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Thursday, September 10, 2009

I’ve struggled in the past with what constitutes an Information Resource in the context of Web Architecture, Linked Data and practical digital library applications such as the National Digital Newspaper Project I work on at the Library of Congress. So it was reassuring to see the issue come up a few months ago during a [...]

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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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crawling bibliographic data

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Today’s Guardian article Why you can’t find a library book in your search engine prompted me to look at Worldcat’s robots.txt file for the first time. Part of the beauty of the web is that it’s an open information space where anyone (people and robots) can start with a single URL and follow their nose [...]

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We’ve got five years, my brain hurts a lot

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Recently there’s been a few discussions about persistent identifiers on the web: in particular one about the persistence of XRIs, and another about the use of HTTP URIs in semantic web applications like dbpedia.
As you probably know already, the w3c publicly recommended against the use of Extensible Resource Identifiers (XRI). The net effect of [...]

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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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identi.ca and linked data

Friday, July 11, 2008

If you’ve already caught the micro-blogging bug identi.ca is an interesting twitter clone for a variety of reasons…not the least of which is that it’s an open source project, and has been designed to run in a decentralized way. The thing I was pleasantly surprised to see was FOAF exports like this for user networks, [...]

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MIME types and library metadata

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

While thinking about library metadata and RESTful web services I got to wondering how many application/*+xml MIME types have actually been registered. It turns out that 120 out of the 633 other application/* MIME types.
Does it seem like a generally useful thing to be able to identify metadata representations with MIME types? Rebecca Guenther [...]

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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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good ore

Friday, November 2, 2007

In case you missed it the Object-Reuse-and-Exchange (ORE) folks are having a get together at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) on March 3, 2008. It’s free to register, but space is limited. The Compound information objects whitepaper, May 2007 Technical Committee notes and the more recent Interoperability for the Discovery, Use, and Re-Use of [...]

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