Metadata Irony
This page contains a list of references to other pages which I hereby award a “Metadata Irony” award; these are pages that describe, evangalize or for some other reason really should have computational metadata. But don’t.
Method
The references on this page are automatically generated using the Kcite (http://knowledgeblog.org/kcite-plugin) tool; this retrieves metadata from Greycite (http://knowledgeblog.org/greycite), which in turns mines the metadata from the contents of the URL. Greycite looks for a wide variety of metadata sources, including OGP (http://ogp.me/), Google Scholar tags (http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html) and CoINS (http://ocoins.info/). None of these pages have metadata in them, so are happy inclusions on the metadata irony pages.
Greycite periodically rescans, and kcite updates the bibliographic metadata, so this page may change over time. Hopefully, over time more and more links on this page will become well formed. I will happily move any page here that gets better to our (http://www.russet.org.uk/blog/metadata-awards).
It’s also possible that Greycite is missing things, and that the metadata is there. Please feel to let me know if this is the case and will be move the link and fix Greycite!
The links
Semantic Web Articles
The semantic web community seems particular prone to not using any metadata on their web pages. We document examples here.
International Semantic Web Conference
The International Semantic Web Conference is, as the name suggests about the semantic web. Their web pages have no bibliographic metadata for:
- 2012 (http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/)
- 2011 (http://iswc2011.semanticweb.org/)
- 2010 (http://iswc2010.semanticweb.org/)
- The 2009 website is broken. (http://iswc2009.semanticweb.org/)
- 2008 (http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/)
- The 2007 website is broken. (http://iswc2007.semanticweb.org/)
- The 2006 website is broken. (http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org/)
- 2005 (http://iswc2005.semanticweb.org/)
- 2004 (http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org/)
- 2003 (http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org/)
- 2002 (http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Main_Page)
The Semantic University
The semantic university is a notable effort to describe semantic web technologies and how to use them. There are many articles on semantic web, linked data and so on. But no metadata.
- (http://www.cambridgesemantics.com/semantic-university/what-is-linked-data)
- (http://www.cambridgesemantics.com/semantic-university/identifier-design-patterns)
Sepublica
A workshop about semantic publishing which doesn’t (http://sepublica.mywikipaper.org/drupal/).
Metadata Standards and Organisation
Metadata standards are a growth industry in biology, and describe how to represent metadata.
MIAPE
MIAPE is a data standard describing how other people should provide standard, minimal information about their proteomics experiment (http://psidev.info/miape/).
OBI
OBI, an ontology of biomedical investigations (http://obi-ontology.org/page/Main_Page). But not bibliographic metadata.
Discovery
“Toward a thriving metadata ecosystem” (except on web pages) (http://www.discovery.ac.uk).
Misc
Okay, so I am an ontologist (http://ontogenesis.knowledgeblog.org/66) and I am ashamed of having a “misc” category (http://ontogenesis.knowledgeblog.org/829), but what are you to do?
Creative Commons
Very creative, not very descriptive (http://creativecommons.org/).
Digitial Science
Tag line at the time of writing: “software that understand science” (http://www.digital-science.com/). With a web page not understandable by software.
W3C
What can I say?
ORCID
Researcher Metadata. For them, not for the web.
Apologies, to Brian — his was the first ORCID in Google.
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