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the importance of being crawled

Thursday, January 29, 2009

While lcsh.info was up and running harvesters actively crawled it. At its core all lcsh.info did was mint a URI for every Library of Congress Subject Heading. This is similar in spirit to Brewster Kahle’s more ambitious OpenLibrary project to mint a URI for every book, or in his words:

One web page for every book

Aside: [...]

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terminology services sneak peak

Thursday, September 11, 2008

I just saw Diane Vizine-Goetz demo OCLC’s Terminology Services at the CENDI/SKOS meeting and was excited to see various things out on the public web. For example, the LCSH concept “World Wide Web” is over here:

http://tspilot.oclc.org/lcsh/sh2008114004

At the moment it’s not the most friendly human readable display, but that’s just a XSLT stylesheet away [...]

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w3c semweb use cases and lcsh

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 [...]

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lcsh.info SPARQL endpoint

Monday, July 7, 2008

I’ve set up a SPARQL endpoint for lcsh.info at sparql.lcsh.info. If you are new to SPARQL endpoints, they are essentially REST web services that allow you to query a pool of RDF data using a query language that combines features of pattern matching, set logic and the web, and then get back results in [...]

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SKOS in the Context of Semantic Web Deployment

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

If you happen to be in the DC area on May 8th and are interested in linked data and the practical application of semantic web technologies like RDF and OWL please join us at the Library of Congress for a presentation by Alistair Miles, key developer of SKOS, and semantic web practitioner at the University [...]

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