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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 existing applications, as well as paving the way for future, currently unforeseen metadata applications by reducing or eliminating much of the redundant, "reinventing the wheel" work currently involved in creating a new weblog metadata application.
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Metadata
Understanding Metadata, an introduction to metadata that includes an overview of leading metadata contenders and examples of practical applications, is now available as a free download from the National Information Standards Organization. The publication...
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'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...
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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...
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'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...
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Metadata
The Weblog MetaData Initiative has begun testing its metadata modelI've developed a specification which shows how to encode our general schema's metadata using only HTML [meta] tags. Along the way, I've also "Dublin Core-ized" our data schema,...
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