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federal register embraces the web and opensource

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Tom Lee of the Sunlight Foundation blogged yesterday about the new Federal Register website. The facelift was also announced a few days earlier by the Archivist of the United States, David Ferriero. If you aren’t familiar with it already, the Federal Register is basically the daily newspaper of the United States Federal Government, which details [...]

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terminology services sneak peak

Thursday, September 11, 2008

I just saw Diane Vizine-Goetz demo OCLC’s Terminology Services at the CENDI/SKOS meeting and was excited to see various things out on the public web. For example, the LCSH concept “World Wide Web” is over here: http://tspilot.oclc.org/lcsh/sh2008114004 At the moment it’s not the most friendly human readable display, but that’s just a XSLT stylesheet away [...]

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lcsh.info SPARQL endpoint

Monday, July 7, 2008

I’ve set up a SPARQL endpoint for lcsh.info at sparql.lcsh.info. If you are new to SPARQL endpoints, they are essentially REST web services that allow you to query a pool of RDF data using a query language that combines features of pattern matching, set logic and the web, and then get back results in a [...]

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SKOS in the Context of Semantic Web Deployment

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

If you happen to be in the DC area on May 8th and are interested in linked data and the practical application of semantic web technologies like RDF and OWL please join us at the Library of Congress for a presentation by Alistair Miles, key developer of SKOS, and semantic web practitioner at the University [...]

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tabulator and google reader notifier oddness

Monday, March 17, 2008

If you’ve ever tried installing the Tabulator (Tim Berners-Lee’s experimental linked-data browser) and not seen it work you may have run into the same problem as me. On a hunch I guessed that there might be some weird interaction with another Firefox plugin — so I went through all 15 of them, disabling each one [...]

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rockin’ the plastic

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

High 5, more dead than alive Rockin’ the plastic like a man from a casket Yeah, the blog is back after getting routed by the LinuXploit Crew. The whole episode was really rewarding actually. I learned what projects I work on that need to be hosted elsewhere at more stable locations–that are likely to outlive [...]

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DemoCampDC

Friday, January 5, 2007

DemoCampDC is an adaptation of BarCamp to provide an informal mechanism for sharing technology shtuff in the DC area. If you are interested and in the DC area please add your name to the list of attendees and stay tuned.

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evergreen

Friday, December 22, 2006

In case you missed it linux.com is running an article by Michael Stutz on Evergreen, an open source integrated library system developed by the state of Georgia to support a consortium of 44 different libraries. (Thanks for the link Adam) Hanging out with miker_ and bradl in irc and having open-ils in my feed reader [...]

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rsinger++

Thursday, September 28, 2006

So Ross beat out 11 other projects to win the OCLC Research Software Contest for his next generation OpenURL resolver umlaut. Second place went to to Jesse Andrews’ BookBurro–so the competition was fierce this year. Much more so than last year when there were 4 contestants. Those of us who hang out in #code4lib got [...]

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ruby-oai v0.0.3

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

v0.0.3 of ruby-oai was just released to RubyForge. The big news is that this release allows you to use libxml for parsing thanks to the efforts of Terry Reese. Terry is building a RubyOnRails metasearch application at OSU and, well, felt the need for speed. After committing the branch he was working on I ran [...]

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