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National Poetry Foundation launches first Mesh

2008-08-11T08:04:00.000-07:00

The National Poetry Foundation is now the first organization to found its own Mesh:

Over forty authors from the National Poetry Foundation's conference on poetry of the seventies have published their work using a new Still Water tool that reveals connections among different peoples' writing. Who knew that "1973" and "John Ashbery" were on so many poets' minds? ThoughtMesh did.

A Mesh is a subset of articles linked using ThoughtMesh software; each Mesh is controlled by an individual or collective organization, and is typically devoted to a particular topic.

A tag cloud on the NPF Mesh home reveals the most common tags across
all the texts contributed by its members. Some are no
surprise--"poetics" and "modernism," for example--while others, such as
"1973," "John Ashbery," and "erotic," suggest themes for poets in the
seventies that might not otherwise have been evident.

Since the NPF took the plunge, other organizations have created their own Meshes, including the University of Cambridge and Still Water.

Yahoo lets you roll your own search engine

2008-07-10T13:39:00.001-07:00

Wired reports that Yahoo has done one better on Google's Custom Search by giving developers access to Yahoo's own index:

To start your own search engine using Yahoo data, sign up for an API key at Yahoo’s developer network.
The API works much like any web framework. Query the API, and you will
get an XML file of search results that match your query. Yahoo will
also provide a mash-up library in the Python programming language.

This could be a boon to archivists and anyone else who wants to write their own harvester using data scattered over a distributed network.

jon

Recent ThoughtMesh press

2008-06-12T15:18:00.001-07:00

Andrea Foster writes:

ThoughtMesh is a Web site that tags open-access scholarly papers with key words. Visitors can jump to passages in papers that contain those words. And they can see others' papers, throughout academe, tagged with the same words. A "cloud" of tagged words hovers above each paper.
Mr. Ippolito says the goal of ThoughtMesh is for scholars to get their work out quickly and identify others who might be able to help them in their research.

Gerry McKiernan of Scholarship 2.0, meanwhile, calls ThoughtMesh "a truly remarkable innovation."

jon

How ThoughtMesh distributes and connects

2007-12-10T03:07:00.000-08:00

The response to ThoughtMesh has been great so far, so I thought I would flesh out a bit more of the underlying architecture that makes ThoughtMesh tick. It's a model that might be useful for other applications in distributed publication.

Click image for larger version.

As this workflow indicates, authors do not need to archive their essays on the ThoughtMesh server to be accessible by the mesh. While the ThoughtMesh server, operated by USC's Vectors program, does store the contents of the essays, what's more important is that it stores the metadata associated with them. In this case, the critical metadata are tags for essay excerpts and urls that point to those essay excerpts.

This means that you can upload your meshed essay to your university account, at a free Web host like Geocities, or even run it off your hard-drive--and ThoughtMesh will still connect it to other essays in the mesh on the fly.

To do this ThoughtMesh requires a form of cross-site scripting not normally available to AJaX. Fortunately, Still Water Research Fellow John Bell contributed a program called Telamon--known in Greek mythology as the "Lesser Ajax"--that cleverly permits metadata from one site to be available behind the scenes to another.

ThoughtMesh's tag lookup server avoids the problem of silo'd essay repositories because it is less a database than a metadatabase. I believe this architecture--which is mirrored in version-tracking community registries like The Pool--offers a practical approach to distributed publication that solves many of the problems plaguing the rollout of the "Semantic Web," including the potential for unintended or intentional metadata corruption. With a metadatabase, you don't have to worry about newbies botching handwritten metadata tags, and you can build in trust metrics to thwart Viagra salesmen. (Did I mention that a future release of ThoughtMesh will incorporate John Bell's RePoste trust metric?)

jon

XML-Sitemaps helps Google crawl your Web site

2007-12-09T02:01:00.001-08:00

John Bell recommended this utility, which aims to reveal more of a "deeply linked" site to Google and other search engines. You can also use it to create a human-readable HTML sitemap for visitors to your Web site.

Apart from making it easier to map the entire structure of a complex site, I'm wondering if the tool could be leveraged to expose the "dark Web" of database-driven pages--eg, pages of the form index.php?id=234, which Google normally can't find.

jon

ThoughtMesh Helps Writers Connect Ideas

2007-10-20T10:13:00.000-07:00

Last week saw the launch of the first public release to emerge from research by the Interarchive working group. ThoughtMesh is an unusual model for publishing and discovering scholarly papers online. It gives readers a tag-based navigation system that uses keywords to connect excerpts of essays published on different Web sites.

