On Nov 29, 2005, at 8:20 AM, Ryan Cannon wrote:
My name is Ryan Cannon and I am a master's student at U of M
studying human-computer interaction, semantic web design, and
basically looking for ways to contribute to the field. I read about
Microformats in the Digitial Web Magazine Primer and more recently
in Boss & Lie's article in A List Apart. I think the idea of µf is
an incredible one—essentially codifying best practices for common
applications. I believe this will go a long way to abstracting
semantic XHTML development once the dev. tools support it well.
Welcome, a fellow grad student. :D
Anyway, I've rooted around in the archives, but perhaps I've missed
something. Some in my field have uncovered that the way people
attempt to search the internet is much different than what the
technology allows. For instance, people want to search for
categories of web sites, e.g. news sites, personal sites,
informational sites, or stores. This does not convert well with the
Title/Description/Keyword and tags method currently in place. What
we're missing, to use the library analog, is a "subject" field.
If it's already taking place, I'd like to join in the discussion
about embedding self-reported genre or subject metadata in web
pages. What this would allow, once properly implemented, is the
ability for search engines to do something along the following:
As Chris already meantioned, see http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-
directory. Also, see http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag.
Search for words: "Disney"
In websites about: "Tourism"
and not about: "Stores OR Merchandise"
Please excuse the gratuitous mention of my employer, but you can do
this on technorati already. For example, this search will give you
[most of] what you ask for:
http://technorati.com/search/disney?blogtag=tourism
(we don't have complex blogtag queries, just simple inclusion).
Being new to this discussion, I'm not aware of the larger issues
around an idea like this, but a large one comes to mind: there's no
engine in place to take advantage of it. But that didn't stop XFN.
Please send me your comments. I've begun to read some of the wiki
about proposing formats, but I'm nowhere near that stage. I'm more
interested in if this discussion is taking place, and the things to
keep in mind when talking about invisible metadata and search engines.
Cheers,
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Ryan Cannon
Interactive Developer
MSI Student, School of Information
University of Michigan
http://RyanCannon.com/
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