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crawling bibliographic data

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Today’s Guardian article Why you can’t find a library book in your search engine prompted me to look at Worldcat’s robots.txt file for the first time. Part of the beauty of the web is that it’s an open information space where anyone (people and robots) can start with a single URL and follow their nose [...]

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work identifiers and the web

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Michael Smethurst’s In Search of Cultural Identifiers post over at the BBC Radio Labs got me thinking about web identifiers for works, about LibraryThing and OCLC as linked library data providers, and finally about the International Standard Text Code. Admittedly it’s kind of a hodge-podge of topics, and I’m going to taking some liberties with [...]

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nekkid

Thursday, April 5, 2007

Yeah, today is CSS Naked Day I just hope I remember to re-enable CSS tomorrow :-)

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exhibit

Friday, February 16, 2007

If you haven’t tried Exhibit out yet the simile folks have created a truly wonderful data publishing framework which runs entirely in your browser with a bit of javascript, html and css.
The remarkable part is that it requires no backend database, but simply operates on a stream of json. If you have a [...]

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use the source luke

Friday, October 6, 2006

Can you imagine (back in the day) going to a page like the one at O’Reilly’s Safari doing a view-source in Mosaic and trying to learn HTML and how the web works?
sigh…

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set your data free … with unapi

Monday, August 28, 2006

Dan, Jeremy, Peter, Michael, Mike, Ross and I wrote an article in the latest Ariadne introducing the lightweight web protocol unAPI. Essentially unAPI is an easy way to include references to digital objects in your HTML which can then be predictably retrieved by a machine…yes ‘machine’ includes JavaScript running in a browser :-) Dan and [...]

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hGoogle

Thursday, April 13, 2006

So it’s been noted elsewhere that the latest ajaxy application out of google labs (Google Calendar) lacks support for the hCalendar microformat.
Perhaps it’s an oversight–but with all the high profile exposure microformats have been getting lately it’s kind of hard to imagine. But people have deadlines and some things just can’t make it into [...]

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Translation and a Citation Microformat

Saturday, April 1, 2006

I can think of only one company that has the resources to embed translation links into the world’s existing body of printed material. What’s more, while they are at it they are going to markup the title page with a citation microformat…and get this…the microformat is based on a openurl XMDP profile so that it’ll [...]

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reading 2.0

Monday, March 20, 2006

Reading 2.0 slipped under my radar, but I guess that was the idea: to let people from O’Reilly, Los Alamos National Labs, OCLC, The Internet Archive, Adobe, Yahoo, Harvard and Elsevier hobnob away from prying eyes. I haven’t seen any audio/video for the event but Tim O’Reilly has a nice fly on the wall summary [...]

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openurl as microformat

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

The Search

Author: John Battelle

Year: 2005

Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover

ISBN: 1591840880

Ok, so The Search is a great book so far…but I’m really just testing some local modifications I made to the structured blogging tool to use Book OpenURL KEV parameter names as a microformat. Take a look in the HTML and you should see them hiding there.

Here’s a somewhat prettified version as an image since I couldn’t get my syntax highlighter plugin to do a nice enough job with the HTML.

Pretty simple stuff right? Notice the COinS in there too? That’s thanks to Dan’s hacking at structured blogging. Actually getting openurl KEV support into structured blogging is another idea of Dan’s. Go Chudnov.

Update 01/19/2006 09:39 CST: Dan got similar support for journal articles. If this stuff caught on it could really revolutionize academic blogging…and more.

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