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Tag: meta data

Replied to a tweet (Twitter)

I'm starting to get triggered by "experts" who organize their bookshelf by color. What kind of expert doesn't use Melvil Dewey's system?pic.twitter.com/19aRkmCAqo

— Joseph Dickson (@joe4ska) February 26, 2021
I’m not a fan of color for categorizing books either, but Dewey’s classification is underpinned by incredibly racist ideas. Perhaps look at any one of the many others?
Format StatusPosted on February 25, 2021 9:49 pmFebruary 27, 2021Author Chris AldrichCategories Like, Reply, Social StreamTags critical cataloguing, Library of Congress, Melvil Dewey, meta data, misogyny, racist ideasSyndicated copies:
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Read Dublin Core Application Profiles — A Brief Dialogue by Tantek ÇelikTantek Çelik (tantek.com)
IndieWebCamp Cambridge 2015 is over. Having finished their ice cream and sorbet while sitting on a couch at Toscanini’s watching it snow, the topics of sameAs, reuse, and general semantics leads to a mention of Dublin Core Application Profiles. A: Dublin Core Application Profiles could be useful f...
Format LinkPosted on November 4, 2020 10:51 amNovember 18, 2020Author Chris AldrichCategories Read, Social StreamTags Dublin Core, meta dataSyndicated copies:
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Read Google confirms Microformats are still a recommended metadata format for content by Jamie TannaJamie Tanna (Jamie Tanna)
Noting Google's continued support for Microformats as a metadata format.
Format LinkPosted on March 3, 2020 8:03 amAuthor Chris AldrichCategories Read, Social Stream, TechnologyTags Google, IndieWeb, meta data, microformatsLeave a comment on
Read Always. Own. Your platform. (alwaysownyourplatform.com)

Stop giving away your work to people who don't care about it. Host it yourself. Distribute it via methods you control. Build your audience deliberately and on your own terms.

Be in charge of the relationship with your audience.

Deliver value and then ask for money. Avoid unnecessary middlemen.

I’ll admit that I love the meta data cards that Twitter, Facebook, et al. will display for this website will look roughly like this:

Stock photo of a punk 9 year old holding up his arms to make an X with text below from the meta data fields that reads I refuse to display meta data for other platforms. Nope. Not doing it. Always own your platform.

Reminds me a bit of Kevin Marks’ experiment Decaying Silos as Dead Malls, though I’ll have to see if this site went to the extremes that Kevin did.

Makes me think I should do something similar when I syndicate my content to social silos? Hmmm….

Format LinkPosted on February 19, 2020 12:17 amFebruary 19, 2020Author Chris AldrichCategories IndieWeb, Read, Social StreamTags meta data, microformats, open graph protocol, own your data, social siloSyndicated copies:
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Dear Goodreads, heading into the stretch for the end of 2019, it would be great if there were a potential column for %finished in the master view for My Books >> Currently Reading (example URL).

This would let me sort the 30+ books in my currently reading list and figure out which ones I’m furthest through and could potentially finish quickest on my sprint for cleaning out my list for the end of the year.

You’ve got almost every other bit of sortable data in those lists, why not this one? I’ll take a simple numerical  view, but if you want to throw in the progress bar, there’s lots of bonus points in your developer Christmas stocking. 

