It’s been great to see RDFa being picked up by web2.0 publishers like Digg and MySpace. You can use the RDFa Distiller to extract the RDFa from a given web page u by constructing a URI like:
http://www.w3.org/2007/08/pyRdfa/extract?format=turtle&uri=u
Which translates kind of nicely into a command line utility to add to your ~/bin:
#!/bin/sh
curl “http://www.w3.org/2007/08/pyRdfa/extract?format=turtle&uri=$1″
So with that [...]
Friday, September 5, 2008
Via Ivan Herman I learned that the Semantic Web Use Cases use concepts from lcsh.info. For example look at the RDFa in this case study for the Digital Music Archive for the Norwegian National Broadcaster. You can also look at the Document metadata in a linked data browser like OpenLink. Click on the “Document” and [...]
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
I’m just now running across lingvoj.org, a linked-data application for languages created by Bernard Vatant. lingvoj basically mints URIs for languages (using the ISO-639-1 code) and when resolved (yay HTTP) nice human and machine readable descriptions about the language are returned. So for example the URI for Chinese is:
http://www.lingvoj.org/lang/zh
If you click on that link, your [...]
Alistair wanted to have some data to demonstrate the potential of linked library data, so I quickly converted 10K MARC records (using a slightly modified version of MARC21slim2RDFDC.xsl and rewrote the subjects as lcsh.info URIs using a few lines of python…all a bit hackish, but it got this particular job done quickly.
The rewriting of [...]
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