Monthly Archives: October 2007

Thoughts on how to describe a PURL-​like service in RDF

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Prob­lem: you can add (POST) any con­tent to Talis Con­tent­box but you can­not provide under which URI will end up. The URI is gen­er­ated and it looks like http://​api​.talis​.com/​s​t​o​r​e​s​/​l​g​r​i​d​i​n​o​c​-​d​e​v​1​/​i​t​e​m​s​/​6​7​7​0​4​c​3​e​-​6​786 – 4223-​8701-​db4a493e0757

A PURL–like ser­vice would be use­ful and easy to describe in RDF (stored and query-​able via Metabox), dis­cuss­ing it on #talis, an example came up: Con­tinue reading →

W3C Tech Reports and Readability

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I noticed that I always print any W3C TR in order to read it… and I dis­covered one reason: the lack of a (good) typo­graphic style.

Basic­ally the issues are:

  1. the text is too wide (if you shrink the win­dow you have to scroll hori­zont­ally for tables and code samples)
  2. the line spa­cing is too small, and makes dif­fi­cult to fol­low the line, espe­cially on lists which some­times have mixed fonts (usu­ally mono­spaced and serif)
  3. there is no ver­tical rhythm, and this tires your eyes (read brain)

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