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edu, gov and tlds in en.wikipedia external links

Monday, August 30, 2010

Some folks over at Wikipedia Signpost asked if they could use some of the barcharts I’ve been posting here recently. They needed the graphs to be released with a free license, which was a good excuse to slap a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license on all the content here at inkdroid. I’m kinda ashamed I [...]

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lots of copies keeps epubs safe

Monday, August 30, 2010

Over the weekend you probably saw the announcements going around about Google Books releasing +1 million public domain ebooks on the web as epubs. This is great news: epub is a web friendly, open format — and having all this content available as epub is important. Now I might be greedy, but when I saw [...]

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top hosts referenced in wikipedia (part 2)

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Jodi Schneider pointed out to me in an email that my previous post about the top 100 hosts referenced in wikipedia may have been slightly off balance since it counted *all* pages on wikipedia (talk pages, files, etc), and was not limited to only links in articles. The indicator for her was the high ranking [...]

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top hosts referenced in english wikipedia

Saturday, August 21, 2010

I’ve recently been experimenting a bit to provide some tools to allow libraries, archives and museums to see how Wikipedians are using their content as primary source material. I didn’t actually anticipate the interest in having a specialized tool like linkypedia to monitor who is using your institutions content on Wikipedia. So, the demo site [...]

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archival context on the web

Thursday, August 12, 2010

On Mark’s advice I attended the Moving Forward With Authority Society of American Archivists pre-conference, which focused on the role of authority control in archival descriptions. There were lots of presentations/discussions over the day, but by and large most of them revolved around the recent release of the Encoded Archival Context: Corporate Bodies, Persons and [...]

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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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linking things and common sense

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Tom Scott’s recent Linking Things post got me jotting down what I’ve been thinking lately about URIs, Linked Data and the Web. First go read Tom’s post if you haven’t already. He does a really nice job of setting the stage for why people care about using distinct URIs (web identifiers) for identifying web documents [...]

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scoping intertwingularity

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Dan Brickley’s recent post to the public-lod discussion list about the future of RDF is one of the best articulations of why I appreciate the practice of linking data: And why would anyone care to get all this semi-related, messy Web data? Because problems don’t come nicely scoped and packaged into cleanly distinct domains. Whenever [...]

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Confessions of a Graph Addict

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Today I’m going to be at the annual conference of the American Library Association today for a pre-conference about Libraries and Linked Data. I’m going to try talking about how Linked Data, and particularly how the graph data structure fits the way catalogers have typically thought about bibliiographic information. Along the way I’ll include some [...]

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bibliographic records on the web

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

There are a couple interesting threads (disclaimer I inadvertently started one) going on over on the Open Library technical discussion list about making Linked Data views available for authors. Since the topic was largely how to model people, part of the discussion spilled over to foaf-dev (also my fault). When making library Linked Data available [...]

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