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
Question for Web Techies -- Off-topic, but important (to me)
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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
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Re: Question for Web Techies -- Off-topic, but important (to
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?
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