On 6/28/07 11:27 AM, "Benjamin West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 6/28/07, Andy Mabbett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tantek Çelik >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> >>> For some of these I see quite a bit of utility (e.g. "gender" is often >>> used in social network searches - an actual application in common use), >>> whereas others seem to be merely driven by sense of semantic publishing >>> completeness (e.g. date of death) and not by existing applications. >> >> On the contrary; you have been presented with evidence *and* use cases >> for date-of-death more than once; not least in the first post in this >> thread. > > > Andy, I'm not sure which evidence you are referring to. All I noticed was a > a sum of google search results. We've previously discussed using search > engine hits as evidence. Can you reiterate which URIs were surveyed along > with an analysis of the markup used? It would go a long way towards providing > evidence for this feature. How are people currently publishing dates of > death? Who is doing it? Are there common authorship patterns? And note I said: "an actual *application* in common use", e.g. people adding contacts from the web into their address book is such an application. As opposed to "semantic publishing completeness", that is, I grant that some people are publishing some date of death information, but other than marking it up, what do you do with the information? What *applications* are there? E.g. for "gender" the widely used application is people search. Thanks, Tantek _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss