Micro (Content) Genres
Micro (content) Genres (the very beginning of a very early draft)
Design and conceptualization of information and resources for the web, as well as the language use with them –all of these have all been registering a gradual “shrinking” process. Instead of an enveloping user “experience,” replete with pervasive Website “metaphors” and “stickiness” (think of Amazon.com), attention has focused on distributed Web services, linking technologies, and the syndication of atomic items, whether ads (Google’s AdSense) or Blog postings. What is perhaps most striking when looking through Web design books from only three or four years ago (e.g. “Information Architecture”) is the scale of the text, graphics and whitespace on the exemplary websites they feature.
Not surprisingly, a corresponding change has occurred in terms of the categories, classifications of content types, and the means employed in putting them to use. The application, for example, of ways of organizing documents (books, magazines) through means of surrogates (library catalogue records) was translated into notion of a “metadata record” describing a corresponding online “resource.” This earlier gave rise to the GILS standard for creating such catalogue records (with xx fields or elements), which later gave way to Dublin Core (15 fields), and is now giving way to far simpler approaches (e.g. RSS with x fields; ).
just found that.
Comment by martin lindner — February 9, 2006 @ 12:08 am