h-cite

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h-cite is the microformats2 vocabulary for marking up citations and references on web sites.

IndieWeb Uses

There are several IndieWeb uses of h-cite:

photo - information on an embedded photo. For example, if it has a different author than the post.
reply-context - summary display of the original post that a reply/comment is in-reply-to.
comments - comments shown below a post that have been federated/syndicated in from their original reply permalink.
like - context about the thing you liked, similar to a reply-context.
repost - context about the thing you reposted, like what resonated with you and you wished to draw the reader's attention to through the repost.
appearances — markup books, papers, films that listed in your appearances

Notes on markup and usability

blockquote and cite tags - when quoting other blog posts, it's good to provide a fully marked up citation using h-cite and the blockquote and cite HTML tags.
Citation user interface - it is suggested to provide an explicit <cite class="h-cite"> markup in an input text box at the bottom of blog posts. This allows others to easily copy and paste your content into their follow-up blog posts or responses.
- Tantek provides such input boxes with citation markup to copy/paste in the footer of every article he publishes, e.g. [1]

FAQ

Q: When making a mentions stream, should I use h-cite around each entry?

A: If you are displaying the entire entry, then it does not need an h-cite. If you are citing a summary of the entry — e.g. name, URL, and dt-published — then an h-cite is appropriate.

Chat log

IndieWeb Examples

Christian Weiske

Christian Weiske uses h-cite to mark up books he has in his library - http://cweiske.de/books.htm

gRegor Morrill

gRegor Morrill: I've published h-cite on:

read posts at https://gregorlove.com/channels/reading
reply-contexts in reply posts, for example: https://gregorlove.com/2020/06/this-is-fantastic/
incoming responses feed at https://gregorlove.com/responses/

Sara Jakša

Using it in the list of read books to indicate the specific book. Since they are not separate posts, this seemed like the most appropriate h-type at the time.
Using it in the list of watched media and performances, at this point just for the list of watched movies.