1. Metadata and Weblogs
Patrick Danowski
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

2. About me
• Librarian
• Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
• Library 2.0
• http://www.bibliothek2null.de

3. Outline
• Metadata and Blog now
• Zotero and something about motivation
• How to: Context Object in Spans
• Wordpress can do it for you
• Conclusions

4. Metadata today

5. Cite Blogs
• Most times used:
Danowski, Patrick: Support Zotero with
Wordpress (en) In: Bibliothek 2.0 und
mehr, 1 August 2007 <http://
www.bibliothek2null.de/2007/08/01/
support-zotero-with-wordpress-en/>
[3 November 2007].

9. Zotero

10. COinS
• Context Object in Spans
• A Convention to Embed Bibliographic
Metadata in HTML
• HTML span element with class attribute set
to quot;Z3988quot;
• http://ocoins.info

11. Format (simplified)
• <span
class=quot;Z3988quot; title=quot;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004
rft.title=Support+Zotero... rft.aulast=Danowski
rft.aufirst=Patrick
rft.subject=Software
rft.date=2007-08-01
rft.type=blogPost
rft.identifier=http://www.bibliothek2null.de/2007/08/01/support-zotero-with-wordpress-
en/&amp;rft.language=Englishquot;>
</span>

13. COinS in Weblogs

14. COinS in Weblogs

16. Wordpress and Coins
• There is a plug-in:
• just install it
• the rest is done automatically

17. Wordpress and Coins
• There is a plug-in:
• just install it
• the rest is done automatically
• http://dev.zotero.org/download/coins-
metadata.zip

18. Wordpress and Coins
• There is a plug-in:
• just install it
• the rest is done automatically
• http://dev.zotero.org/download/coins-
metadata.zip
• http://www.bibliothek2null.de/2007/08/01/
support-zotero-with-wordpress-en/

19. Conclusions
• Good Metadata can help scientist to grab a
blog-post more easy to cite it

20. Conclusions
• Good Metadata can help scientist to grab a
blog-post more easy to cite it
• If a library like to archive you blog, they will
like metadata

21. Conclusions
• Good Metadata can help scientist to grab a
blog-post more easy to cite it
• If a library like to archive you blog, they will
like metadata
• You already have the data, publish it in a
way, machines can read it

22. • Just do it!
• Contact:
Patrick Danowski
patrick.danowski@web.de
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