Hi Ryan, Just a quick reply... take a look at rel=directory (http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-directory). That might get you started. Note that Technorati's Blog Finder (http://technorati.com/blogs/) works around this concept.
Chris On 11/29/05, Ryan Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My name is Ryan Cannon and I am a master's student at U of M studying > human-computer interaction, semantic web design, and basically > looking for ways to contribute to the field. I read about > Microformats in the Digitial Web Magazine Primer and more recently > in Boss & Lie's article in A List Apart. I think the idea of µf is an > incredible one—essentially codifying best practices for common > applications. I believe this will go a long way to abstracting > semantic XHTML development once the dev. tools support it well. > > Anyway, I've rooted around in the archives, but perhaps I've missed > something. Some in my field have uncovered that the way people > attempt to search the internet is much different than what the > technology allows. For instance, people want to search for categories > of web sites, e.g. news sites, personal sites, informational sites, > or stores. This does not convert well with the Title/Description/ > Keyword and tags method currently in place. What we're missing, to > use the library analog, is a "subject" field. > > If it's already taking place, I'd like to join in the discussion > about embedding self-reported genre or subject metadata in web pages. > What this would allow, once properly implemented, is the ability for > search engines to do something along the following: > > Search for words: "Disney" > In websites about: "Tourism" > and not about: "Stores OR Merchandise" > > Being new to this discussion, I'm not aware of the larger issues > around an idea like this, but a large one comes to mind: there's no > engine in place to take advantage of it. But that didn't stop XFN. > > Please send me your comments. I've begun to read some of the wiki > about proposing formats, but I'm nowhere near that stage. I'm more > interested in if this discussion is taking place, and the things to > keep in mind when talking about invisible metadata and search engines. > > Cheers, > -- > Ryan Cannon > > Interactive Developer > MSI Student, School of Information > University of Michigan > http://RyanCannon.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > microformats-discuss@microformats.org > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss >
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