Internet Alchemy

It’s been four years since the last instalment of this series. Over the past couple of months I have revised the BIO vocabulary and have incorporated many of the changes I’ve been discussing over the course of this series of posts. Now I am going to revisit some of the examples from my earlier posts and bring them up to date with the new vocabulary.

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Over the weekend I uploaded a preview of OpenVocab 2 for public testing and feedback. This is a complete rewrite and introduces a number of new features:

• Support for OpenID – all changes must be verified by logging in with OpenID (this should help with the spam problem)
• Atom feeds for changes (all changes and per term)
• Detailed views of each change
• Users can recommend terms for deletion and for promotion to a more stable status (I, as superuser, can delete terms)

The design is simpler and cleaner (I’m using Blueprint CSS) and just more pleasant to use. I do want a bit of colour there though. Last time I released OpenVocab I made a request for logos and received two fantastic ones within days. If you have another idea, please let me know in the comments or by email because I want to run a poll to select the logo for the site. My only condition is that the logo licensing must be compatible with the public domain ethic of OpenVocab. As a reminder, here are last time’s submissions:

Benjamin Nowack:

Darren Geraghty

I’ve moved this blog from iandavis.com/blog to blog.iandavis.com because I’m thinking about moving to a hosted blog system rather than self-run. I think I’ve put all the necessary redirects in but please let me know if you think I’ve missed something.

• Internet Explorer meets the Vary: header :: I Like Spam
  Microsoft Internet Explorer bug prevents the browser caching responses with anything but a mindlessly simple Vary: header.
  (tags: http caching ie vary)

• Google Code Blog: Hybrid Onboarding
  (tags: web api openid oauth authentication best-practice)

• Ito World: Visualising Transport Data for Data.gov.uk
  (tags: data.gov.uk opendata visualization traffic)

• Python Idioms and Efficiency Suggestions
  (tags: python idioms reference efficiency)