authorship tag

[Petite Abeille]

> On Jun 4, 2020, at 09:24, Thomas Karpiniec <tkarpiniec at icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm not clear what that would gain me as either an author or as a
> reader?

Our Imagination is the limit :)

For example:

For one, as both an author & a reader, I like to have text anchored in time. Nothing happen in a vacuum.

gemini and text/gemini have no notion of time at all.

Instead people tend to compensate by haphazardly leaving contextual breadcrumbs here and there about such basic information:

⇲ gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/cornedbeef/
=> microblogging-via-gemini-a-sketch.gmi	2020-06-01 - Microblogging via Gemini: a sketch
=> replies-in-geminispace.gmi	2020-05-31 - Replies in Geminispace
=> the-mercury-protocol.gmi	2020-05-26 - The Mercury Protocol
=> tls-musings.gmi		2020-05-14 - TLS musings
=> gemini-hearts-atom.gmi	2020-03-20 - Gemini ❤️s Atom! 

⇲ gemini://gemini.conman.org/gRFC/
=> 0001 0001 2019-08-01 PROPOSED MIME type and parameters for Gemini Index Files
=> 0002 0002 2019-08-01 ACCEPTED Resource request format for Gemini
=> 0003 0003 2019-08-01 PROPOSED Response header to include optional file size in reply
=> 0004 0004 2019-09-06 PROPOSED Gemini index format

The authorship tag gives a simple and consistent way to embed such date in the text/gemini document itself.

Furthermore, the tag provides, well,  authorship information: who did it?

E.g. gemini.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk points to solderpunk actual home at circumlunar.

This could be used creatively, by, say, uniquely styling ~solderpunk documents with sigil, color scheme, whatnot:

⌂ gemini.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk → f01c0885 → 4028369029 → ~lapryt-fidseg → sigil

This provides a more stable and granular alternative to the host IP address or certificate.

Finally, the tag itself is rather readable on its own:

tag:gemini.conman.org <http://gemini.conman.org/>,2019-08-01:gRFC/0002 <gemini://gemini.conman.org/gRFC/0002>#20:46:12

One tag, covering the Who, When, and What, in one fell swoop. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ws <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ws>





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