As you can see i’m using Shelley Powers metadatas plugins and i think it’s a wonderful way to demonstrate the usability of RDF and its power…

Meanwhile i understand how they work, i want to introduce some ideas to improve them…

There is a post where i have discussed some of them some times ago, but now i want to make them clearer…

Look at the Giuseppe Granieri’s Blog and tell me what you are seeing…

The block at the end of every post, called “Building analogies“, is a block of pure metadata about the post itself, but it’s not encoded in RDF… until now…

The idea is merging the hacks of the writer of “Practical RDF“ and her good pragmatic point of view of tecnology and the social ideas of analogies from Granieri experiments…

Viewing at the Powers’s plugins

The plugins available are at this moment:

  • Links plugin - which will parse out hypertext links in a post and store them as RDF data. This then can be used to add a link list to your syndication feed or your post, or however else you want to use the data
  • SeeAlso Plugin - allows you to add one or more external references to a post, and have a list of these printed out in the page and/or syndicated feed.
  • Photo plugin - accesses the Flickr API to gather metadata about a Flickr embedded photo in the post. The data is then output via a link, added by plugin

Looking at the first two plugins: they are very interesting, aren’t they?

My Building analogies ideas

Granieri’s purpose is giving us some external links to the topics covered in a post using technorati tags for opinions, flickr photos for images related to and del.icio.us service for links associated to the topics of the post…

But we can make other efforts to have something similar to Granieri “analogies” and IMHO this is a good experiment to enable metadata working for the masses…

This is also a sort of Lazyweb request; the time is never enough…so…

This is my effort and my idea of a RDF-based “Building analogies” block:

Building analogies:

Links we are talking about: - using links plugin
Ideas and opinions: - using technorati tags
Links: - using del.icio.us
Pics: - using flickr
Other stuff: - using seealso plugin

Stay tuned and thanks to Shelley Powers initiative :)