By @edent · HTML metadata schema.org · 6 comments · 300 words
My name is Terence(/ˈtɛɹəns) Eden(ˈiːdən/). Modern HTML allows the user to use <ruby> to annotate text. This is usually used for furigana - which allows pronunciation to be placed above words. For example: "シン・ゴジラ (Shin Godzilla)" shows you how to pronounce both words if you are unfamiliar with kanji. The text can be any language […]
Continue reading →By @edent · HTML schema.org semantic web · 7 comments · 650 words · read ~2,029 times.
I'm a little bit obsessed with the idea of Semantic markup. I want the words that I write to be understood my humans and machines. Imagine this piece of code: print( "Hello, world!" ) Is that code example written in Python? C++? Basic? Go? Perhaps you're familiar enough with every programming language to tell - […]
Continue reading →By @edent · AI schema.org · 2 comments · 700 words
One of the (many) problems with AI is that training data usually needs to come from "natural" sources. If you want to emulate human-written text, you need to train something on human-written text. But with the proliferation of cheap and fast AI tools, it is likely that training data will unwillingly become contaminated with AI-written […]
Continue reading →By @edent · linked data linkedin schema.org · 4 comments · 600 words
I'm a big fan of machine-readable metadata. It's useful for programs which need to extract information from messy and complicated websites. It's always surprising where it turns up. For example, take this post of mine on LinkedIn. If you view the source, you'll see this scrap of linked data: <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": […]
Continue reading →By @edent · HTML5 schema.org semantic web · 4 comments · 350 words · read ~2,110 times.
If you hang around with computerists long enough, they start talking about the Semantic Web. If you can represent human knowledge in a way that's easy for computers to understand it will be transformative for information processing. But computers, traditionally, haven't been very good at parsing ambiguous human text. Suppose you saw this text written […]
Continue reading →By @edent · plugin schema.org WordPress · 4 comments · 500 words
I've started adding Restaurant Reviews to this blog - with delicious semantic metadata. Previously I'd been posting all my reviews to HappyCow. It's a great site for finding veggie-friendly food around the worlds, but I wanted to experiment more with the IndieWeb idea of POSSE. So now I can Post on my Own Site and […]
Continue reading →By @edent · HTML5 meta metadata schema.org semantic web WordPress · 2 comments · 850 words
As regular readers will know, I love adding Semantic things to my blog. The standard WordPress comments HTML isn't very semantic - so I thought I'd change that. Here's some code which you can add to your blog's theme - an an explanation of how it works. The aim is to end up with some […]
Continue reading →By @edent · HTML5 metadata schema.org · 5 comments · 450 words · read ~2,413 times.
Inspired by John Hoare at the Dirty Feed blog - I've asked the British Library to assign my blog an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN). An ISSN is an 8-digit code used to identify newspapers, journals, magazines and periodicals of all kinds and on all media–print and electronic. Why? Shut up. OK. It turns out […]
Continue reading →By @edent · HTML5 NaBloPoMo schema.org semantic web · 4 comments · 250 words · read ~334 times.
Academic citations are hard. One of the joys of the Digital Object Identifier System (DOI) is that every academic paper gets a unique reference - like: 10.34053/artivate.8.2.2. As well as always leading you to a URl of the paper, a DOI also provides lots of metadata. Things like author, publisher, ORCID, year of publication etc. […]
Continue reading →By @edent · metadata php schema.org WordPress · 1,200 words
This is a real "scratch my own itch" post. I want to add Schema.org semantic metadata to the book reviews I write on my blog. This will enable "rich snippets" in search engines. There are loads of WordPress plugins which do this. But where's the fun in that?! So here's how I quickly built it […]
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