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This is my second draft of an idea of how to mark up artwork using Schema.org (the first draft is here). Your comments and criticisms would be gratefully received. It is intended to replace both http://schema.org/Painting and http://schema.org/Sculpture (and http://schema.org/Photograph when it is being used to describe photographs in an artistic context rather than photojournalism, [...]
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There has been a lot of news recently about the UK’s new “Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act” (AKA the “Instagram Act”) which allows the commercial use of ‘orphaned works’ under certain circumstances. Yes, the act is badly thought out, and as a visual artist who puts images of his work up on the web I’m [...]
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Update (May 7, 2013): I’ve produced a slightly updated 2nd draft of this idea, which can be found here. This is my first draft of an idea of how to mark up artwork using Schema.org. It is intended to replace both http://schema.org/Painting and http://schema.org/Sculpture (and http://schema.org/Photograph when it is being used to describe photographs in [...]
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Following up from last week’s post, I wanted to try to put some basic tutorials up for artists to show how to mark-up HTML5 to display a painting, using schema.org to provide some semantic structure. Given that there are strong differences of opinion over whether RDFa or Microdata is the best/correct way to add semantic [...]
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(Kicking this blog back into life to pursue a solution to a problem) The Dream Imagine a Google Image Search where a potential customer could search for contemporary artwork that is available for sale in a specific price range which is no larger than a specific size (the right size to fit on the wall [...]
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