Use ThoughtMesh to post your essay online, and you get a traditional left-hand navigation menu plus a tag cloud that enables nonlinear access to text excerpts. You can navigate through excerpts both within the original essay and from related essays across the mesh. Unlike the Google hack previously investigated by the Interarchive group (and described in this blog), ThoughtMesh offers an alternative to depending on commercial search engines. To be sure, researchers can still use Google to find essays meshed with this new software--unlike Flash-based or database-driven article repositories. But ThoughtMesh also offers a completely independent, tag-based discovery system: search for "media" + "installation" and you'll see the relevant excerpts in the current essay as well as any others meshed to date.

One other handy feature is ThoughtMesh's automatic tag generation, based on Chirag Mehta's spiffy Tagline software. Authors who want to customize their tags can, but those short on time can let the software do it for them.

For more on ThoughtMesh features, see the essay "New Media Scholar? Distribute and Connect!"

ThoughtMesh is a collaborative project by Vector's Craig Dietrich and Still Water co-director Jon Ippolito, with help from John Bell, Still Water Research Fellow and developer of the Telamon remote scripting software.

Transclusion: lightweight cross-references among sites

2007-07-13T06:48:00.001-07:00

Distributed publication just got a bit easier--and closer to Ted Nelson's original conception of hypertext--with this "transclusion" JavaScript library by Brad Neuberg et al. --jon.

Ajaxian » Purple Include: Transclusions, you know you want them!

"A transclusion is the inclusion of part of a document into another document by reference".

This means that you can include and display fragments of one HTML page in another without copying and pasting any content. For example, you could quote the second paragraph from another person's blog entry by embedding something like:

< hx :include src="http://foo.com/bar.html#xpath!/p[2]" />

Next browsers to support microformats

2007-05-03T07:34:00.000-07:00

(Posted to this blog on 5/3/07)

Remember Interarchive's distributed publication Google hack?

http://interarchive.blogspot.com/2006/04/primitive-distributed-publication-via.html

Well, maybe in the future it won't be a hack. Ars Technica is reporting that both Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 8 will support microformats:

"It is also widely speculated that IE 8 will include support for microformats, small tags embedded in HTML code that can be interpreted in various ways by software, such as calendar events or contact information. Microformat support is scheduled for
Firefox 3, so IE 8 will have to include them in order to keep up."

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070502-microsoft-drops-hints-about-internet-explorer-8.html

jon

Re: Bollacker accurately predicts preservation panacea!

2007-04-24T09:13:00.001-07:00

(Posted to this blog on 4/24/07)

I've been asked to clarify what I linked to in my message below. I believe the "Piper Almen" blog to be a spammer's subterfuge, set up for the sole purpose of raising the Google standing (PageRank) of the purveyors of power supplies and acne cures
whose links appear on the blog.

In order to fool automated spam-blocking software, the blog also contains snippets of actual text from other sites (much like the email spam you've no doubt seen in your mailboxes).

It just so happens that one of those snippets was a reference to "how to derive a collectible artifact from variable media art." After January's symposium I set up a Google Alert (a periodic check of new Google results) for "variable media," and
sure enough I was also lured to the ersatz Piper Almen blog.

But hey, there's no such thing as bad publicity, right?

jon

"Jon Ippolito" <jippolito@umit.maine.edu> on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 10:29 AM -0500 wrote:
>Remember when Kurt Bollacker predicted at last January's Berkeley symposium that the pornography industry would drive digital preservation?
>
>Well, I ran across the following citation of our work, preserved effortlessly in the digital flotsam of some spammer's auto-generated (or is that auto-degenerated) blog:
>
>"it sa nice space but power outlets were in conspicuous short supply i was lucky problem as how to derive a collectible artifact from variable media art ."
>http://piperalmen.beginlog.nl/2007/02/19/newton-power-supply/
>
>Move over, LOCKSS.org--make way for Lots Of Spam Keeps Stuff Safe!
>
>jon
>

Infoworld interview with Peter Suber

2007-02-18T16:30:00.000-08:00

(Posted to this blog on 2/18/07)

Trebor Scholz alerted me to this audio interview with Open Access maven Peter Suber, which touches on both recognition metrics and the Interarchive agenda:

http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2006/08/18.html

I was especially interested to learn that Connotea (Nature's science-tagging system) can work hand-in-glove with ePrint (the most popular open access repository software). These sorts of metadata compatibilities make the holy grail of searching
across "dark archives" seem closer to our grasp.

jon

Self-Archiving means twice the citations

2006-11-25T17:04:00.000-08:00

(Posted to this blog on 11/25/06)

Stevan Harnad of the Open Access Citation Index Working Group reports that self-archived astrophysics articles are cited twice as open as those not archived by their authors--jon.

