How to Attribute on the Web
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A brief introduction to a few ways to attribute on the web, plus a quick look at Creative Commons.
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How to Attribute on the Web
- 1. THE WEB IS ATTRIBUTION How to make friends and influence people on the Internet
- 4. What is attribution? I made this.
- 5. What is attribution? He, she, or they made this.
- 6. How do we attribute on the web?
- 7. How do we attribute on the web? http://
- 8. How do we attribute on the web? http:// every link is essentially an attribution
- 9. Why attribute on the web?
- 10. Why attribute on the web? It is ethical. It encourages accuracy. It aids research and builds on existing knowledge. It helps you build trust among your readers. It helps you build credibility among your peers.
- 11. WAYS TO ATTRIBUTE ON THE WEB
- 12. journalism: direct quotation
- 13. journalism: partial quotation
- 14. journalism: indirect quotation
- 15. blogs
- 16. blockquotes
- 18. blog aggregators
- 19. hat tip, via:
- 20. quoting yourself
- 21. to shorten or not
- 22. quoting visuals
- 23. embedding <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ bkjDrt2davA&hl=en&fs=1&"></ param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ bkjDrt2davA&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
- 24. charts
- 25. wikipedia
- 27. trackbacks
- 30. sharing from any website
- 31. facebook: attribution or referral?
- 32. facebook: attribution or referral?
- 36. COPY-PASTE KILLS If the license allows, remix, reuse, recycle. But don’t forget to attribute.
Editor's Notes
- An attribution is an acknowledgement that a person made this. It is a trace to the origin. It conveys the history of a piece of data or information, its lineage, its provenance.
- An attribution is an acknowledgement that a person made this. It is a trace to the origin. It conveys the history of a piece of data or information, its lineage, its provenance.
- An attribution is an acknowledgement that a person made this. It is a trace to the origin. It conveys the history of a piece of data or information, its lineage, its provenance.
- An attribution is an acknowledgement that a person made this. It is a trace to the origin. It conveys the history of a piece of data or information, its lineage, its provenance.
- An attribution is an acknowledgement that a person made this. It is a trace to the origin. It conveys the history of a piece of data or information, its lineage, its provenance.
- An attribution is an acknowledgement that a person made this. It is a trace to the origin. It conveys the history of a piece of data or information, its lineage, its provenance.
- Many, many hyperlinks, forward and backward, are attributions.
- Many, many hyperlinks, forward and backward, are attributions.
- A direct quotation faithfully reproduces a person&#x2019;s exact statement within quotation marks. http://www.bbc.co.uk
- A partial quotation takes an exact phrase from a statement and uses it in the SAME context in which it was spoken. http://www.bbc.co.uk
- An indirect quotation paraphrases someone&#x2019;s remarks without changing their meaning and attributes them to him or her, with a phrase like &#x201C;according to Prince Charming&#x201D; or &#x201C;the officials said.&#x201D; http://www.bbc.co.uk
- On a blog, attributions occur in all kinds of ways, both as direct, indirect, and partial quotations, as well as links to other stories, photocredits, bylines, etc. We could say that a major part of the Web itself, being made up of hyperlinks, is essentially a huge aggregation of attributions. And this is why copy-paste and plagiarism on the Web is such a bad idea&#x2014;a simple search and you&#x2019;ll always be found out. http://lifehacker.com/5308542/skip-body-mass-index-for-health-measurements
- A blockquote is a long passage quoted word for word form another source. On the web, as in print media, blockquotes are indented and not enclosed in quotation marks. http://ict4peace.wordpress.com
- The blog Syria Comment aggregates stories from many sources, attributing them academically and with a link.
- Global Voices is a blog aggregator. They attribute the blogs they cite with blockquote excerpts from the original post and links to the author&#x2019;s blog.
- Once I was attributed just for pointing to a new resource with a &#x201C;hat tip,&#x201D; a simple acknowledgement of where Beth Kanter found her information. It&#x2019;s often important not just to link to the source you want but also to the person who told you about it. It pays forward a kind of Web karma. http://beth.typepad.com
- In a kind of super meta-attribution, Gaurav Mishra catalogues the stories he&#x2019;s quoted in and posts about them, to affirm or sometimes clarify what he said. Then, he posts the whole story in which he was quoted. This way, he makes sure that he&#x2019;s properly attributed and also attributes the publications that cover what he says. gauravonomics.com/blog
- Sometimes we can shorten links, sometimes it&#x2019;s better not to. What&#x2019;s your rationale for why Beth Kanter shortens in one instance but not in others? I&#x2019;d say the shortened link is an unintelligble string (in fact, it is: http://wthashtag.com/transcript.php?page_id=2205&start_date=2009-06-18&end_date=2009-06-19&export_type=HTML) and the other link, though long, is search-engine friendly and tells you who&#x2019;s writing and what about. http://beth.typepad.com