Search Engine Land.com:
Yelp…is…essentially a poster-child for semantic markup. This spring, Google’s introduction of rich snippets has allowed Yelp’s listings in the SERPs to stand out more, attracting consumers to click more due to the “bling” decorating the listings in the form of the star ratings.
There are now some very good reasons why sites with ratings [...]

Posted October 14, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: microformats, semantic markup, semantic web, web development. Be the first one.

lbjay uses both the Tabulator and Semantic Radar Firefox plugins to do magic with RDF in his browser.

Posted January 12, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: browser plugin, firefox, linked data, RDF, semantic web. Be the first one.

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 Bisson
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 Bisson
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 Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: data standards, libraries, library, metadata, microformat, microformats, networked information, semantic web. 6 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 Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: geographic, geolocation, gis, map, metadata, semantic web. One Comment.