>>>In astrophysics, Kurtz found that articles that were
self-archived by their authors in Arxiv were downloaded and cited
twice as much as those that were not. He traced this enhanced citation
impact to two factors: (1) Early Access (EA): The self-archived
preprint was accessible earlier than the publisher's version (which
is accessible to all research-active astrophysicists as soon as
it is published, thanks to Kurtz's ADS system). (Hajjem, however,
found that in other fields, which self-archive only published
postprints and do have accessibility/affordability problems with
the publisher's version, self-archived articles still have enhanced
citation impact.) Kurtz's second factor was: (2) Quality Bias (QB),
a selective tendency for higher quality articles to be preferentially
self-archived by their authors, as inferred from the fact that the
proportion of self-archived articles turns out to be higher among
the more highly cited articles....

Henneken, E. A., Kurtz, M. J., Eichhorn, G., Accomazzi, A., Grant,
C., Thompson, D., and Murray, S. S. (2006) Effect of E-printing
on Citation Rates in Astronomy and Physics. Journal of Electronic
Publishing, Vol. 9, No. 2
http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0604061

Henneken, E. A., Kurtz, M. J., Warner, S., Ginsparg, P., Eichhorn, G.,
Accomazzi, A., Grant, C. S., Thompson, D., Bohlen, E. and Murray, S.
S. (2006) E-prints and Journal Articles in Astronomy: a Productive
Co-existence (submitted to Learned Publishing)
http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0609126

Kurtz, M. J., Eichhorn, G., Accomazzi, A., Grant, C. S., Demleitner,
M., Murray, S. S. (2005) The Effect of Use and Access on Citations.
Information Processing and Management, 41 (6): 1395-1402
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~kurtz/kurtz-effect.pdf

Google unveils code search

2006-10-05T16:37:00.000-07:00

Google just launched a page that supports source code searching:

http://www.google.com/codesearch/advanced_code_search

I'm curious whether this development offers new possibilities for a distributed publication paradigm. It won't spider XML, but you might be able to create comparable structured content as a JavaScript object (such as JSAN).

What I can't tell yet is whether Google Code Search will spider linked or embedded JavaScript or only scripts added to code repositories like CVS and Subversion.

jon

Popup Politicians

2006-07-23T11:57:00.000-07:00

"Popup Politicians" is an interesting angle on distributed publication launched earlier this week. If you add the tags below to politicians referenced on your Web page, a bubble will appear with useful links to their voting records etc.

While the information does come from a centralized source--Congresspedia, for example--this method allows access to that information to be distributed across individual Web pages.

jon

From the site:

Popup Politicians is an AJAX-based widget that adds mini-profiles with links of Members of Congress to your page that appear when you mouseover the link.

This prototype consists of a callable remote API for getting info about politicians, and a tag-popup script which uses that API. To use it, you tag politicians on the page, using this format:

<a href="http://sunlightlabs.com/tag/Sen.+Edward+M.+Kennedy" rel="tag">Sen. Edward M. Kennedy</a>

(this format should be consistent with technorati and other tag-scrapers on the web). Next, you add the script file, like this:
...
<script src="http://sunlightlabs.com/popuppoliticians/sunlightpopups.js"></script>
</head>
<html>
...

When the script runs, it finds all the tags that look like the above, and adds a popup.

Primitive distributed publication via a Google hack

2006-04-17T11:10:00.000-07:00

I've done some simple experiments to see if we could hijack Google as a rich link harvester for Interarchive. As reported earlier on this list, I was disappointed to find that Google's API doesn't really enable more structure to search queries than the Advanced Search option. So, inspired by a suggestion of former student Chris Vaughan, I concocted a simple test to see what could be accomplished using just the "allinanchor" option, which inspects text inside anchor tags on Web pages.

