events/2009-07-09-scibarcamp-open-data
<entry-title>SciBarCamp session: open science open data on today's web</entry-title> One of several microformats events.
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- 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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tags: open-science open-data semantic-html sem-html BarCamp BarCamp2009 SciBarCamp SciBarCampPaloAlto sbcpa SciBarCamp2009 microformats-session microformats-meetup microformats palo-alto university-avenue microformats-session-2009-07-09
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Attendees
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- Tantek Çelik
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Notes
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
- A: At a minimum use the HTML 4.01 <cite> element and hyperlinks (
- 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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Photographs
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Blog posts
Blog posts following up on the meetup. Newest first.
- Awesome liveblogging of the session by Cameron Neylon: http://friendfeed.com/scibarcamp/826f90e0/sharing-data-on-web-tantek-celik
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