open question format

[tyler gillies]

is there an open standards question format? for example heres my idea

<question value="what genus are peanuts in?">

and have this url be like host.com/peanuts

then anyone on the web can be like

<answer rel="http://hosts.com/peanuts" value="arachis">

just an idea i had, anyone know of anything like that out there?

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[Chris Messina]

Off the top of my head, I don't know of one (but surely there must be one, if not several).

What problem are you trying to solve? Distributing Q & A systems?

Also, to start, I might look into the Atom Threading Extension (thr-in-reply-to).

Chris

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[Steven Livingstone-Perez]

You might want to look into how http://vark.com/ serialize their questions – seems to support a number of IM clients and so on, so suspect they have a standard protocol to do this.

 

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[Karl Dubost]

Le 20 janv. 2010 à 04:11, tyler gillies a écrit :
> is there an open standards question format? for example heres my idea

I would check first programs processing/parsing FAQs
and analyze what kind of format they emit or parse.

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[Melvin Carvalho]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:11 AM, tyler gillies <tjgi...@gmail.com> wrote:

is there an open standards question format? for example heres my idea

<question value="what genus are peanuts in?">

and have this url be like host.com/peanuts

then anyone on the web can be like

<answer rel="http://hosts.com/peanuts" value="arachis">

For a simple question like this you can use SPARQL (W3C Recommendation)

select ?x where { 
    <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Peanut> <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Species/genus> ?x 
}

http://bit.ly/5aC5Cw

you can use RDFa for your markup too, so

rel="dbpedia:Arachis" works with an xmlns

Other questions may be more tricky ...

Hope that helps!
 

just an idea i had, anyone know of anything like that out there?

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[Ben Ward]

On 20 Jan 2010, at 01:11, tyler gillies wrote:

> is there an open standards question format? for example heres my idea

There's no specific stable format that I'm aware of, but there's early-stage, existing work on the microformats wiki that documents some examples. If you take on the work to define a spec, this work could provide something of a starting point: http://microformats.org/wiki/question-answer

Ben

[John Britton]

Yes there is a standard question format, it's called QTI. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QTI).

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