The idea is to slip rich link data inside anchor tags using a format that Google can see but Web browsers can't: a hidden span tag. I modified several Web pages that I knew Google spidered more or less regularly, changing links like this:

The <a href="ume_vote">site</a>includes election information....

into links like this:

The <a href="ume_vote"><span style="display: none">dp_politics dp_network dp_community</span></a> includes election information....

I had to wait a week or so for GoogleBot to spider these new pages, but the results are promising:When I searched for these hidden metadata tags, Google returned not the linking page, but the pages that it linked to. For example, in the Still Water home page I hid "dp_network" tags in links to Eyebeam and U-Me Vote; these two latter pages showed up in a Google search for "allinanchor:dp_network". (See figure 1).When I used this same technique to embed a tag called "dp_community", the site I linked to appeared but also the page that did the linking. (See figure 2.) At first I was confused by this, because although GoogleBot seems to harvest hidden text, PageRank tends to omit it from search returns--because it can be used by spammers to direct people searching for "car" to porn sites, etc.

Then I did a search on "dp_community" by itself and found that it is actually a name used in cleartext on other Web sites! (See figure 3.) So that's why I think Google returned it differently from "dp_network." (I'll have to come up with a more idiosyncratic prefix than dp_ ;)

To conclude, this sneaky way of tagging external sites via rich links seems to work as a discovery tool ("Show me a list of Web pages related to the concept of *network*.")

Unfortunately, I haven't figured out a way to return anything better using this technique than a list of sites sorted by Google PageRank. To do statistics on this sort of linking, and thus to generate anything resembling an influence cloud, may require some kind of registration in a database. More about this in a future post.

jon

Smithsonian sells out film collection?

2006-04-11T14:06:00.000-07:00

In 1991 Bill Gates' Corbis promised the Guggenheim a spiffy collection management database if we only gave them the exclusive rights to our images. Thank god I was able to sink that idea.

At about the same time, MOMA tried to get my dad and the other founders of New York's artist-run Tanager Gallery to donate their archives. The Tanager artists chose the Smithsonian instead, hoping for broader public access. Judging from the
following article, that may have been a mistake.

Wave cash and shiny tech in front of a nonprofit, and watch them drop their values and hold out their hands. If power corrupts, I suspect centralized power corrupts absolutely.

--jon

April 1, 2006
Smithsonian Agreement Angers Filmmakers
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F5071FFB39540C728CDDAD0894DE404482
By EDWARD WYATT

Some of the biggest names in documentary filmmaking have denounced a recent agreement between the Smithsonian Institution and Showtime Networks Inc. that they say restricts makers of films and television shows using Smithsonian materials from
offering their work to public television or other non-Showtime broadcast outlets.

Ken Burns, whose documentaries "The Civil War" and "Baseball" have become classics of the form, said in an interview yesterday that he believed that such an arrangement would have prohibited him from making some of his recent works, like the musical
history "Jazz," available to public television because they relied heavily on Smithsonian collections and curators.

"I find this deal terrifying," Mr. Burns said in a telephone interview from San Francisco, where he is filming interviews for a documentary on the history of the national parks. "It feels like the Smithsonian has essentially optioned America's attic
to one company, and to have access to that attic, we would have to be signed off with, and perhaps co-opted by, that entity."

On March 9, Showtime and the Smithsonian announced the creation of Smithsonian Networks, a joint venture to develop television programming. Under the agreement, the joint venture has the right of first refusal to commercial documentaries that rely
heavily on Smithsonian collections or staff. Those works would first have to be offered to Smithsonian on Demand, the cable channel that is expected to be the venture's first programming service.

A Smithsonian official who is managing the institution's content and production assistance for the venture said yesterday that while the new arrangement did limit the ability of commercial filmmakers to sell some projects elsewhere, it ultimately
would affect a small number of the works that draw on the museum's resources.

"It's not our obligation to help independent filmmakers sell their wares to commercial broadcast and cable networks," said the official, Jeanny Kim, a vice president for media services for Smithsonian Business Ventures.

"What it boiled down to is that we don't have the financial resources, the expertise or the production capabilities," she added, to continue to provide extensive access to materials but not to reap any financial benefit from the result.

She said films that made incidental use of a single interview with a staff member or a few minutes of pictures of elements of the Smithsonian collections would be allowed.

