Re: hCode microformat proposal

On 1/25/2007, Anders said:
>I've added a page to the wiki to catalog examples of
source code being
>published online and the ways they do that.
>
>http://mic
roformats.org/wiki/code-examples
>
>I suppose I'll be filling that in over the next couple
of days.
>
>~ Anders
>

snip

>> > > All over the web there are code snippets
and code examples, and
>just
>> > > plain people showing of little programs
they've written.  This
>data is
>> > > typical acompanied by an author or list
of authors, a lisence,
>the
>> > > language type and version and various
other bits of meta data. 
>This
>> > > seems to me to be an excelent place for
microformats.


At first blush it looks like this would fit in and existing
proposal, something like hReview. It seems to have enough
fields to cover it  (though this might abuse the intent of
hReview; i.e. we aren't reviewing a piece of code, but
distributing it). 

You may also want to take a look at the hProduct discussion
(http:/
/microformats.org/wiki/hproduct-proposal).

As is evidenced by your blog post and the wiki page, it
looks like about the only thing not covered by an existing
microformat is the code itself, but I think that it could
work in hProduct's description field.

~Tim






 
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On 1/25/07, Tim White <tjameswhiteyahoo.com> wrote:
> On 1/25/2007, Anders said:
> >I've added a page to the wiki to catalog examples
of source code being
> >published online and the ways they do that.
> >
> >http://mic
roformats.org/wiki/code-examples
> >
> >I suppose I'll be filling that in over the next
couple of days.
> >
> >~ Anders
> >
>
> snip
>
> >> > > All over the web there are code
snippets and code examples, and
> >just
> >> > > plain people showing of little
programs they've written.  This
> >data is
> >> > > typical acompanied by an author or
list of authors, a lisence,
> >the
> >> > > language type and version and
various other bits of meta data.
> >This
> >> > > seems to me to be an excelent place
for microformats.
>
>
> At first blush it looks like this would fit in and
existing proposal, something like hReview. It seems to have
enough fields to cover it  (though this might abuse the
intent of hReview; i.e. we aren't reviewing a piece of code,
but distributing it).
>
> You may also want to take a look at the hProduct
discussion (http:/
/microformats.org/wiki/hproduct-proposal).
>
> As is evidenced by your blog post and the wiki page, it
looks like about the only thing not covered by an existing
microformat is the code itself, but I think that it could
work in hProduct's description field.
>
> ~Tim

I agree what I'm proposing is more of a
"macro-format" or a
conglomerate of several microformats.  I think the biggest
thing that
distinguishes it from something like hproduct or hreview
(and maybe it
could be squeezed in there with a little bit of work, but
hear me out)
is in two cases.

First is in consumption, with hproduct and hreview we have
by and
large a single class of consumption, reviews, products etc. 
Tools
used to scrape for those will be wildy different than the
tools needed
to scrape for code samples.

Second is the inclusion of licensing and language options
which seem
wildly out of place in either of those formats but I think
are very
important to the webs use of code samples.

I'm no micorformat expert so I really don't know what is
possible with
subclassing or mushing, but those are two reasons that stand
out in my
head simply squeezing a code sample into one of those
microformats
might be a bad idea.

~ Anders
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