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Thoughts on Citability

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Over this week­end (9 – 11th April) I watched on Ustream the Cit­ab­il­ity CODEATHON. I already knew about Cit​ab​il​ity​.org from Silona Bone­wald (@Silona on twit­ter), but the codea­thon (from an spec­tator point of view) was very inter­est­ing as both dis­cus­sions and prototypes.

What is cit​ab​il​ity​.org?
Cit­ab­il­ity sup­ports mak­ing pub­lic gov­ern­ment doc­u­ments and data avail­able online and cit­able such that they can be eas­ily ref­er­enced for pub­lic debate, com­ment­ary and ana­lysis. This requires that archived ver­sions of doc­u­ments be stored and link­able so that changes can be eas­ily spot­ted and ref­er­ence links remain intact.
(from http://​dccodea​thon​.pbworks​.com)

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Ubiquity and “The Semantic Web” (part 2)

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I’ll assume that who reads this knows what Ubi­quity is, if not check it out, it’s awesome.

Since Ubi­quity can remem­ber edits you do to a page (via edit and save com­mands), it may also be able to remem­ber what other com­mands you applied to a piece of con­tent, such that when you revisit that page you’ll see a small visual hint (could be sim­ilar to Alex Faaborg micro­formats exper­i­ments, or Aza Raskin’s mouse Ubi­quity exper­i­ments) that would let you re-​apply the command.

Ima­gine that you visit a blog post about a party, and the map com­mand is just one click away just because you did it before.

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Ubiquity and “The Semantic Web”

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Aza Raskin on con­ver­sa­tional com­put­ing and “The Semantic Web” (lov­ing the quotes)

OK, how can we have Ubi­quity pub­lish what people map (with their per­mis­sion, of course), what com­mands they use on what piece of content?

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