{"id":222,"date":"2008-01-08T13:03:05","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T12:03:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:05:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:05:29","slug":"the-progress-of-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/2008\/01\/08\/the-progress-of-content\/","title":{"rendered":"The progress of content"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m just helping Brian Kelly author a paper on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archimuse.com\/mw2008\/abstracts\/prg_335001720.html\">Openness in Museums<\/a> for the Museums and the Web conference later in the year. It just stuck me that the movement of content around the web has followed \/ is following a pattern a little bit like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Phase I:<\/b> content held as HTML within sites. Little or no interoperability. Content mostly viewed &#8220;on site&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Phase II:<\/b> content held as XHTML within sites. Better markup means better SEO. Better SEO means that content starts to find its way out to the wider web<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Phase III:<\/b> content held as XHTML but also key bits of content (news in particular) syndicated out via RSS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Phase IV:<\/b> content held as XHTML\/XML; key segments syndicated via RSS (and some RDF) but additional movement of data via some &#8220;islands&#8221; of additional functionality such as API&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Phase V:<\/b> content held as XHTML\/XML, some\/all syndicated via RSS, RDF, API&#8217;s but additional standards (oAuth, OpenSearch, Microformats etc) begin to ensure further interoperability between disparate sites<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit of a brain dump and please feel free to take it apart in the comments, but I thought I&#8217;d share it with you \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d say most big commercial sites are firmly at Phase III but moving towards IV; museums are mostly at Phase II but moving (slowly!) towards Phase III&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just helping Brian Kelly author a paper on Openness in Museums for the Museums and the Web conference later in the year. It just stuck me that the movement of content around the web has followed \/ is following a pattern a little bit like this: Phase I: content held as HTML within sites. &#8230; <a title=\"The progress of content\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/2008\/01\/08\/the-progress-of-content\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The progress of content\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}