You can learn more about Visual Meta from its homepage!
Visual Meta for the Web
Part of our redesign will be the incorporation of Visual Meta into our pages.
What is Visual Meta you might ask? It is meta-data containing authorship and citation information allowing a page to effectively identify itself to reference managers.
But unlike older systems like COINS or HTML header meta-data tags, Visual Meta is a viable part of a document that a software application or human reader can easily locate and extract. And when printed, it can be scanned in and converted back to data via ORC technology. This makes it remarkably robust and superior to the automatically generated headers footers added by most browsers when a web page is printed.
Visual Meta is an open standard that at minimum contains a self-citation block, but it and can be augmented with additional content like glossary entries, so what we can do with Visual Meta is limited only by our imagination!
We Are Back! — The Fall 2021 Semester Commences!
We have been doing a lot of back-end plumbing work over the Summer and will be relaunching our website with totally new tooling in the days ahead.
Exciting new features will include Visual Meta to support robust automated citation of our work.
Stay tuned from here out for regular updates!