- The3is In Three — PhD students must explain their thesis topic in three minutes and one Powerpoint slide. Winner had written on the last words of Shakespearean characters as they met unlikely ends. No video alas, but what a great idea for an Ignite! (via sciblogs)
- Google Wave: We Came, We Saw, We Played D&D (ArsTechnica) — gamers using Wave to play RPGs. This can’t be the killer app, however, because it is not pornographic. (via BoingBoing)
- Metadata is Public Record (ArsTechnica) — Arizone State Supreme Court rules that metadata on the public record is itself in the public record. The test case was a cop who suspected his performance reports had been created when he asked for them and then backdated. His employer had argued the inode info wasn’t part of the public record, even though his report was. Sanity prevailed. (via glynmoody on Twitter)
- Cell Size and Scale — sweet zoomable interface to show the different relationships in size between everything from Times Regular 12pt to a Carbon atom (via salt, E. coli, hemoglobin, etc.). (via Tom Carden on Delicious)
"metadata" entries
Strata Week: Cracking a book’s genetic code
Decoding book DNA, parsing Wikipedia with WikiHadoop, and the rise of the "Data Civilization"
BookLamp and the Book Genome Project look to book DNA for smarter recommendations, sorting through Wikipedia's vast data dump gets easier thanks to WikiHadoop, and a timeline from WolframAlpha charts major milestones in data knowledge.
Strata Week: How Facebook moved 30 petabytes of Hadoop data
Facebook migrates to a new datacenter, Ex-NASA CTO launches Nebula
In the latest Strata Week: Migrating 30 petabytes of Hadoop data, democratizing cloud computing, and "liking" library metadata.
Here's another reason why metadata matters
The ShowYou video app puts metadata (or the lack thereof) in the spotlight.
The ratio of content to attention is not in publishers' favor. So if you really want your material to be seen, you'll put extra effort into metadata.
Structured data powers Google’s Recipe View
Google used Rich Snippets to create a new recipe engine.
Google's new Recipe View mines structured data from the underlying code of web pages to produce results.
Structured data powers Google's Recipe View
Google used Rich Snippets to create a new recipe engine.
Google's new Recipe View mines structured data from the underlying code of web pages to produce results.
Metadata isn't a chore, it's a necessity
Laura Dawson on how metadata keeps publishers relevant.
Ignoring metadata is akin to chopping a tomato with a butter knife: bad idea. In this interview, Firebrand Technologies content chief Laura Dawson explains why metadata is an integral part of digital publishing.
Four short links: 30 October 2009
Three Minute Theses, Google Wave RPGs, Public Metadata, and The Finitely-Zoomable Natural World
Standardizing Tags in the Metadata Minefield
One issue we haven't discussed much is that of metadata. XML documents are by definition rife with metadata. At what point does metadata cross the line from useful to pollution? When it's not standardized. The kind of XML tagging we're primarily talking about can be sectioned into three buckets: rights data ("this picture is good for print products but not…