On Promoting Interstitial Art
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,...
View ArticleAmanda Palmer on a Patronage-based model for music
…which I think can work equally well for the visual arts:
View ArticleMake something first, then worry about marketing
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...
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Piracy trumps obscurity again
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...
View ArticleSemantic HTML for artwork – can you help?
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...
View ArticleSemantic HTML5 with Schema.org for Paintings
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...
View ArticleAn idea for an alternative schema.org type for artwork
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...
View ArticleA short post about the ‘Instagram Act’
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...
View Article2nd draft: an idea for an alternative schema.org type for artwork
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...
View ArticleUpgrading from Apache 2.2 to Apache 2.4
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...
View ArticleNew website using RDFa
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...
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New Google Image Usage Rights
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...
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Image Metadata for Artists
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...
View ArticleVisualArtwork for Schema.org: Progress Report
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...
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Mailing List sign-up without leaving Twitter
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...
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Schema.org VisualArtwork goes live
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...
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Getty AAT Linked Open Data in schema.org VisualArtwork
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...
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More on Linked Open Data and Schema.org
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...
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Schema.org QuantitativeValue with accessibility and typography
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...
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Mapping VRA Core 4 to Schema.org VisualArtwork
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....
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