I built a photo gallery website a couple of years ago called webotography.com, and that was fine as a brief experiment. I might even revive it some time, but the thing it, the web marches on pretty fast. My webotography site used some methods for displaying photos that now seem kind of quaint, to put it kindly. Basically, the site is outdated and outmoded, especially since the advent of HTML5 and the new browser versions that support it.
So I just built another photography site called jackatwill.com/photoblog. There you can find several hundred photos I took during a trip across Colorado and southern Utah this past August. I also published most of these photos on Facebook and Flickr but you know, I'm not really thrilled by the way my display choices are so limited there. It's great that we have all these "free" social media spaces where we can publish and share things, but we should never forget that we don't own those spaces. I'll use them, but I'll continue to build my own websites as part of my core enterprise as a developer. Time-consuming, yes, but fun!
I hope you enjoy both the clean design, and the photo content on the new site.
Categories: Metadata • Personal • Photography • Websites
Too busy making projects lately to keep updating the blog. Let me quickly mention pbcoreresources.org, a site to support ground-up development of the PBCore metadata standard.
PBCore is for exchanging information about audio/video objects, and in the online realm, the a/v objects themselves. A PBCore record is an XML document based on the PBCore schema, describing the intellectual, administrative, and technical details of a media object. Like an RSS/podcast feed, only in much (much...) greater detail.
If you want everything official and technical about PBCore, pbcore.org is a great starting point, including links to all the authoritative PBCore sites and cool projects, including pbcoreresources.org.
Categories: Media • Metadata • Technology • Websites