Maybe this is a record for delayed blogging. Nine and a half years late, here’s a writeup I found (on a corpsed hard-drive) of an image metadata workshop held by NISO, in Washington. I wrote it up for the JISC JIDI project at ILRT, who funded my trip. I’m sure they won’t mind it being [...]
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All your photos…
Another day, another massive leak of hosted personal photos. They’re probably being crawled by fake dating sites as I type this.
“Meet these girls from $geoipdb.UserLocationFromIPAddress() now!“, etc.
They’ll probably end up in bittorrent too, alongside the recent Myspace leaked photos.
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Waving not Drowning? groups as buddylist filters
I’ve lately started writing up and prototyping around a use-case for the “Group” construct in FOAF and for medium-sized, partially private data aggregators like SparqlPress. I think we can do something interesting to deal with the social pressure and information load people are experiencing on sites like Flickr and Twitter.
Often people have rather large lists [...]
Also posted in Essays, SPARQL, Technology, ggg Tagged facebook, filters, flickr, FOAF, groups, information overload, sparqlpress, twitter, xfn 5 Comments
MySpace open data oopsie
Latest megasite privacy screwup, this time from MySpace who appear to have allowed users to consider photos “private” when associated with a private profile, while (as far as I can make out) have the URLs visible of guessable. Whoopsadaisy. Predictably enough someone has crawled and shared many of the images. Wired reports that the site [...]
Flickr (Yahoo) upcoming support for OpenID
According to Simon Willison, Flickr look set to support OpenID by allowing your photostream URL (eg. for me, http://www.flickr.com/photos/danbri/) to serve as an OpenID, ie. something you can type wherever you see “login using OpenID” and be bounced to Flickr/Yahoo to provide credentials instead of remembering yet another password. This is rather good news.
For the [...]
Also posted in FOAF, Web Technology, ggg 4 Comments
Imagemap magic
I’ve always found HTML imagemaps to be a curiously neglected technology. They seem somehow to evoke the Web of the mid-to-late 90s, to be terribly ‘1.0′. But there’s glue in the old horse yet…
A client-side HTML imagemap lets you associate links (and via Javascript, behaviour) with regions of an image. As such, they’re a form [...]
Also posted in FOAF, Semantic Web, Technology, Web Technology, coding 2 Comments
HTML Imagemap authoring tool for MacOSX?
I’ve searched around in vain for one. I want to annotate my FOAF spec diagram with mouseover text and links into the documentation. Most of the tools I find are a decade or more old, or pay-to-play. I remember the Gimp image editor can do imagemaps, but it crashes on startup on my MacBook. I [...]
Also posted in FOAF, RDF, Technology 6 Comments
FOAF diagram (day 2)
FOAF diagram (day 2)
Originally uploaded by danbri
Another revision, after feedback from Ivan.
The original had “Thing” in italics (a convention I tried before adding in doap: dc: and sioc: references), to indicate it was from another namespace. I’ve now made that heritage explicit (although I suspect it might confuse, the idea is [...]
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FOAF spec diagram
experimental foafspec diagram
Originally uploaded by danbri
I’ve been trying to capture the core terms of FOAF in a diagram. Here’s version two.
Notes: there are a few terms I’ve missed out, to avoid massive clutter: workInfoHomepage, geekcode, myersBriggs, currentProject, pastProject, dnaChecksum, membershipClass, sha1, fundedBy, theme, Online*XyzAccount, logo, phone. These are all underspecified, underused, [...]
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