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<entry-title>SciBarCamp session: open science open data on today's web</entry-title> One of several microformats events.

When: 2009-07-09 from 10:30 to 2009-07-09 at 11:30
Where: IFTF, 124 University ave., 2nd floor, room 1, Palo Alto, CA
What: SciBarCamp session: open science open data on today's web.
URL: http://microformats.org/wiki/events/2009-07-09-scibarcamp-open-data
SciBarCamp URLs: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2373953/; http://www.scibarcamp.org/SciBarCamp_Palo_Alto

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Topics Discussed:

Install Firefox
Install the Operator plugin for Firefox
Edit http://www.scibarcamp.org/SciBarCamp_Palo_Alto/Attendee_List to add hCard to your name and URL
Note that you can add everyone else to your address book using Operator!
Open Science 7 points: http://tr.im/openscience
advantages of HTML over PDF/Word (media/device independence, coverage, future proofing, information focus (rather than print focus. definitely worth a longer write-up.)
open source converters to convert CSV to/from (X)HTML semantic tables would be great. (perhaps a to-do for Lazyweb)
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Q&A:

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Q: What is the best semantic markup or microformat for citations?
- A: At a minimum use the HTML 4.01 <cite> element and hyperlinks (<a href>, as this example does inline! "View Source" to see).
- Markup any references to people or organizations inside the <cite> with hCard
- There are numerous online citation-formats and there has been a lot of work toward developing a citation microformat. Take a look at the current proposals (citation-brainstorming and please add your input! Tantek
Q: is there a microformat to annotate "data" in general? e.g. experiment conditions, instrument recordings etc.
- A: start with hAtom to at least markup the datetime of data and the description/data itself as a stream.
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Blog posts following up on the meetup. Newest first.

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 :<span class="summary">SciBarCamp session: open science open data on today's web</span>.