I write software for libraries and archives. I try to live up to at least the former in Release Early, Release Often, so most of my code musings can be found on GitHub. The idea is things incubate there, and if they ever become anything more than a plaything they migrate to a place like CPAN, RubyForge, Python Cheeseshop, etc…

Here are some things I’ve worked on in the past that are on GitHub (courtesy of Kenny Katzgrau’s handy GitHub/BitBucket Project Lister for WordPress):

• wikistream

  displays edit activity on wikipedia (156 watchers)

• pymarc

  process MARC records from Python (51 watchers)

• microdata

  python library for extracting html5 microdata (25 watchers)

• linkypedia

  a web based tool to monitor how your website content is used in wikipedia (24 watchers)

• rdflib-microdata

  an rdflib plugin to parse html5 microdata (21 watchers)

• bagit

  create BagIt style packages of digital content (21 watchers)

• ruby-oai

  a Ruby library for building OAI-PMH clients and servers (15 watchers)

• dflat

  an implementation of the dflat and redd specifications from CDL for versioning of digital objects (15 watchers)

• opensearch

  A python opensearch client (13 watchers)

• wikipulse

  a gauge widget to display wikipedia activity (11 watchers)

• lod-graph

  A protovis visualization of the linked open data cloud. (10 watchers)

• ptree

  minimal PairTree implementation (9 watchers)

• empirical-cloud

  a little demo visualization of owl:sameAs links in billion triple challenge data (8 watchers)

• nytimestream

  NYTimes Newswire API as a stream using node.js (7 watchers)

• geonames-localsolr

  A little project to help bootstrap a local-solr instance with geonames data. (7 watchers)

• dev8d-linked-data

  some experiments with linked data available from the dev8d conference (6 watchers)

• wikitweets

  see tweets that reference wikipedia articles (6 watchers)

• www-wikipedia

  Simple Perl client for grabbing content out of Wikipedia (6 watchers)

• dewey-crawler

  simplistic crawler and serializer for linked data at dewey.info (5 watchers)

• lcsh-subset

  create a subset view of LCSH (5 watchers)

• wikitrends

  see most viewed wikipedia articles (5 watchers)

• paperbot

  twitter bot for Chronicling America (5 watchers)

• chronam-widget

  view on NDNP content using just HTML/JavaScript and the Chronicling America API (5 watchers)

• cql-parser

  A Perl module for working with the Common Query Language (4 watchers)

• skosdict

  turn a SKOS concept scheme into a simple JSON dictionary (4 watchers)

• libweb

  extract library homepage urls from LIBWEB (4 watchers)

• bisac

  top level BISAC subject vocabulary (4 watchers)

• lochief

  A linked-data version of kochief (4 watchers)

• europeana-crawler

  a simple crawler of the RDFa in Europeana (4 watchers)

• data-gov-uk-harvester

  tiny little project to harvest rdfa metadata from data.gov.uk (3 watchers)

• lcsh-index

  a simple example of putting lcsh into an solr index (3 watchers)

• ocropy

  minimalist wrapper around ocropus for generating hOCR documents from images (3 watchers)

• restful-bag-server

  Draft of proposed structure for serving BagIt repositories RESTfully (3 watchers)

• sru-perl

  A Perl module for interacting with Search and Retrieve by URL servers (3 watchers)

• subjects-here

  An HTML5 experiment that uses OCLC's mapFast to lookup subjects for your current location. (3 watchers)

• oai2pairtree

  command line utility to dump records in an oai-pmh repository as xml in a pairtree (3 watchers)

• namaste

  Python port of the Namaste Perl module, "which implements the Namaste (Name as Text) convention for containing a data element completely within the content of a file, using as filename an approximation of the value preceded by a numeric tag." (3 watchers)

• google-count

  hack to count google hits (3 watchers)

• pairtree

  Python Pairtree implementation (3 watchers)

• worksvenn

  generate a Venn diagram for LibraryThing, OCLC and OpenLibrary FRBRization services (3 watchers)

• lc-findingaids

  (3 watchers)

• databib-metadata

  example html/metadata examples for databib (2 watchers)

• django-sugar

  Curated collection of all the sweet Django helpers/utilities developers create, and sometimes recreate too often. (2 watchers)

• twitterator

  iterator functions for twitter api (2 watchers)

• mediatypes

  A project that harvests media type information from the IANA registry, and publishes information as linked data using the Google App Engine. (2 watchers)

• oai2xmpp

  oai-pmh -> xmpp (2 watchers)

• versioning-metrics

  little utility to compare approaches to version control (2 watchers)

• ohh

  share content, have fun, make friends (2 watchers)

• lldvis

  LLD Visualiser (1 watcher)

• redis

  Redis key-value store (1 watcher)

• webarchives

  see if a URL is available in a web archive somewhere on the web (1 watcher)

• marc-detrans

  Perl de-transliteration engine for converting romanized text in bibliographic data to native scripts. (1 watcher)

• bagit-ruby

  Ruby Library and Command Line tools for bagit (1 watcher)

• marc-subjectmap

  perl framework for translating subject headings in MARC data (1 watcher)

• Socket.IO

  Sockets for the rest of us (1 watcher)

• muldicat

  tool to generate SKOS for the Multilingual Dictionary of Cataloging Terms and Concepts (1 watcher)

• django-pagination

  A set of utilities for creating robust pagination tools throughout a django application. (1 watcher)

• beat

  little experiment to look at links in LC bibliographic data (1 watcher)

• lcco

  Converts a textual representation of the Library of Congress Classification Outline into SKOS/RDF and makes it available on the Web in a hierarchical viewer. (1 watcher)

• bootstrap

  CSS toolkit from Twitter (1 watcher)

• toxic-bags

  a collection of BagIt test data (1 watcher)

• south-test

  just a throw away demo app (1 watcher)

• requests

  Python HTTP Requests for Humans. (1 watcher)

• NativeImaging

  Experimental PIL-like interface for basic functionality using platform native libraries such as GraphicsMagick (1 watcher)

• python-sitemap

  Python library for parsing & generating sitemaps (1 watcher)

• alto-words

  simplistic calculation of the ratio of dictionary words to all words in a METS Alto OCR file (1 watcher)

• django-tastypie

  Creating delicious APIs for Django apps since 2010. v1.0.0-beta (1 watcher)

• fastcat

  navigate wikipedia categories quickly in a local redis instance (1 watcher)

• python-oauth2

  A fully tested, abstract interface to creating OAuth clients and servers. (1 watcher)

• microdata_schemaorg_example

  Step by step example of applying Microdata and Schema.org vocabularies to a digital collections site. (1 watcher)

• aotycmp

  hack to see what well reviewed albums-of-the-year are available on Spotify and Rdio (1 watcher)

• wordpressure

  realtime view of new items posted to WordPress sites (1 watcher)

• id

  LCSH SKOS webapp (1 watcher)

• ckanext-storage

  CKAN storage extension. (1 watcher)

• inkdroid-proxy

  my node.js proxy server (1 watcher)

• inkdroid-apache

  my config files for apache (1 watcher)

• collection

  Cooper-Hewitt's Collection Database (1 watcher)

• node

  evented I/O for v8 javascript (1 watcher)

• semantictweet

  A simple Sinatra application that provides a FOAF semantic web feed of your twitter friends and followers. Forked from sinatra-template. (1 watcher)