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canonical question

Friday, May 15, 2009

As the last post indicated I’m part of a team at loc.gov working on an application that serves up page views like this for historic newspapers–almost a million of them in fact. For each page view there is another URL for a view of the OCR text gleaned from that image, such as this. Yeah, [...]

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VocabularySoup (1)

Thursday, March 26, 2009

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 [...]

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oai-ore and the shadow web

Friday, February 22, 2008

The OAI-ORE meeting is coming up, and in general I’ve been really impressed with the alpha specs that have come out. It’s not clear that there’s an established vocabulary for talking about aggregated resources on the web, so the Data Model and Vocabulary documents were of particular interest to me.
One thing I didn’t quite understand, [...]

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following your nose to the web of data

Friday, January 4, 2008

This is a draft of a column that’s slated to be published some time in Information Standards Quarterly. Jay was kind enough to let me post it here in this form before it goes to press. It seems timely to put it out there. Please feel free to leave comments to point out inaccuracies, errors, [...]

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