Hi all, I have replaced the stub page for hReview-aggregate with a draft spec describing the microformat that was decided on early this year. hReview-aggregate is meant to complement hReview -- using hReview-aggregate, summary information about a collection of user reviews can be marked up such as the average rating and the number of reviews available about an item. The wiki page is here: http://microformats.org/wiki/hreview-aggregate
I have also updated the brainstorming page with a proposal to address one of the issues raised -- that users can leave a rating without writing a review. The current hreview-aggregate draft has a single property called "count" that is used to specify the number of reviews for a particular product or service. However, many sites have some number of votes (where users specify a numerical rating or a thumbs up/thumbs down vote) contributing to an average rating and a smaller number of full user reviews. The brainstorming page is here: http://microformats.org/wiki/aggregate-review-brainstorming The brainstorming page contains a section (called "Reviews vs ratings") describing a suggested proposal as well as one possible alternative. The suggested proposal is to add a new property called "votes" to allow websites to specify a number of user votes separately from the number of reviews (using the existing property "count"). Happy to hear feedback on this and update the draft accordingly. Kavi _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
