Library Cataloging
Somewhere along the way the Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) evolved into the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA).
- Open Publication Distribution System (opds) Catalog Format For Digital Content
Version 1.0 of the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) Catalog format for digital content has been released.The open ebook community and the Internet Archive are pleased to announce the release of the first production version of the Open Publication...
- Html5: Microdata
The use of microdata (i.e. microformats) is being considered by the HTML community. A Draft Recommendation has just been released. That would mean it is not yet a standard, still open to comments. "Sometimes, it is desirable to annotate content with specific...
- Pew Report On Tagging
The Pew Internet and American Life Project has released a report on tagging.Just as the internet allows users to create and share their own media, it is also enabling them to organize digital material their own way, rather than relying on pre-existing...
- Metadata
'Marketing' with Metadata - How Metadata Can Increase Exposure and Visibility of Online Content by M. Moffat describes the benefits of having metadata visible on your site.There are many advantages of exposing metadata. If you want people to be...
- '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...
Library Cataloging
PICS -> ICRA
Somewhere along the way the Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) evolved into the Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA).
As a web author, we invite you to use our system to describe, that is, label, your online content in a way that can be processed by computers. The system is designed to be as objective as possible: ICRA makes no value judgements at all about any content.
Users, principally parents of young children, then apply their own judgement in deciding which sites should and should not be available in their homes or workplaces. This is done by means of software that can read and interpret the labels found.
- Open Publication Distribution System (opds) Catalog Format For Digital Content
Version 1.0 of the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) Catalog format for digital content has been released.The open ebook community and the Internet Archive are pleased to announce the release of the first production version of the Open Publication...
- Html5: Microdata
The use of microdata (i.e. microformats) is being considered by the HTML community. A Draft Recommendation has just been released. That would mean it is not yet a standard, still open to comments. "Sometimes, it is desirable to annotate content with specific...
- Pew Report On Tagging
The Pew Internet and American Life Project has released a report on tagging.Just as the internet allows users to create and share their own media, it is also enabling them to organize digital material their own way, rather than relying on pre-existing...
- Metadata
'Marketing' with Metadata - How Metadata Can Increase Exposure and Visibility of Online Content by M. Moffat describes the benefits of having metadata visible on your site.There are many advantages of exposing metadata. If you want people to be...
- '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...