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Feb 19, 2013
Using the webvtt gem, you can display on the page the WebVTT subtitles, captions, or chapters you’ve created for HTML5 video or audio. If you’re already creating WebVTT files for your media, you ought to get the most use out of it as you can. I’ll show you one way you could use them.
read moreJan 24, 2013
The Web Data Commons is extracting the structured data discovered in the Common Crawl corpus, and they’re making the extracted data and some high-level analyzed data available for free to all. I took a look at which properties of http://schema.org/Book were actually used in the wild in the August 2012 corpus. My hope is to inform, in a small way, the discussion around extending Schema.org to better accommodate bibliographic data happening through the W3C Schema Bib Extend Community Group. By seeing what is actually being used, we might make better decisions about how Schema.org could be extended.
read moreJan 15, 2013
The Common Crawl now has a URL index available. While the Common Crawl has been making a large corpus of crawl data available for over a year now, if you wanted to access the data you’d have to parse through it all yourself. While setting up a parallel Hadoop job running in AWS EC2 is cheaper than crawling the Web, it still is rather expensive for most. Now with the URL index it is possible to query for domains you are interested in to discover whether they are in the Common Crawl corpus. Then you can grab just those pages out of the crawl segments.
read moreDec 27, 2012
If you have published video on the Web with HTML5 Video, then you will want to know how engaged your viewers are with your video. This post will lead you through collecting the data you need to assess your video publishing efforts. Services like Google Analytics only get you so far. To get deeper insights into how your video is being used, you may want to track detailed video engagement analytics.
read moreDec 22, 2012
While there is a lot of good information on the Web about HTML5 Video, I wanted to put down everything that I gathered together about it. As I work on video projects, I will continue to add more and new information to this post.
This post is in the form of a tutorial where a single page is built up little by little as new problems arise or new features are implemented. I hope for this to be a gentle introduction to HTML5 Video.
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