I've been noticing how people include a "colophon" section to their websites, eg:
http://daringfireball.net/colophon/
http://www.subtraction.com/ (see left)
http://daringfireball.net/colophon/
http://www.subtraction.com/ (see left)
Here's what the wikipedia entry says: "A brief description, usually located at the end of a book, describing production notes relevant to the edition
A printer's mark or logotype"
In web usage it seems like a bibliography of tools. It's an interesting view behind the scenes... Seems an honest practice, transparent.
Historically, according to the entry cited above, it included information about the owner of the document or scribner, etc. -- it is a kind of metadata, but a bit different. Will this broadened definition of colophons be important to scholarship? A new bibliographic necessity?
A printer's mark or logotype"
In web usage it seems like a bibliography of tools. It's an interesting view behind the scenes... Seems an honest practice, transparent.
Historically, according to the entry cited above, it included information about the owner of the document or scribner, etc. -- it is a kind of metadata, but a bit different. Will this broadened definition of colophons be important to scholarship? A new bibliographic necessity?
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