The Weblog MetaData Initiative
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The Weblog MetaData Initiative


The WMDI folks are moving forward and will soon be looking for alpha or pre-alpha testers. This is a ground floor opportunity.




- Cdml
Here is the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of constructing an XML markup language. "CDML is intended to be a method of describing a contra dance (or other, similarly structured, folk dances) in a form that can be read and written by both humans...

- 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...

- '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...

- Dublin Core
The Weblog MetaData Initiative (WMDI) had an experimental tool to read WMDI metadata. Since it is based on Dublin Core, it seems to handle that just fine. Catalogablog is marked up with qualified DC and it was read without any problems. If you have DC...

- 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...



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