Q: What do 100 year old knitting patterns and a lost Robert Louis-Stevenson story have in common?
A: A digitally preserved newspaper page.
Q: What about if you add:
URIs for knitting materials
William Blake’s Engravings
The similarities/differences between XMPP, HTTP and NNTP
Web crawling as data integration
Project coordination with rooms on FriendFeed
brewing Kombucha
A: Just a typical lunch time conversation at [...]
Some folks at LC and CDL are trying to kick-start a new public discussion list for talking about digital curation in its many guises: repositories, tools, standards, techniques, practices, etc. The intuition being that there is a social component to the problems of digital preservation and repository interoperability.
Of course NDIIPP (the arena for the [...]
One little bit of goodness that has percolated out from my group at $work in collaboration with the California Digital Library is the BagIt spec (more readable version). BagIt is an IETF RFC for bundling up files for transfer over the network, or for shipping on physical media. Just yesterday a little article about BagIt [...]
Thanks to a tip from Ian, I’m looking forward to (hopefully) attending the Linked Data Planet conference in New York City as a volunteer. The idea is that I just have to pay for my hotel, and the cost of admission is waived. It seems my travel money is a bit limited at the moment [...]
Recently there was a bit of interesting news around a MARBI Discussion Paper 2008-DP04 regarding semweb technologies at LC.
Related to this work are RDF/OWL representations and models for MODS and MARC, which we are also developing. Several representations of MODS in RDF/OWL, such as the one from the SIMILE project, have been made [...]
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I converted the pdf to text file called ‘lc’ with xpdf and then wrote a little python:
#!/usr/bin/env python
from urllib import urlopen
from re import sub
stop_words = urlopen(’http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/idom/ir_resources/linguistic_utils/stop_words’).read().split()
text = file(’lc’).read()
counts = {}
for word in text.split():
word = word.lower()
word = sub(r’\W’, ”, word)
word = sub(r’\d+’, ”, word)
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