Ideas for promoting and selling art, music, and writing, using long tail economics, and the new internet business models available for artists, writers and musicians, from artist Paul Watson.
Schema.org/VisualArtwork - A series of 3 posts: post 2 of 3. What is VRA Core? VRA Core is a data standard for the description of works of visual culture as well as the images that document them. Works of visual culture can include objects or events such as paintings, drawings, sculpture,…
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This is a short post about how to use schema.org/QuantitativeValue in a way which is machine-readable, human-readable, accessible, and typographically correct. Schema.org/QuantitativeValue is used to express the height, width, and depth properties on instances of schema.org/Product and schema.org/VisualArtwork.…
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In a recent post I gave some examples of how to use Getty AAT Linked Open Data with the new schema.org/VisualArtwork. After some advice from Dan Brickley and Richard Wallis in a comment thread on Github about the difference between the “keywords” and “about” properties I found out…
Schema.org/VisualArtwork - A series of 3 posts: post 3 of 3. Linked Open Data In this post I want to get a bit more technical and introduce the concept of Linked Open Data. Linked Open Data is a way of publishing structured data that allows metadata to be connected and enriched, so…
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It was back in April 2013 when I first started thinking about how schema.org could be used to semantically mark up artwork on web pages, and a month later when I proposed my initial solution on the W3CPublic Vocabs mailing list. That all feels like a long time ago now, but I’m happy to…
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UPDATE: Schema.org/VisualArtwork has now been officially accepted. Details are available in a series of 3 posts: Schema.org’s VisualArtwork launched Mapping existing data stored in VRA Core 4 format to schema.org’s VisualArtwork Getty AAT Linked Open Data in schema.org’s VisualArtwork …
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I’ve written quite a lot on this blog about metadata in your HTML—particularly RDFa and Schema.org—so I thought I’d turn my attention to another sort of metadata that is useful for artists: image metadata. What is image metadata and why it is important for artists? …
Earlier today Matt Cutts of Google tweeted about a new feature on Google’s Image Search: It’s a new tool that allows users to filter their image search results by Usage Rights, allowing them to only find images that have various Creative Commons licences. Now you can slice/dice Google…
To start off 2014 I’ve launched a brand new version of my website. As you can see, this blog, which used to be on its own subdomain of new-media.lazaruscorporation.co.uk, has moved to its new home of www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/arts-tech, and the RSS feed is now available at http://feeds.feedburner.com/artstech. For…