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simplicity and digital preservation, sorta

Friday, August 27, 2010

Over on the Digital Curation discussion list Erik Hetzner of the California Digital Library raised the topic of simplicity as it relates to digital preservation, and specifically to CDL’s notion of Curation Microservices. He referenced a recent bit of writing by Martin Odersky (the creator of Scala) with the title Simple or Complicated. In one [...]

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APIs Suck

Thursday, March 5, 2009

With TransparencyCamp last weekend, news of the mandated use of feed syndication by Federal Agencies receiving funds from the Recovery Act, recent blog posts by Tim O’Reilly and the Special Libraries Association, an article in Newsweek, news of Carl Malamud’s bid to become the Public Printer of the United States (aka head of the GPO), [...]

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public.resource.org to liberate Code of Federal Regulations

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

good news via the govtrack mailing list Carl Malamud of public.resource.org, with funding from a bunch of places including a small bit from GovTrack’s ad profits, announced his intention to purchase from the Government Printing Office documents they produce in the course of their statutory obligations and then have the nerve to sell back to [...]

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provide and enable

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

I got a chance to meet Jennifer Rigby of the National Archives UK at the LinkedDataPlanet Conference in New York City (thanks Ian). Jennifer is the Head of IT Strategy, and told me lots of interesting stuff related to a profound shift they’ve had in their online strategies to: Provide and Enable So rather than [...]

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WoGroFuBiCo cloud

Friday, January 11, 2008

access accessible addition al american analysis application applications appropriate archives areas association authority available based benefit benefits bibliographic broad broader catalog catalogers cataloging catalogs cataloguing chain change changes classification code collaboration collections committee communities community congress consequences consider considered content continue control controlled cooperative cost costs create created creating creation current data databases dc description [...]

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WoGroFuBiCo wc

Thursday, January 10, 2008

word count library 263 bibliographic 236 data 170 libraries 144 lc 127 control 109 information 98 cataloging 91 records 88 subject 82 materials 81 standards 81 use 80 congress 79 work 76 record 73 community 67 users 61 working 59 group 58 access 57 recommendations 56 resources 53 authority 52 metadata 47 future 46 new [...]

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