03 Jul
2010
These are links I’ve found useful from 21 June through 28 June 2010:
- Publishing Local Open Data – Important Lessons from the Open Election Data project | data.gov.uk
Summary of project to publish data for the UK government election 2010 in an open, reusable and machine-readable format using linked data. Contains some valuable lessons on skills required, organisational obstacles to and the need for external suppliers of content management systems to increase their own capabilities when it comes to linked data. - Webmaster Tools – Rich Snippets Testing Tool
‘Rich Snippets allows you to enhance your Google search results by marking up web pages with Microformats, RDFa or Microdata.’ - Open Data Commons » ODC Attribution License (ODC-By)
If you want to share your data to enable others to share, create works based on it or adapt into new applications—on condition that any public use of the database is attributed back to you—this is a useful resource. - Four Steps to Finding Your Ideal Writing Voice | Copyblogger
Joy Tanksley tackles the questions ‘…what is voice, exactly? And how can you make it come through in your blog?’ - 10 expert tips on email marketing « Fiona Cullinan
Fiona Cullinan summarises a presentation by Tamara Gielen, an independent email marketing consultant. - A wireframe kit for Google Drawings and 5 reasons it beats Omnigraffle and Visio – Morten Just
Useful web interface stencils for use with Google Drawings, made by Morten Just. - 20 Warning Signs That Your Content Sucks | Copyblogger
Lots of useful pointers from Jonathan Morrow. Yes, I’m guilty of many of these. - Open Data Catalogue GitHub
Steve Woodward (@equaliser) has shared the entire application used to run Warwickshire County Council’s open data website. - A List Apart: Articles: Introduction to RDFa
Nice and easy introduction by Mark Birbeck to marking up your HTML using RDFa. - open data doesn’t empower communities | internet.artizans
‘Open data doesn’t empower communities. I’m not saying open data is a bad thing, but we need to highlight the gap between the semantic web and social impact. Otherwise we’ll continue to get swept along on a tide of technocratic enthusiasm where hope lies in a flood of data to create a data-literate citizenry’ says internetartizans.
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