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Introduction to Metadata (Research at the Getty)
An online publication devoted to metadata, its types and uses, and how it can improve access to digital resources.
Common Tag
Common Tag is an open tagging format developed to make content more connected, discoverable and engaging. Unlike free-text tags, Common Tags are references to unique, well-defined concepts, complete with metadata and their own URLs. With Common Tag, site
Common Tag
Common Tag is an open tagging format developed to make content more connected, discoverable and engaging. Unlike free-text tags, Common Tags are references to unique, well-defined concepts, complete with metadata and their own URLs. With Common Tag, site
TuneUp - Your Music Collection's New Best Friend
Your music collection is a mess. TuneUp fixes it. Automagically.
Attendee Meta-Data Project
The AMD, or "Attendee Meta-Data", project is an attempt to take an emerging technology called RFID and transparently show how it is capable of being used. In addition, it uses a concept called "interest tags" to allow participants to not only get a better
BoingBoing: Bruce Sterling SIGGRAPH 2004 speech "When Blobjects Rule the Earth"
The next stage is an object that does not exist yet. It needs a noun, so that we can think about it. We can call it a "Spime," which is a neologism for an imaginary object that is still speculative. A Spime also has a kind of person who makes it and uses
A New Interface For Historical Content At WorldHistory
History buffs and students are going to like WorldHistory, a new product from Utah-based Family Link.
The product is still in private beta, but you can get a good sense for what they’ll offer from the demo videos here. Use the map to find a location you
Bibliographic Ontology Specification
The Bibliographic Ontology Specification provides main concepts and properties for describing citations and bibliographic references (i.e. quotes, books, articles, etc) on the Semantic Web.
10 Semantic Apps to Watch
A key element is that the apps below all try to determine the meaning of text and other data, and then create connections for users.
Sitemaps
Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL
dctagging
In my early posts to del.icio.us, I captured this using a "structured tag" approach in which I used a tag of the form "creator_FamilynameFirstname" to capture this information.
A survey of playlist formats
This document is a survey of playlist data formats. It is useful in two ways. One, as a collation of data which is normally scattered all over the web, it is a helpful reference. Two, having this data in one place makes it easier to observe patterns.
Using simple online tools to 'make' a repository
In this post I very briefly provide some tips on using lightweight social bookmarking to (crudely) achieve this, and point to some ongoing issues about repositories and metadata.
Metacrap
A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be a utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities.
On Metacrap at iterating toward openness
I was recently asked what I thought of Cory Doctorow’s classic Metacrap paper. He was, of course, dead on when he wrote it. The nagging question at the time was “what alternatives do we have?” And the sad answer was “not many.”
Gnome Catalog - Catalog software for Gnome Project
Cataloging software for CDs and DVDs. Catalog your dvds/cds and files in your hard disk. Generate thumbnails of the video files and image files via nautilus (gnome file manager), and saves it in the database files. Save the metadata of the files, then you
Searching the BlogSphere
A search box that lets readers search the web, your site, or blogs you read.
StructedBlogging.org » What is Structured Blogging?
Structured blogging is about making a movie review look different from a calendar entry. On the surface, it’s as simple as that - formatting blog entries around their content.
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