Lazyweb: Tracking comments with dc:contributor

I just noticed that I've been listed as a <dc:contributor> in the HTML source of this blog article.

I've been using GoogleRT for a week or so now to look for posts from myself, as Google finds them. It's useful for finding responses I make on various blogs.

I don't know what current HTML RSS RDF thingy that these tags are a part of, but they're a real easy way for me to locate posts I make using Google -- and they're cached, too, so I don't have to use your bandwidth to read them.

It sounds like a central index of the articles, something that'd be useful to add to the recent discussions on finding comments.. It does have one side effect; if I'm listed as a <dc:contributor> because I provided comment for the article, I'll see those articles too.

Lazyweb, I invoke thee: Is there a way to have my blog software scan my post for <cite> tags, and generate the proper <dc:contributor> elements in the header (and RSS feeds) of my blog? NNW could scan my RSS feeds for this stuff, and highlight articles I'm a contributor to.

Comments

[Timothy Appnel]

Just curious. What if you want to mark something with a cite that is not a person? Such as a book title or an essay like the HTML documentation gives as an example.

[floating atoll]

Hm, good point. The class attribute comes in handy here, I suppose.

<cite class="contributor"> ... </cite>