Format StatusPosted on December 21, 2019 2:30 pmDecember 21, 2019Author Chris AldrichCategories Social StreamTags GoodReads, meta data, UI, UXSyndicated copies:
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Bookmarked FOAF-a-matic -- Describe yourself in RDF (ldodds.com)
FOAF-a-matic is a simple Javascript application that allows you to create a FOAF ("Friend-of-A-Friend") description of yourself. You can read more about FOAF in Edd Dumbill's "XML Watch: Finding friends with XML and RDF" article, at the FOAF homepage on RDFWeb, and also the FOAF vocabulary description. In short though, FOAF is a way to describe yourself -- your name, email address, and the people you're friends with -- using XML and RDF. This allows software to process these descriptions, perhaps as part of an automated search engine, to discover information about your and the communities of which you're a member. FOAF has the potential to drive many new interesting developments in online communities. Ben Hammersely's "Click to the Clique" article for the Guardian Unlimited website further explores these ideas.
Format LinkPosted on November 21, 2019 10:20 amNovember 21, 2019Author Chris AldrichCategories Bookmark, Social StreamTags FOAF, following, IndieWeb, meta data, RDFSyndicated copies:
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Read 4 Questions to Ask When Facebook Displays the Wrong Image for Your Post by Deborah Edwards-OnoroDeborah Edwards-Onoro (Lireo Designs)
Last weekend, my friend Virginia shared her latest blog post on Facebook, about excellent Ada Lovelace Day posters for women in STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math). Go ahead, download them! …
Deborah, if this sort of meta data is your cup of tea, you’re sure to love Kevin Marks’ article Decaying Silos as dead malls.
Format LinkPosted on November 17, 2019 7:57 amNovember 17, 2019Author Chris AldrichCategories Read, Social StreamTags Facebook, meta dataSyndicated copies:
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👓 Metadata, Part 2: Microformats | Lockedown Design & SEO

Read Metadata, Part 2: Microformats by John Locke (Lockedown Design & SEO)
In Part One of this miniseries on metadata, we looked at how you can use Schema.org markup to help search engines understand your website content better. Today, we’ll look at another widely used form of structured data markup, Microformats. Microformats is an initiative launched in 2005 by the web development community to give more semantic meaning to HTML.
Format LinkPosted on July 11, 2018 10:44 pmNovember 23, 2018Author Chris AldrichCategories IndieWeb, Read, Social StreamTags meta data, microformats, seoSyndicated copies:
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👓 Microdata, Part 3: Dublin Core Markup | Lockedown Design & SEO

Read Microdata, Part 3: Dublin Core Markup by John Locke (Lockedown Design & SEO)
In Part One of our miniseries on metadata, we examined Schema.org. In part Two, we looked at microformats. Today, we’ll close this series by looking at Dublin Core. The Dublin Core Metadata Intiative (DCMI) first began in 1995 in Dublin, Ohio. Since 2000, it has been used alongside other specialty markup languages, such as RDFa.
Format LinkPosted on July 11, 2018 10:44 pmNovember 23, 2018Author Chris AldrichCategories Read, Social StreamTags Dublin Core, meta dataSyndicated copies:
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Reply to Joseph Dickson on Another Open Graph test with the fallback image

Replied to Another Open Graph test with the fallback image by Joseph DicksonJoseph Dickson (LinuxBookPro)
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While you’re playing with Open Graph, you’re sure to appreciate this entertaining exercise: http://www.kevinmarks.com/partialsilos.html
Format StatusPosted on July 7, 2018 10:53 amJuly 7, 2018Author Chris AldrichCategories Reply, Social StreamTags meta data, open graph protocol, social mediaSyndicated copies:
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🔖 ImageSnippets Gallery

Bookmarked ImageSnippets Gallery by Echo Freelance (WordPress.org)
ImageSnippets lets you create a responsive image gallery using ImageSnippets end point, username, property and object.

Major features in ImageSnippets allows you to:
Add/remove/edit multiple galleries.
Regenerate your gallery manually or schedule an automated task.

We are using REST API (https://www.setcronjob.com/) that will allow you to create a cron job service for regenerating your gallery. To do so, you have to create an account and generate API token.
This looks interesting and reminds me I want to take a closer look at some linked data technology.

See also Image Snippets website.

h/t Margaret Warren (aka @ImageSnippets)

Posted on March 23, 2018 12:21 pmAuthor Chris AldrichCategories Bookmark, Social StreamTags images, linked data, meta data, photosSyndicated copies:
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