'Blog Metadata
There are several projects to add metadata to Web logs to provide better access to them. However, everybody seems to be working in isolation. I began by adding Dublin Core, A-Core and PICS. That was OK. DC and PICS were standards, and A-Core was based on DC.
Next came Blogchalk Simple and easy to apply. There was a tool to search 'blogs that had been chalked, but that seems to be no longer working.
This was followed by the Weblog MetaData Initiative (WMDI). This was standards based, an extension of Dublin Core. A tool to read and compile WMDI is available. It will read qualified DC, no need for the WMDI additions. Nice.
The latest is Janes' Blogosphere. It uses non-standard markup but has a suite of tools to create, read and interpret the metadata and 'blog entries.
All this work going in different directions. What is needed is a metadata standard for 'blogs, like WMDI that supports a suite of tools like Janes' to add the medadata to the template and interpret it. Talk to each other people and work together. A widely adopted standard metadata for Web logs could be used in RSS, OPML, OAI-MHP and other Web services. It could improve access in so many ways.
- Metadata Markup
Now available: Cordes, Christopher Sean (2005) Creating HTML Meta-tags with the Dublin Core Element Set. Tutorial.The breadth and scope of information available online and through intranets are making the standardization and use of metadata to identify...
- Dc & Openurl
The OpenURL community has posted, for comments, the paper Dublin Core Community Profile (DCCP) for Simple Dublin Core in KEV Format.This profile will allow the transport of metadata using the fifteen Dublin Core elements as key/value pairs on an OpenURL....
- 'blog Metadata
The Weblog MetaData Initiative has opened a SourceForge project for WMDI, and has uploaded the .PHP files for the Ecosystem as well as the .SQL files necessary to create the appropriate database schema. This is the beginning of the real open source phase...
- Metadata For Web Logs
From Janes' Blogosphere Technology This looks promising, tools and standards. I'll have to look at it in more detail. I've taken off the link to WMDI, that seems to have stalled, and added a link to this project.I am proposing a core set of...
- Metadata
Metadata for Web logs is being discussed at the Weblog MetaData Initiative or WMDI.The guiding principle behind the initiative is that by creating standards in the weblog metadata "problem space", we can enable greater collaboration and interaction between...