Interoperability for the Discovery, Use, and Re-Use of Units of Scholarly Communication

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Interoperability for the Discovery, Use, and Re-Use of Units of Scholarly Communication
This is a useful, though quite technical, paper discussing how to reuse common resources - like images and videos - that appear on academic and educational web pages. The core of the proposal is a 'resource map' that basically identifies an HTML page (known as the 'splash page') and the resources (like images, videos, etc.) linked or embedded in that page. These resource maps resemble the tables I would use in Edu_RSS when trying to identify 'conversations' between bloggers (and if I could simply use such a map produced by someone else, it would save me a lot of processing). More...