The Showtime venture, under which the Smithsonian would earn payments from cable operators that offered the on-demand service to subscribers, comes as the Smithsonian has suffered financial problems. At a Congressional hearing on Wednesday, a
Smithsonian official said some necessary repairs to Smithsonian buildings could not be made because of lack of financing. That led to a suggestion by Representative James P. Moran, Democrat of Virginia, to suggest that the institution should charge
admission, a proposal that its board of regents has rejected repeatedly.

The Showtime agreement began attracting widespread attention this week as filmmakers said they had been told that some of their projects might fall under the agreement. Two Smithsonian curators, who were granted anonymity because they feared for
their jobs if they spoke publicly about the Showtime venture, said in interviews yesterday that they could not be certain what kind of projects would be subject to the restrictions because details of the contract with Showtime had been shared with
few employees below the executive level.

Linda St. Thomas, a Smithsonian spokeswoman, said the details of the contract with Showtime were confidential and would not be released publicly. She said the outlines of the agreement had been left deliberately vague to allow the Smithsonian to
consider "on a case-by-case basis" whether a proposed project competes with its new television venture or not. A Showtime executive, Tom Hayden, said the deal was not intended to be exclusionary but was intended to provide filmmakers with an
attractive platform for their work.

One well-known filmmaker, Laurie Kahn-Leavitt, said she had been told recently by a Smithsonian staff member that her last film, "Tupperware!," a history of the creation and marketing of the venerable food-storage containers, would have fallen under
the arrangement, because much of the history of Tupperware is housed at the Smithsonian. The documentary, which won a Peabody Award in 2004, was broadcast on "American Experience," the PBS show produced by WGBH, the Boston public television station.

"This is a public archive," Ms. Kahn-Leavitt said. "This should not be offered on an exclusive basis to anyone, and it's not good enough that they can decide on a case-by-case basis what they will and won't approve."

Margaret Drain, a vice president for national programs at WGBH, said she feared that public television programs like "Nova" and "American Experience" would suffer greatly because of the new restrictions.

"These are programs that regularly rely on the collections of the Smithsonian Institution," she said. "If access is restricted, we are really going to be in trouble."

She added: "I'm outraged that a public institution would do a semiexclusive deal with a commercial broadcaster."

Re: [interarchive] Government v. Google?

2006-01-26T09:50:00.000-08:00

Christiane Paul on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 at 9:16 AM -0500 wrote:
>They are gathering enormous amounts of data but don't have a system in place that is capable of processing this information (which doesn't mean that this system won't be developed sooner or later). My guess would be that "an archive of all Internet
>activities" would be a similar data dumpster.
Christiane's argument is supported by a story in today's NYTimes that claims privacy isn't the reason Google resisted the Justice Department's demand after all:

'In its only extended discussion of its reasons for fighting the subpoena, a Google lawyer told the Justice Department in October that complying would be bad for business. "Google objects," the lawyer, Ashok Ramani, wrote, "because to comply with
the request could endanger its crown-jewel trade secrets." '

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/26/technology/26privacy.html

It would seem that the Bush administration was simply planning a statistical analysis on search data to disprove the effectiveness of anti-porn filters. (They could have saved a lot of trouble and just asked my 8-year-old.) Apparently Internet
companies almost never wear the sort of white hat netizens have been attributing to Google:

'According to a 2004 decision of a federal court in Virginia, America Online alone responds to about 1,000 criminal warrants each month. AOL, Google and other Internet companies also receive subpoenas in divorce, libel, fraud and other types of
civil cases. With limited exceptions, they are required by law to comply....Google tried to notify users so they could object in court before the company turned over information about them. But the law forbids such notification in some criminal
cases.'

Still, I don't regret the calls I made to my senators yesterday. Even if the Google case isn't quite what it seems, it has made the average citizen a bit more conscious of how the Internet turns her thought patterns into someone else's
assets--whether that someone works for the government or Google.

jon

Re: [interarchive] Government v. Google?

2006-01-23T18:25:00.000-08:00

Actually, my point was less about the need to support Google than the fact that their central database made them vulnerable, whereas a distributed system (such as a peer-to-peer publishing network) is harder to mine for private info, whether by
spammers or the government. Consider for example the Electronic Frontier Foundation's reaction:

'While EFF applauds Google for defending its users' privacy in this case, the current controversy only highlights the broader privacy problem: Google logs all of the searches you make, and most if not all of those queries are personally identifiable
via cookies, IP addresses, and Google account information.

