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Posted: **Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:25 pm**

As some of you know, I'm in the process of putting together a website that will serve as an online library of nineteenth-century restoration texts and documents (LDS documents as well as contemporaneous "anti-LDS" documents).

I'd like the library to be Zotero accessible. That means, I think, that I need to encode some metadata.

I read the developer articles at Zotero.com, but it was all Greek to me (except that I actually can read Greek). It was more like Arabic.

At any rate, can some of you web techies point me to information about:
(1) what XML tags I could use to denote things like "author," "publisher," "date," etc?
(If that sentence doesn't make sense, then you'll quickly realize why I'm having to ask.)
(2) where I would place the metadata? Within the <head></head> tag?
(3) the best language/system for encoding the metadata? (I've heard of at least two ways to do it, and they might be interrelated--I dunno.)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Mods: can you leave this here in Terrestrial for a couple days?

Chris

Posted: **Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:22 am**

http://www.geekstogo.com

Posted: **Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:51 am**

Imwashingmypirate wrote:http://www.geekstogo.com

I'll check it out, Pirate. One of the reasons I participate on MB's is that I'm a proponent of community networking leading to quantifiable personal benefit. Thus, I'd rather garner help from folks I "know" rather than from folks I don't know. This is the model of mutually-beneficial community interaction I'd like to participate in.

But, I will see what help I can garner from the site you've linked to.

Thanks.

CKS

Posted: **Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:00 am**

cksalmon wrote:As some of you know, I'm in the process of putting together a website that will serve as an online library of nineteenth-century restoration texts and documents (LDS documents as well as contemporaneous "anti-LDS" documents).

I'd like the library to be Zotero accessible. That means, I think, that I need to encode some metadata.

I read the developer articles at Zotero.com, but it was all Greek to me (except that I actually can read Greek). It was more like Arabic.

At any rate, can some of you web techies point me to information about:
(1) what XML tags I could use to denote things like "author," "publisher," "date," etc?
(If that sentence doesn't make sense, then you'll quickly realize why I'm having to ask.)
(2) where I would place the metadata? Within the <head></head> tag?
(3) the best language/system for encoding the metadata? (I've heard of at least two ways to do it, and they might be interrelated--I dunno.)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Mods: can you leave this here in Terrestrial for a couple days?

Chris

Hey, Chris, PM me. I think I can walk you through it. Is there a way I can access the code for the site you are in the process of building?

Posted: **Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:13 am**

At what point would you need to insert the tags?

Gawd, I wish shady acres had a white board.

Posted: **Thu Jan 31, 2008 2:43 pm**

Mercury wrote:At what point would you need to insert the tags?

Gawd, I wish shady acres had a white board.

I think all of us programming nerds need to meet in one place. We would talk for hours, but bore anyone else who was listening to death. LOL

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