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Clusters and Flows of Data: The Twitter Way

The playing-field of Twitter annotations and the challenge to the developer community.

Mixing Semantic Vocabularies and Basic English

Microformats make sense to me immediately, in a way that RDF never has. By focusing on visible data, the markup retains a high degree of interoperability with existing…

Tag-a-long

Our formal attempts at understanding language tend to be hierachically structured, but when it comes to actually organizing language, it is well known that meaning is relational and constantly fluctuates.…

Matapihi

Matapihi is a free collaborative service stretching across New Zealand's collective cultural archive (see also: PictureAustralia and Images Canada). The search tool provides access…

NZ: Remote Tagging and Reverse Relationships

In Remote Tagging: A Richer Social Model, Stowe Boyd describes an addition to the RelTag microformat that allows shared tags themselves to be embedded in the link.…