[ via Ben Hammersley ] Built atop XML Topic Maps, eXchangable Faceted Metadata Language, or
XFML allows for easy creation of advanced, automatically generated navigation for your website. You can even automatically generate links to related topics on other websites. It also allows for merging of metadata between different websites.
I’ll be looking at this.
Update: well, I’ve [...]
[ via Michael Ward ] The Spectaor (UK) reviews an anthology on indexes and indexing:
The review pulls out several gems of humor and wit in indexing. It is part of the book’s metadata, often compiled by someone other than the author, so the book may come with its own reviewer:
What the anthology demonstrates abundantly and [...]
[ via Boing Boing ] How to link to documents in THOMAS, the Library of Congress’ site for tracking bills and other Congressional business.
Paul Prescod writes about REST as an alternative to SOAP and XML-RPC. In REST, the URL is the API.
[ via Shifted Librarian ] Because she asked us to keep spreading the meme:
“Librarians can catalogue anything from an onion to a dog’s ear.† They could catalogue you.”
MKDoc is a content management system with a web interface. MKDoc appears to produce RDF metadata documents for every document in the system. There’s now a distribution you can download from their site.
Site redesigns and platform changes may break valuable links to your site from search engines. An article in ClickZ discusses the problem. I also suggest using mod_rewrite to fix the problem.
Dublin Core is a set of elements for describing resources. Somewhere in the past couple of years, the DC group adopted RDF. Now the Dublin Core group’s released a simple scheme for encoding resource data as an XML document which is also valid RDF.
The question is if indexing tools will look for and use these [...]
Great stuff from the referrer logs, Már Örlygsson’s comments on URL design.
The Nielsen Norman Group — responsible for annoying designers, creative directors, and Director hacks — now has Tog and Brenda Laurel in their rotation. This ought to be fun.
A worked example of using the XSLT document() function instead of the import element to build a style sheet from multiple sources.
Joust is a JavaScript outline control for displaying interactive site navigation.
[ via Camworld ] BabelScript is a JavaScript for adding display preferences to a Web page (select a style, level of graphics.)
Dan Bricklin thinks about when you should use a tool and when you should get to the metal and code HTML.
I’m certain that Nielsen’s got something on UIs that turn against their own users. Tog did.
