Well! what can I say, I'm honored to announce the birth of a new microformat that has managed to reach the status of Proposal, hAudio.
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- hAudio and Operator
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There Is now an Operator User Script created by David Lehn called hAudio.js which will help you to detect all the hAudio items available on WebOrganics.
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- hAudio RDFa
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hAudio has been creating quite a bit of exitement around the semantic web recently in particular the hAudio RDFa maping performed by David Lehn and Manu Sporny of Digital Bazaar, Inc.
The Creative Commons Tech Blog describes the proposal in its entry about Metadata work of interest as
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- Audio Microformat hAudio 0.8
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This Halloween as well as that awful film Halloween being on the BBC again they also promised Halloween II next week... dont worry I have plenty more repeats to chose from thanks to the miracle of satelite tv, something else not so scary happened the audio microformat hAudio reached version 0.8. The general consensus on the list is that hAudio 0.8 will be the final proposal, after a last round of talks, before hAudio gets moved on to Draft. hAudio will then become only the twelfth in a list of many exploratory discussions, to make it to Microformat Draft.
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- hAudio Draft Specification
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It was announced on Saturday 3rd of November by hAudio editor Manu Sporny, that on hAudio 0.8 has become a Draft Specification
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- hAudio-RSS - Public Domain
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hAudio-RSS has been updated to version 2, the code has been modified and does not contain any suspected anti-patterns (info being scraped from the head not visible). The biggest change is that hAudio-RSS is now licensed under a Creative Commons Public Domain License. This is because microformats.org have recently required all contributions on the microformats wiki have a public domain license, which personally I find is a smart move, Anybody can freely use microformats anywhere for anything and not have to worry about possible licensing or copyright infringements. hAudio-RSS is an extension of hAudio so I feel it should have the same license. There is also a free Template that you can download of the whole hAudio-RSS v2 markup also released into the Public domain which includes, XHTML 1.0 Strict document, CSS, Bookmarklet, Buttons and guidelines. Download hRSS-template.
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- Talk about hAudio RSS
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hAudio-RSS is causing a little flutter in the open media web community so much so that back in December it became part of a small discussion over at songbird nest called Portable Playlists and other POSH-ibilities presented (amongst others) by Tantek which was kindly recorded to video by Citizen Tara Hunt, so without any further rambling may I present Tantek's Demo.
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- hAudio 0.9
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hAudio has reached a stately version 9.0 which I imagine will be the final proposal from the contributors of the hAudio Microformat.
Only one class name was changed, "fn" for "title" which doesnt seem so great but has been a hotly debated part of hAudio since May 2007 when the issue about "title is already taken to mean something else" and "use fn instead" first came up. The Class Name "title" may yet change again because the fn/title issue is still being debated and I imagine will continue for some time yet.
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- Bootstrapping hAudio
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The hAudio Microformat can now be transformed to five different flavours, RSS1, RSS2, XSPF, Music Ontology and RDFa by Manu Sporny.
The Newest Format is Mo hAudio which is an attempt at extracting a basic Music Ontology
