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alien vs predator: www-style

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

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 [...]

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open to view

Thursday, August 13, 2009

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. [...]

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resource maps and site maps

Friday, August 1, 2008

Andy reminds me that a relatively simple idea (I think it was David’s at RepoCamp) for the OAI-ORE Challenge would be to create a tool that transformed OAI-ORE resource maps expressed as Atom into Google Site Maps. This would allow “repositories” that exposed their “objects” as resource maps, to easily be crawled by Google and [...]

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RepoCamp recap

Monday, July 28, 2008

So RepoCamp was a lot of fun. The goal was to discuss repository interoperability–and at the very least repository practitioners got to interoperate, and have a few beers afterwards. Hats off to David Flanders who clearly has got running these events down to a fine art.
I finally got to meet Ben O’Steen after bantering [...]

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oai-ore post baltimore thoughts

Thursday, March 13, 2008

The recent OAI-ORE meeting was just up the road in Baltimore, so it was easy for a bunch of us from the Library of Congress to attend. I work on a team at LC that is specifically looking at the role that repositories play at the library; I’ve implemented OAI-PMH data providers and harvesters, and [...]

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