A member of the Web4lib mail list asked:
How do I create a semantic web site?
I know I have to use either RDF or OWL but do I use either of these to create a mark up language which I then use to create the web site or, with the semantic web do we move away [...]
Posted January 9, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: libraries, markup, networked information, semantic web, semantics, web design. One Comment.
Kansas State University’s Digital Ethnography group — “a working group of Kansas State University students and faculty dedicated to exploring and extending the possibilities of digital ethnography” — posted this visual explanation of Web 2.0. It’s by Michael Wesh, assistant professor of cultural anthropology, and it rocks.
Text is unilinear…when written on paper.
Digital text is different.
Hypertext [...]
Posted February 7, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: cultural anthropology, digital ethnography, future of the web, kansas state university, Michael Wesh, semantic web, video, visual explanation, web 2.0, wisdom of crowds. 3 Comments.
Oliver Brown introduced me to microformats a while ago, the Ryan Eby got excited about them, then COinS-PMH showed how useful they could be for libraries, but I still haven’t done anything with them myself (other than beg Peter Binkley to release his COinS-PMH WordPress Plugin).
What are microformats? Garrett Dimon explains the theory:
When writing markup [...]
Posted December 8, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: data standards, libraries, library, metadata, microformat, microformats, networked information, semantic web. 5 Comments.
A an old John Udell piece at InfoWorld hints at GeoURLs, but the GoeURL site is down, and has been for a while. The concept sounds interesting: you mark pages with coordinates, then use GIS to map those pages to geographic locations, finding pages and people of interest along the way.
To join GeoURL, you add [...]
Posted November 26, 2004 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: geographic, geolocation, gis, map, metadata, semantic web. One Comment.