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A venue is a named location or address/geo that is typically used for checkins.

indieweb venues are the practice of self-hosting checkin venues (self hosted venues) on your own site with your own URLs.

Why

You should host your own venues with your own URLs for all the usual longevity reasons, but also to give yourself the freedom of defining new venues by your own experience, not just by someone else’s map.

How to

How To Publish

Give each venue a URL containing a basic h-card. In this regard, a venue is kind of a special case of a wiki-page in that it is more of a timeless page than a post that has an explicit published date.

More "How to" TBD, see #Brainstorming.

Indieweb Examples

Barnaby Walters

Barnaby Walters has been publishing venue data on waterpigs.co.uk since 2014-08-19, consisting of:

gRegor Morrill

gRegor Morrill has been publishing individual venues on gregorlove.com since 2015-11-12. Currently publishing each venue name, address, and URL with h-card. The events I publish then link to this URL to indicate the location.

On https://gregorlove.com/2023/04/i-decided-to-show/ 2023-04-24], I updated the venue pages to include links to past events.

Lists of venues

Since 2024-12-08, publishing lists of venues of recommendations:

rhiaro

Amy Guy has been publishing 'venues' on at rhiaro.co.uk/locations since 2015-12-29. They're not real places, but a list of vague places I check in to (home, office, etc). Only contain name and description. Marked up with h-cards but also available as ActivityStreams2 Collections in JSON-LD and turtle. My checkin app burrow reads this list to present me with buttons to tap to check in.

David Shanske

David Shanske has been publishing 'venues' on his site since 2022-11-13. Prior to this, he mostly linked to external venues. At this time, the interface for creating venues remains auto-import from Swarm or manual creation separately from the post...but hoping in future to add a better local only interface.

  • ... ??? link to venue published as of 2022-11-13?

Prototype Examples

IndieWeb sites publishing things resembling venues, but not quite separate venue posts yet.

Tantek

Tantek Çelik started posting a photo and searchable permalink for "Horizontal Control Mark" physical placements on 2016-10-10:

Related use-cases:

  • travel reminders — it can be particular useful to have your own easily linkable and editable list of venues for any particular city you might travel, for the purposes of personal curation, places you want to see/try, or places you want to return to. Whether sites, museums, cafes, restaurants, etc.

Past Examples

capjamesg

capjamesg previously published a venue page for Lowdown Coffee, Edinburgh.