Bookmarklets
Jon Udell posted an interesting piece on a bookmarklet for quotes awhile back. Here’s an example quote from the article rendered with the bookmarklet:
<blockquote cite="XML.com: Interactive Microcontent [Oct. 08, 2003]">
Most people, quite rightly, would like to see more concrete benefits. If
you're going to go to the trouble of creating structured microcontent, you'd
like to be able to interact with it in immediate and tangible ways, and
you'd like to empower others to do that too. [<a
href="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/10/08/udell.html">XML.com: Interactive
Microcontent [Oct. 08, 2003]</a>] </blockquote>
I got to thinking as I’m doing some online research that I really want a turbo-charged version of this:
I wonder how easy it would be to have a bookmarklet where I could just highlight a chunk of text, and it was converted to xml and stored (in, say, an XML DB), along with minimal metadata record (url, date accessed, title, etc.)? Internally, then, the quote might be stored like so…
<note>
<title>XML.com: Interactive Microcontent</title>
<datePublished>2003-10-08</datePublished>
<dateAccessed>2004-03-05</dateAccessed>
<location>http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/10/08/udell.html</location>
<content>
<blockquote>
Most people, quite rightly, would like to see more concrete benefits. If
you're going to go to the trouble of creating structured microcontent, you'd
like to be able to interact with it in immediate and tangible ways, and
you'd like to empower others to do that too.
</blockquote>
</content>
</note>
