{"id":149,"date":"2005-06-22T17:47:39","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T21:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2005\/06\/22\/metawiki-wikicite-and-worldcat\/"},"modified":"2005-06-22T17:47:39","modified_gmt":"2005-06-22T21:47:39","slug":"metawiki-wikicite-and-worldcat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2005\/06\/22\/metawiki-wikicite-and-worldcat\/","title":{"rendered":"MetaWiki, WikiCite, and WorldCat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a919'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oclc.org\/research\/staff\/young.htm\">Jeff Young<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/outgoing.typepad.com\/outgoing\">Outgoing<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oclc.org\/research\/staff\/hickeyt.htm\">Thom Hickey<\/a> are working on developing a<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/outgoing.typepad.com\/outgoing\/2005\/05\/metawiki.html\">Metawiki<\/a> to hold structured metadata along with each record.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talis.com\/\">Talis<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talis.com\/advisory_board\/\">advisor<\/a> <a href>Paul Miller<\/a> (of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.common-info.org.uk\/thoughts\/\">Common Information Environment<\/a> fame) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.common-info.org.uk\/thoughts\/archives\/2005\/06\/silkworm_unlock.html\">comments<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <i>It would be interesting &#8211; in the spirit of openness and cooperation &#8211; to understand any relationships between the [Silkworm] Directory and OCLC&#8217;s MetaWiki.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Contrast this with recent ideas about a <a href=\"http:\/\/meta.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Wikicite\"><b>WikiCite<\/b><\/a> project for annotating all references that might be used in books or encyclopedia articles, and you can see a lovely tool just waiting to emerge.<\/p>\n<p>The Wikimedians don&#8217;t care about the differences between the Silkworm Directory and the Metawiki and Wikidata; they just want to get down to creating annotations as soon as possible.  People can argue over what format they should be in and how they should be propoagated later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Young and Outgoing&#8216;s Thom Hickey are working on developing a Metawiki to hold structured metadata along with each record. Talis advisor Paul Miller (of Common Information Environment fame) comments: It would be interesting &#8211; in the spirit of openness and cooperation &#8211; to understand any relationships between the [Silkworm] Directory and OCLC&#8217;s MetaWiki. Contrast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metrics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-2p","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}