display-guidelines
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display guidelines are (sometimes also called syndication policy) instructions on a website for how other websites may or should (not) show information (like quotes, icons, other content) from that website, either in their entirety like a whole post, or excerpts, summaries, or citations thereof.
- Counterpart: remote content policy — your policy about how you will treat or show content from other websites
IndieWeb Examples
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capjamesg How to cite pages on my websiteSara Jakša indicates their (mostly lack of) preference to how to refer to them or how to cite them on their main page
Paul Watson provides a "Cite this post" link on every blog post which opens an overlay (no JavaScript - uses HTML5 "popover" global attribute) displaying scholarly citation examples for the post in various internationally-recognised academic citation formats including MLA 8 & 9, APA 6 & 7, Chicago, Harvard, Vancouver, and MHRA. Example blog post URL
zacharykaiwrites inspired by capjamesg has a set of loose ideas- Add yourself here… (see this for more details)
Silo Examples
Twitter has specific display guidelines requirements for showing tweets on your site.
Brainstorming
The idea: There should be standard markup and suggested styling for displaying information from other sites on your own.
Quote Guidelines
We should agree on best practices for marking up (and styling?) content quoted from other sites.
Quoting Embedding Display (QED) guidelines:
- Write IndieWeb versions of embedding/quoting display guidelines for when other sites display indie web posts/content
See: quoting for details and see reply-context for some thinking/progress.
Related IndieWebCamp sessions:
- 2012 IndieWebCamp UK: Quote_Guidelines
People Guidelines
We should agree on best practices for representing people on your own site.
E.g.:
- h-card, especially minimal markup h-cards