Peter Norvig of Google mentioned Linked Data in his interview with Reddit Ask Me Anything (thanks Gunnar)
So right from the start researchers are writing code that use our main APIs that
are using the data that everyone else uses. If you want some web pages you use
the full copy of the web. If you want some [...]
I got the chance to attend the 2nd London Linked Data Meetup that was co-located with dev8d last week, which turned out to be a whole lot of fun. I figured if I waited long enough other people would save me from having to write a good summary/discussion of the event…and they have: thanks [...]
A few months ago I took part in a discussion on the pedantic-web list, which started out as a relatively simple question about FOAF usage, and quickly evolved into a conversation about terms people use when talking about Linked Data, and more generally the Web.
I ended up having a very helpful off-list email exchange [...]
I just donated to Wikipedia because I use it everyday. I work as a software developer at the Library of Congress. I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve spent the last 10 years filling in gaps in my computer science, math and philosophy knowledge. Working in libraries makes this sort of self-education process easier because [...]
It’s comforting to know that California Digital Library are selectively serving up fulltext content in HTML from their institutional repository for search engines to chew on. For example, compare the output of:
curl http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2896686x
with:
curl –header “User-Agent: Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.google.com/bot.html)” http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2896686x
You should see full-text content for the article in the latter and not in the former:
…
qt2896686x repo “Wholly [...]
I’ll be the first to admit the tone and content of my last post was a bit off kilter. I guess it was pretty clear immediately from the title of the post. Chalk it up to a second night of insomnia; and also to my unrealistic and probably unnecessary goal of bringing the Atom/REST camp [...]
I finally got around to reading Web Services for Recovery.gov by Erik Wilde, Eric Kansa and Raymond Yee. The authors wrote the report with funding from the Sunlight Foundation, who are deeply engaged in improving the way the US Federal Government provides transparent access to its data assets.
I highly recommend giving it a read [...]
I spent an hour checking out the HathiTrust API docs this morning; mainly to see what the similarities and differences are with the as-of-yet undocumented API for Chronicling America. There are quite a few similarities in the general RESTful approach, and the use of Atom, METS and PREMIS in the metadata that is made available. [...]
The Library of Congress has started to put selected content from Chronicling America into Flickr as part of the Illustrated Newspaper Supplements set. More details on the rationale and process involved can be found in a FAQ on the LC Newspapers and Current Periodical Reading Room website.
So for example this newspaper page on Chronicling [...]
Through an internal discussion list at the Library of Congress I learned that this year will mark the 20th Anniversary of American Memory. The exact date of the anniversary depends on how you want to mark it: either the beginning of FY90 on October 1st, 1999 1989 (thanks David) when work officially began, or earlier [...]
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