Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

As a Semantic Web / Linked Data newbie, I’m struggling with finding the right URIs for properties and values. Say I have a screenshot as an PNG image file. If I were to describe it in the Atom feed format, I’d make an “entry” for it, write the file size into the “link/@length” attribute, the…

All the content-based software I know (WCMS, DAM and editorial systems) is built the same way: It stashes its data (content, metadata, workflow definitions, permissions) in a private, jealously guarded database. Which is great for control, consistency, performance, simpler development. But when you’re running multiple systems – each of which is an isolated data silo…

Deborah Fanslow – Who Needs a DAM Librarian? Part II: Information Professionals: A Field Guide: “Information professional specimens often manifest the following dispositions: perpetual curiosity, creativity, technical fluency, a compulsive need to create order out of chaos, and an intense passion for connecting people with information. […] Originating around the turn of the 19th century…

In software, the thing I’m most excited about at the moment is schema flexibility. (I first saw that term in a tweet by Emily Ann Kolvitz.) I think we’re losing a lot of valuable metadata, and business value, because the software we keep our structured data in makes it so hard to change the data…