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Keep up the good work – it’s great to see this stuff bubble up into the wild.

Back in a previous life at Factiva, we had a well-thumbed copy of all these codes and their values. It would be incredibly useful if you could publish this electronically and make it freely available. May even kick of a trend to standardize some of this stuff!

Nice work Spiderman!! Steve just put a shout out on the Alacra Blog!

Great stuff. It’s a pity that info is not in the RSS feeds…

MattN, friendly neighborhood blog guy October 29, 2007 · 10:16 am

Hey Jacob —

Thanks for mentioning Andrew Revkin’s work. For fans of Open who are concerned about such things as Warming, Oceans, Environment, and Ice, you be happy to know that Andrew’s Dot Earth (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com) blog just launched last week. Well worth checking out…

Why not a standard way of using metadata (Dublin Core anyone ?) ?

If I recall correctly, the Dublin Core is a set of metadata that describes the attributes of the resource in bibliographical ways (eg, publisher, language, rights, subject). There is some overlap, but our metadata is more for breaking down the summarized content of the story.

Right, but some of your DC metadata could be easily read by standard tools*. Use standard where applicable, create your specific tags if needed.

Nice move anyway…

* See //www.zotero.org/ for example

What is the worst pun in all of computer science?

Good text!, guy

How about adding Open Calais metadata tags to your tagging offering. This will enabl more interoperability and mashups based on NY times content.
The Open Calais provides metadata URI – i.e. once the article is tagged – there is a URI that enables to fetch the metadata associated with this article anytime.

Ofer

Is the sample table above the only table or do you have a metadata schema, if so is it published?

OpenCalais is great, It is used in Klezio : //www.klezio.com
News are automatically classified and news metadata extracted ; Contextual information is fetched from apps such as wikipedia, flickr, twitter or delicious.
Hope it’ll serve.
Regards,

Klezio Team

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