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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 [...]

Also filed in html, libraries, web | Tagged books, crawling, google, http, indexing, libraries, oclc, robots | Comments (2)

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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- @lukask starts here: http://bit.ly/d5HPNl ; @oestephens no worries, I haven't even read the thread yet :-) in reply to lukask 14 hrs ago
- @librarythingtim imho buzz is just encouraging HTML best practices: Advertise feeds with <link>, markup someone's homepage with xfn rel="me" in reply to librarythingtim 20 hrs ago
- @librarythingtim i guess having people ask you to add microformats to LT over drinks with indierock playing would make it more palatable? in reply to librarythingtim 20 hrs ago
- hooray @gmcharlt has leapfrogged marcpm sourceforge (marc-record, marc-charset, marc-xml, marc-lint) from cvs to git http://bit.ly/9V8iey 21 hrs ago
- @hvdsomp you are right to defend the practical work you & others have done to bridge the traditional and web publishing worlds in reply to hvdsomp 21 hrs ago
- @hvdsomp it's awkward, but i guess it's important to do for the sake of continuity in reply to hvdsomp 21 hrs ago
- @mjgiarlo well, that's encouraging you did a nice job of it ... @cygri's homepage is a good example too http://bit.ly/cBvrqJ in reply to mjgiarlo 21 hrs ago
- @mjgiarlo looks like you've got RDFa down pat, any thoughts about how hard it was to do? in reply to mjgiarlo 22 hrs ago
- looking fearfully at a 23 message email thread with the subject "OpenURL and/or Linked Data" 22 hrs ago
- pretty cool to see atompub @netflix http://bit.ly/9kVSs5 ; odata rebranding is odd http://bit.ly/asIZKj, as are link rel m$ uris that 404 23 hrs ago
- started creating a code4lib wiki page about library data, then decided instead to add things to ckan w/ #library tag http://bit.ly/aIDFnS 1 day ago
- The Frog EPrints ; The SWORD in the Stone #digitalcurationcartoons 1 day ago
- @mrgunn sorry to hear you wasted that much time on it when others had no trouble at all :-( in reply to mrgunn 1 day 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 2 days 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 2 days ago
- @pkeane huh, yeah ; looks like 2.5 introduced try-except-finally-block ; good to know :-) in reply to pkeane 2 days ago
- @mrgunn oh, hmm did you git clone git://github.com/edsu/bagit.git it should work from there in reply to mrgunn 2 days 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 2 days ago
- @pkeane thanks for trying, test suite similarly fails then? `python test.py` in reply to pkeane 2 days ago
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