Comments on: Semantic markup – a public sector debut http://evolvingnewsroom.co.nz/semantic-markup-a-public-sector-debut Journalism links and observations from Julie Starr Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Julie Starr http://evolvingnewsroom.co.nz/semantic-markup-a-public-sector-debut/comment-page-1#comment-521 Julie Starr Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:55:35 +0000 http://evolvingnewsroom.co.nz/2008/03/25/semantic-markup-a-public-sector-debut/#comment-521 Thanks for the update Jason. As for whether the news business will keep up... the good news is the Guardian is leading the way by <a href="http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/03/the-guardian-op.html" rel="nofollow">opening up its API</a>. The bad news is the Guardian is one in a million and very few news organisations are being as far-sighted or adventurous. Thanks for the update Jason.

As for whether the news business will keep up… the good news is the Guardian is leading the way by opening up its API. The bad news is the Guardian is one in a million and very few news organisations are being as far-sighted or adventurous.

]]> By: Jason Ryan http://evolvingnewsroom.co.nz/semantic-markup-a-public-sector-debut/comment-page-1#comment-520 Jason Ryan Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:49:48 +0000 http://evolvingnewsroom.co.nz/2008/03/25/semantic-markup-a-public-sector-debut/#comment-520 You have pretty much nailed it on the head Julie. One other application of this sort of markup is that it makes it easy for other data users to find and reuse the data in mashups or whatever other sorts of applications they may care to dream up (working on the proviso that it is difficult to predict what sort of applications may emerge in the short and medium term). Unfortunately, Firefox 3 shipped without the microformat functionality I described. You can enable an add-on, <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4106" title="FF add-ons page" rel="nofollow">Operator</a>, which will do the same thing. Will the news business keep up? Not if you believe <a href="http://bit.ly/unthinkable" title="post on the future of newspapers" rel="nofollow">Clay Shirky</a>... You have pretty much nailed it on the head Julie. One other application of this sort of markup is that it makes it easy for other data users to find and reuse the data in mashups or whatever other sorts of applications they may care to dream up (working on the proviso that it is difficult to predict what sort of applications may emerge in the short and medium term).

Unfortunately, Firefox 3 shipped without the microformat functionality I described. You can enable an add-on, Operator, which will do the same thing.

Will the news business keep up? Not if you believe Clay Shirky…

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