ideas for promoting and selling art, music, and writing, using long tail economics, and the new internet business models available for artists, writers and musicians
Schema.org/VisualArtwork - A series of 3 posts: post 2 of 3.
What is VRA Core?
VRA Core is a data standard for the description of works of visual culture as well as the images that document them. Works of visual cul...
This is a short post about how to use schema.org/QuantitativeValue in a way which is machine-readable, human-readable, accessible, and typographically correct.
Schema.org/QuantitativeValue is used to express the heigh...
In a recent post I gave some examples of how to use Getty AAT Linked Open Data with the new schema.org/VisualArtwork.
After some advice from Dan Brickley and Richard Wallis in a comment thread on Github about the diff...
Schema.org/VisualArtwork - A series of 3 posts: post 3 of 3.
Linked Open Data
In this post I want to get a bit more technical and introduce the concept of Linked Open Data.
Linked Open Data is a way of publishing s...
It was back in April 2013 when I first started thinking about how schema.org could be used to semantically mark up artwork on web pages, and a month later when I proposed my initial solution on the W3CPublic Vocabs mai...
If you follow my Twitter feed, you might have seen this tweet:
Here's that same tweet embedded (you can click the link in the Tweet to see the tweet as it appeared to my followers):
My next Art Email Newsletter will ...
UPDATE:
Schema.org/VisualArtwork has now been officially accepted. Details are available in a series of 3 posts:
Schema.org’s VisualArtwork launched
Mapping existing data stored in VRA Core 4 format to schema.org’s V...
I’ve written quite a lot on this blog about metadata in your HTML—particularly
RDFa and Schema.org—so I thought I’d turn my attention to another
sort of metadata that is useful for artists: image metadat...
Earlier today Matt Cutts of Google tweeted about a new feature on Google’s Image Search:
It’s a new tool that allows users to filter their image search results by Usage Rights, allowing them to only find images that h...
To start off 2014 I’ve launched a brand new version of my website. As you can see, this blog, which used to be on its own subdomain of new-media.lazaruscorporation.co.uk, has moved to its new home of www.lazaruscorpora...
A bit more technical than my usual posts here, but…
I upgraded to Kubuntu 13.10 on Thursday evening on my desktop machine at home, and one of the packages included in the update was Apache (Apache 2.2 upgraded to Apach...
UPDATE:
Schema.org/VisualArtwork has now been officially accepted. Details are available in a series of 3 posts:
Schema.org’s VisualArtwork launched
Mapping existing data stored in VRA Core 4 format to schema.org’s V...
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...
UPDATE:
Schema.org/VisualArtwork has now been officially accepted. Details are available in a series of 3 posts:
Schema.org’s VisualArtwork launched
Mapping existing data stored in VRA Core 4 format to schema.org’s V...
UPDATE:
Schema.org/VisualArtwork has now been officially accepted. Details are available in a series of 3 posts:
Schema.org’s VisualArtwork launched
Mapping existing data stored in VRA Core 4 format to schema.org’s V...
UPDATE:
Schema.org/VisualArtwork has now been officially accepted. Details are available in a series of 3 posts:
Schema.org’s VisualArtwork launched
Mapping existing data stored in VRA Core 4 format to schema.org’s V...
Here’s a short illustrated story for you:
Steve Lieber is a comic book artist. He drew Underground, a graphic novel (written by Jeff Parker, drawn by Steve, and colored by Ron Chan). The story follows Park Ranger Wesle...
Ariana Osborne is credited as “Chief Mechanic” on the FreakAngels(1) web-comic/graphic novel series (written by Warren Ellis, artwork by Paul Duffield). In practice it seems that this means she’s the web designer/maint...
As I’ve been working on The Book of the Erinyes I’ve been trying to work out who it’s likely to appeal to.
The problem is that it doesn’t fit comfortably in any one area. It sits between art and craft, between bookbind...
There’s an interesting discussion going on at TechDirt about the evolving business model being used by musician Amanda Palmer.
One commenter, Kevin Stapp, sums it up perfectly:
The more I hear about ‘new business mode...
Software costs money. Actually that’s not true – there’s plenty of free software out there for artists, and the ones detailed below are just as good as the expensive versions.
Browsers
Web browsers are usually free (or...
It all started when Amazon removed the “Sales Rank” from all gay & lesbian books (apart from homophobic books which now appear at the top of an Amazon search for “Homosexuality”). The story is covered in deta...
Twitter is the rising star of social media at the moment, and is a surprisingly good tool for artists.
From US President Barack Obama’s use of Twitter throughout his election campaign to the UK comedian Stephen Fry’s h...
I thought it was about time to give you all an update on the free open-source Artists Website Software I’m currently working on.
I’ve got a very basic skeleton completed so far, but the alpha version is still some way ...
In my last post I talked about the Artists Website Software I was planning.
It’s been a busy few months (both with my day-job and with moving house) but I have made some progress, and I hope to have an alpha version av...
My website has grown organically over 12 years, but the code is looking very messy and unmanageable, so I’m thinking of recoding it from scratch (while adding a lot of improvements).
I decided that I may as well make a...
Following up from my “Microsites for Arts Projects” post in August, I noticed that Maki at DoshDosh had (quite separately) published a similar article in September entitled “How ‘Mini-Funnel’ Websites Can Help You Incr...
I’m going to concentrate on HTML email design here rather than best practice for sending your emails or building your email list.
Suffice to say that you should never email someone without their clear and express permi...
Another follow-up post, this time following up my post on Self-publishing your art books on Lulu.
From http://www.lulu.com/content/2709735:
“Dear Lulu” is a test book researched and produced by graphic design students...
