations it would be really help if you could list these at: microformats.org/wiki/broadcast-examples

Cheers,

Chris Newell

k_rock923 · 6th November 2007, 15:54

Uh, this looks like XML when someone takes the time to properly think out the DTD.

zootm · 6th November 2007, 16:28

Microformats are a bit different to XML, but they do kinda encapsulate a lot of the things that namespaced XML is supposed to in XHTML. This looks interesting, especially with Mozilla and Microsoft, among others, looking to include inbuilt support in upcoming products.

k_rock923 · 6th November 2007, 16:35

So, how is it different from well written XML?

zootm · 6th November 2007, 20:08

I'm not certain of what to tell you if you've read the linked page and still don't understand? It adds implicit metadata to the existing HTML and XHTML namespaces, rather than having to have an additional namespace that is unsupported on most browsers at present and essentially incompatible with plain HTML.

Wikipedia link with some examples. It's essentially unobtrusive extra semantic content in pages, without resorting to embedding a whole bunch of XML.

6th November 2007, 14:11	#1
cnewell Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3	Broadcast microformat under development This is just a heads-up to point out that a microformat for Internet radio and TV has recently started at: microformats.org Microformats are a way of adding markup to human-readable data on web pages so that information can be extracted easily by software - a broadcast microformat would allow media players, Internet radios and search engines to extract detailed information about radio and TV stations from web pages. The microformats development process starts with the capture of examples to discover how people are currently providing information on the web. If you publish webpages which feature Internet radio and TV stations it would be really help if you could list these at: microformats.org/wiki/broadcast-examples Cheers, Chris Newell

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k_rock923 \m/ (Forum King) Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: /bin/bash Posts: 7,786	Uh, this looks like XML when someone takes the time to properly think out the DTD. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

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k_rock923 \m/ (Forum King) Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: /bin/bash Posts: 7,786	So, how is it different from well written XML? Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

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6th November 2007, 16:28	#3
zootm Forum King Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: the nether reaches of bonnie scotland Posts: 13,378	Microformats are a bit different to XML, but they do kinda encapsulate a lot of the things that namespaced XML is supposed to in XHTML. This looks interesting, especially with Mozilla and Microsoft, among others, looking to include inbuilt support in upcoming products.

6th November 2007, 20:08	#5
zootm Forum King Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: the nether reaches of bonnie scotland Posts: 13,378	I'm not certain of what to tell you if you've read the linked page and still don't understand? It adds implicit metadata to the existing HTML and XHTML namespaces, rather than having to have an additional namespace that is unsupported on most browsers at present and essentially incompatible with plain HTML. Wikipedia link with some examples. It's essentially unobtrusive extra semantic content in pages, without resorting to embedding a whole bunch of XML.