2016/NYC/Webmentions

Webmentions was a session at IndieWebCamp NYC 2016.

2016-01-22

Session proposer: Mark Matienzo (anarchivist)

Two potential topics:

What is WebMentions, and how do I get started with it?
Addressing "weird" use cases for content which are not "posts", "photos", etc "created by a person"?

e.g. items in DPLA: http://dp.la/item/316504aa5a119e17f43898cdc9e0bf4e

International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) - image resources, sequences, etc.; use cases around notifications around annotations:

What is Webmention used for?

Let site A know that site B is linking to a page/post.
Start to collect or present that information
"If it's on the web, it can be used with Webmentions."
Before webmentions, there were trackbacks, but they had many issues. Cf. Pingbacks (see illustration):
WebMention spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/

Are there motivating use cases around attribution/citation?

Looking at @aaronpk's site: http://aaronparecki.com/notes/2016/01/04/2/harry-potter-clock#comments
Re: citation: Discusion from IWC 2015 PDX on bibliographic data: http://etherpad.indiewebcamp.com/catalog
Bridgy - https://brid.gy/ - proxy/integration layer for other platforms e.g. Twitter, etc.
Note references in spec with how to deal with JSON
Mark M talking about IIIF (http://iiif.io) usecases around WebMention: - see * https://groups.google.com/d/msg/iiif-discuss/CfSzsg0qiRM/o8FMrpk5DAAJ and following messages in the thread

Note conversation between aaronpk and tantek in IRC:

14:45 <@tantek> aaronpk: do your /collection posts send webmentions to the things being collected?
14:45 <@aaronpk> yes, just like any other post
14:46 <@tantek> if you receive a webmention to one of your posts that it is in a collection on someone else's site, do you show anything different on that post? like "this post has been placed into N collections?" or "this post was collected into ... "?
14:46 <@aaronpk> nope, I don't know how to tell if a post is in a collection
14:47 <@tantek> how do your /collection posts link to the stuff they collect?
14:47 <@aaronpk> the collection post is an h-entry, and it contains many children which are all h-cite objects
14:48 <@aaronpk> that seems like an okay pattern, i hadn't thought about checking the reverse

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