Understanding the Open Graph Standard
We are currently working on developing the MishMash webpages. Since I don’t like adding and editing the same information in multiple places, I have been interested in whether the MishMash pages can (as far as possible) “automagically” collect information from other locations. When setting up our partner events pages, I realised that it was possible to collect most of the useful information (title, location, date, image) from the metadata of the pages already hosted on other websites. This makes it much easier to add partner events than if we had to set up our own pages on MishMash.no, which would also duplicate much content. The standard making this happen is called Open Graph. Since I didn’t know about this before I began my little adventure, here is a short overview. ...