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Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
Position Paper for the W3C Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents
This document represents the consensus opinion of the Mozilla Foundation and Opera Software in the context of standards for Web Applications and Compound Documents.
The lost art of XML — mmagueta
There exists a peculiar amnesia in software engineering regarding XML. Mention it in most circles and you will receive knowing smiles, dismissive waves, the sort of patronizing acknowledgment reserved for technologies deemed passé. "Oh, XML," they say, as if the very syllables carry the weight of obsolescence. "We use JSON now. Much cleaner."
Files As Metadata Format
File structures with simple contents can be used instead of YAML, TOML or JSON. More effectively!
WDC - RDFa, Microdata, and Microformat Data Sets
More and more websites have started to embed structured data describing products, people, organizations, places, and events into their HTML pages using markup standards such as Microdata, JSON-LD, RDFa, and Microformats. The Web Data Commons project extracts this data from several billion web pages. So far the project provides 12 different data set releases extracted from the Common Crawls 2010 to 2023. The project provides the extracted data for download and publishes statistics about the deployment of the different formats.
MetaOCaml
Introduction to BER MetaOCaml: how to use, how to install, the current status and the future development
Newspaper3k: Article scraping & curation — newspaper 0.0.2 documentation
Inspired by requests for its simplicity and powered by lxml for its speed:
Metamedia
The term metamedia, coined by Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg, refers to new relationships between form and content in the development of new technologies and new media.[1]
Web Platform Design Principles
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User Agents
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DASL: MASL — Metadata for Arbitrary Structures & Links
MASL is a CBOR-based metadata system that is designed to work well with content-addressed and decentralised systems, to enable fully self-contained, self-certified content distribution.
UI/UX Guidelines - User Experience Design & Technology
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are a set of internationally recognized standards for making web content accessible to people with disabilities. Created by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), WCAG provides a framework for designing inclusive digital platforms that cater to diverse user needs, including those with visual, auditory, cognitive, and physical impairments.
OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC — Subcommittee | OASIS
Advancing a document creation and management specification that builds content reuse into the authoring process
Research Object Crate (RO-Crate)
RO-Crate is a community effort to establish a lightweight approach to packaging research data with their metadata. It is based on schema.org annotations in JSON-LD, and aims to make best-practice in formal metadata description accessible and practical for use in a wider variety of situations, from an individual researcher working with a folder of data, to large data-intensive computational research environments.
This generated some discussion so I want to expand on it a bit The context is that standard.site doesn't currently have any lexicons for the actual content. The idea is that the document content is covered by leaflet, offprint, pckt, or other lexicons. But...
P(aul) Frazee
You shouldn’t use lexicons that don’t actually exist