'"The only way Google can reasonably protect the privacy of its users from such legal demands now and in the future is to stop collecting so much information about its users, delete information that it does collect as soon as possible, and take real
steps to minimize how much of the information it collects is traceable back to individual Google users," said EFF Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston. "If Google continues to gather and keep so much information about its users, government and private
attorneys will continue to try and get it."

'Importantly, users can also take steps to protect their privacy from Google, the government, and others, by using anonymizing technologies such as Tor when surfing the web. Tor helps hide your IP address from Google so that even if the lawyers come
knocking, Google cannot identify you by your searches.'

http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_01.php

More about Tor:
http://tor.eff.org/

That said, Google does deserve support for this (somewhat uncharacteristic) concern about privacy, especially given that Yahoo (and probably MSN) caved and didn't tell anyone:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1561793/posts

One unscientific poll suggests overwhelming support for Google's stance among the public:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10947488/

You can go ahead and contribute to that poll, or better yet, if you're American, contact your local senators and representatives to affirm your support for the basic freedoms that the Bush administration is trying to undermine. I'm calling mine
tomorrow.

jon

interarchive@lists.berkeley.edu on Monday, January 23, 2006 at 4:35 PM -0500 wrote:
>
>Genco Gulan wrote:
>>
>> Dear Jon, Is there a way to support google and our rights?

Government v. Google: an argument for distributed publication?

2006-01-23T09:12:00.000-08:00

Stuart Udell's preface to recent news about the US demand that Google turn over its search records speaks to the political risks of centralized databases--jon

----- Original Message -----
Friday, January 20, 2006 7:20:43 AM
Subject: <nettime> US gov demands Google search records

[The lesson here is simple. Anytime someone builds a database, they
are creating an object which is coveted by criminals/government. It
seems to me the best thing to do, from a developer/administrator
standpoint, is to avoid making them - and from a user's perspective,
avoid using big, popular, juicy databases... if you have to, then try
and be a dog named Joe who lives in Estonia at the time. Stand by
for a resurgence in interest in chained proxies. Waiting for an HTTP
proxy in some popular P2P clients, with crypto. See also:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4630694.stm - Stu]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/19/feds_subpoena_google_search_records/

US gov demands Google search records
Fishing expedition

By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Published Thursday 19th January 2006 19:17 GMT

The US Department of Justice has taken Google to court, demanding it
hand over all searches made in a one week period. It's a fishing
expedition, unconnected with any ongoing criminal prosecution. The
DOJ wants the information to back up its attempt to revive an anti-
pornography law derailed by the Supreme Court two years ago....

---
Stuart Udall
http://www.cyberdelix.net/

Technical challenges for XML harvesting

2005-11-15T14:44:00.000-08:00

Some students and I have been experimenting with Google as an "out of the box" citation harvester while waiting for the Interarchive list to get set up. Here's what our research suggests so far:

* Google doesn't seem to pay much attention to code inside Web pages, even <meta> tags. I'm speculating that the reason Google and Yahoo can find Creative Commons XML buried in Web pages is due to a private agreement between CC and those search
engines. In the future, we should contact CC to confirm this and find out how hard that road is.

* The much-vaunted Google Search API doesn't offer much more than the normal advanced search options.

* The one hack that remains promising is to slip metadata into a link's anchor text--not the tag attributes, but the text you click on. I'm going to design a snippet of test code for this possible solution and ask folks with Web pages spidered by
Google to add such snippets to their pages (at least temporarily). That should give us a quick proof of concept to assess.

jon

How to join the interarchive email discussion list

2005-10-28T12:02:00.000-07:00

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To leave the list, follow the instructions above, but change "subscribe" to "unsubscribe".

Email-based blog posting enabled for Interarchive blog

2005-10-27T09:13:00.000-07:00

This blog entry for the Interarchive blog was sent from my email account. To find out how to publish blog entries from your own email accounts, just contact me.

jon

Welcome to the Interarchive blog

2005-10-18T11:19:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Interarchive! This blog reports news from the Interarchive working group, a team of new media artists, curators, publishers, and scholars developing a new paradigm for distributed publishing.

The Interarchive working group emerged from the 2005 REFRESH! conference held at the Banff New Media Institute and co-sponsored by Leonardo and the Database of Virtual Art.

jon