A schemaless computer database in 1965
To enable flexible metadata aggregation, among other things.
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February 23, 2012
Pull RDF metadata out of JPEGs, MP3s, and more
With open source Apache software.
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October 16, 2008
White paper on metadata standards
Not as confusing a choice as many think.
August 12, 2008
SKOS and SWOOP: how
A step-by-step example.
August 6, 2008
Using the ontology editing tool SWOOP to edit taxonomies and thesaurii
Hopefully, as a more powerful open source alternative to existing taxonomy packages.
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July 11, 2008
What is a taxonomy?
A standard definition.
April 6, 2008
Linked Data Planet program in place
Big names and big ideas.
March 7, 2008
Accessibility problems with microformats
By guest blogger Sarah Bourne, Chief Technology Strategist for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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February 15, 2008
Last day to submit for LinkedData Planet
Come join an illustrious group.
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February 1, 2008
The LinkedData Planet conference
September 18, 2007
Metadata data entry
Who (or what), and why.
August 26, 2007
Who uses metadata from HTML head/meta @name and @content attributes?
For example, name="DC.Title" content="My Title"?
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March 13, 2007
Metadata and metadata
A conference about metadata, full of strangers.
December 20, 2006
Navigating the library metadata landscape
With a subway map!
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August 21, 2006
What data is your metadata about, and where is it?
If metadata really is data about data...
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August 14, 2006
My new favorite typo
Data about meat?
March 18, 2006
XHTML 2 for storing content?
People will use XHTML 2 for more than shipping pages to browsers.
January 27, 2006
Metadata since the nineteenth century
Two good books.
January 24, 2006
All Your Google Base metadata taxonomy are belong to us
Google gives us a taxonomy.
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January 20, 2006
Meta-metadata
If metadata is data about data, then here's some handy data about metadata.
December 27, 2005
Technorati tags as metadata: making them more meta
Is it really metadata when you have to announce "here are my posting's Technorati tags"?
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December 22, 2005
Semantic web apparently moving along
There are various ways to measure it, but Danny Ayers shows that where it counts, it's making progress.
December 9, 2005
Using (or not using) Adobe's XMP metadata format
If Adobe is really interested in promoting XMP properly, they could learn a lot about developer relations from Yahoo and Amazon.
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