Open Briefing Standard

A few meta tags that let a publisher say, in their own words, how software should summarize their writing.

Assistants, readers and briefing tools summarize pages whether or not the author had a say. With OBS the author writes the summary once, and any tool that reads the tags can show or speak those words, credited, instead of guessing.

What it looks like

<meta property="obs:summary" content="Your summary, in your own words.">
<meta property="obs:headline" content="One or two lines to read before going further.">
<meta property="obs:attribution" content="From Example Blog">

The same tags can be mirrored in an RSS or Atom feed. OBS is a format only: it asks nothing of the tools that read it.

Read and try

• The specification (Draft 1.1; the tag names are not yet fixed)
• The tags, one line each
• Example pages
• Check a saved page: npx openbriefing check page.html (npm)

This page is a placeholder. A fuller site with a checker is on the way.