44 month ago
plasticbag : Thingtagging: Pictures of objects - A project that Mr Biddulph's been working on for fun built off the back of Thinglink.org. I did some of the colouring-in work for him in return for his immortal soul. It's pretty cool.
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49 month ago
plasticbag : Jakob Neilson's recommendations on URL in 1999 were pretty good even though he forecast that they would disappear within five years... - As it happens, I think URLs are becoming more important if anything - as people start to understand how fundamental they are to giving your site or service all the benefits of being truly native to the web...
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49 month ago
plasticbag : Mike Schinkel's piece last year on well-Designed URLs - This was one of the pieces that I've used as a source recently, although I'm not sure I agree with the idea of recommending alternative short URLs for print. Otherwise, pretty great stuff...
deusx : Mike Schinkel's Miscellaneous Ramblings - Well Designed URLs are Beautiful! - "The following are my (current) set of rules for how to ensure beautiful URLs"
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54 month ago
plasticbag : Frequently Asked Questions about the ISAN version identifier for audiovisual works - "The first 16 hexadecimal digits of the ISAN relate to the audiovisual work. This work segment is further sub-divided into two parts: a 12-digit root segment followed by a 4-digit segment for the identification of episodes or parts when applicable." Huge.
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55 month ago
plasticbag : Matt Biddulph talks "Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists" - We've been having enormous fun at work at the moment experimenting with semantic network effects at the level of services. Totally worth a read this. Tip of the ice-berg...
Paul Hammond : hackdiary: Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists - an impressive result that comes at zero cost
kellan : hackdiary: Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists - I think we're starting to reach a tipping point of sufficient semi-structured data on the web. #
philgyford : Hackdiary: Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists - Matt Biddulph doing clever stuff. Would be good to try this with some Pepys stuff I think.
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58 month ago
plasticbag : The Application of Web-like Design to Data: Designing Data for Reuse - Matt Biddulph's paper at XTech talks about the work we did together on the PIPs project, and on identifiers and web services
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61 month ago
plasticbag : A really nice and positive response to our ETech paper on Programme Information Pages - Yeah, I got quite over-excited by the end of the paper and couldn't stop droning on about it...
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plasticbag : RFC 2838 (rfc2838) - Uniform Resource Identifiers for Television Broadcasts - I should be gripped by this, but it's so banally broadcast-oriented that it's stunning to think that internet people even wrote it. Doesn't even have identifiers for episodes or shows...
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63 month ago
jkottke : All ISBNs will move from 10 digits to 13 digits in 2007 - I wonder how Amazon will handle old URLs with the 10 digit ISBNs.
plasticbag : ISBNs go 13 digit. After the PIPs project at work I have a bit of a thing about identifiers like ISBNs... Seems really badly designed to me, but hey... - "The new 13-digit ISBN has been approved and plans are underway to transition to the new number industry-wide, world-wide by January 1, 2007. Find out how the expansion of the ISBN from 10-digits to 13-digits will impact your business and operations."
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64 month ago
plasticbag : MusicBrainz come to the BBC's learning lunch - After working on a project around programme information for most of the last year, I've started to get really interested in standard identifiers and metadata for all kinds of things. A universal CRID for songs is - I think - just a question of time...
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65 month ago
plasticbag : Shelf life - applications of RFID in Libraries - At the moment almost the most important things that technologists shouls be developing are systems of identifiers for objects and concepts and things, ways of inter-relating them and new ways of describing them.
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