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Thursday, September 10, 2009

I’ve struggled in the past with what constitutes an Information Resource in the context of Web Architecture, Linked Data and practical digital library applications such as the National Digital Newspaper Project I work on at the Library of Congress. So it was reassuring to see the issue come up a few months ago during a [...]

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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Q: What do 100 year old knitting patterns and a lost Robert Louis-Stevenson story have in common?
A: A digitally preserved newspaper page.
Q: What about if you add:

URIs for knitting materials
William Blake’s Engravings
The similarities/differences between XMPP, HTTP and NNTP
Web crawling as data integration
Project coordination with rooms on FriendFeed
brewing Kombucha

A: Just a typical lunch time conversation at [...]

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- @mrgunn sorry to hear you wasted that much time on it when others had no trouble at all :-( in reply to mrgunn 18 hrs ago
- @mrgunn feel free to email me error message, or better yet, create an issue on github http://bit.ly/bf8jRx in reply to mrgunn 1 day ago
- @mrgunn it looks like python3.1 does have multiprocessing ; but the try/except syntax is different, so that would need some adjustment in reply to mrgunn 1 day ago
- @pkeane huh, yeah ; looks like 2.5 introduced try-except-finally-block ; good to know :-) in reply to pkeane 1 day ago
- @mrgunn oh, hmm did you git clone git://github.com/edsu/bagit.git it should work from there in reply to mrgunn 1 day ago
- @mrgunn oops yeah, I still need to remove that dependency on unix mv ; thanks for trying it out ; I would be interested to see the error in reply to mrgunn 1 day ago
- @pkeane thanks for trying, test suite similarly fails then? `python test.py` in reply to pkeane 1 day ago
- @mrgunn not so important what's in the background, but an indication of how many cores you have would be great! in reply to mrgunn 1 day ago
- if you are bored, and have a multicore system i'd appreciate it if you could run http://bit.ly/9NTlaA & send output to ehs at pobox dot com 1 day ago
- @librarythingtim because you don't respond to your email? :-) in reply to librarythingtim 1 day ago
- so digg and twitter are both moving to cassandra? http://bit.ly/aSy2dY http://bit.ly/aLfavC 1 day ago
- dang, 137 years of Popular Science available online via Google http://bit.ly/cl1ZTH e.g. http://bit.ly/bj3Vmx 1 day ago
- added md5 parallelization to minimalist bagit library using python's multiprocessing module http://bit.ly/b4BEFE 2 days ago
- @dbrunton @linabrunton thanks for letting us invade your homestead to see your chicks; kids were surprisingly sedate on the way home btw :-) 2 days ago
- ushering in the weekend w/ Dogfish Head Aprihop in hand http://bit.ly/cWwGvd 3 days ago
- viaf.org has an opensearch description (yay) but they don't allow http clients to auto-discover it (boo) 3 days ago
- @gkob thanks for writing about uberblic's #wikipedia data extraction and real time update mechanisms http://bit.ly/ddJCD6 4 days ago
- @adrianstevenson funnily enough I was reading about URI Sets this AM on the train: http://bit.ly/cqAKsv ; an important effort imho 4 days ago
- @adrianstevenson @azaroth42 i wonder if talking about a URI Set saves some people from having to say "No, not that kind of Graph!!" :-) in reply to adrianstevenson 4 days ago
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