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web documents and axioms for linked data

Monday, February 22, 2010

A few months ago I took part in a discussion on the pedantic-web list, which started out as a relatively simple question about FOAF usage, and quickly evolved into a conversation about terms people use when talking about Linked Data, and more generally the Web.
I ended up having a very helpful off-list email exchange [...]

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Hacking O’Reilly RDFa

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

I recently learned from Ivan Herman’s blog that O’Reilly has begun publishing RDFa in their online catalog of books. So if you go and install the RDFa Highlight bookmarklet and then visit a page like this and click on the bookmarklet you’ll see something like:

Those red boxes you see are graphical depictions of where metadata [...]

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thank you wikipedia

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

I just donated to Wikipedia because I use it everyday. I work as a software developer at the Library of Congress. I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve spent the last 10 years filling in gaps in my computer science, math and philosophy knowledge. Working in libraries makes this sort of self-education process easier because [...]

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alien vs predator: www-style

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

I finally got around to reading Web Services for Recovery.gov by Erik Wilde, Eric Kansa and Raymond Yee. The authors wrote the report with funding from the Sunlight Foundation, who are deeply engaged in improving the way the US Federal Government provides transparent access to its data assets.
I highly recommend giving it a read [...]

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open to view

Thursday, August 13, 2009

I spent an hour checking out the HathiTrust API docs this morning; mainly to see what the similarities and differences are with the as-of-yet undocumented API for Chronicling America. There are quite a few similarities in the general RESTful approach, and the use of Atom, METS and PREMIS in the metadata that is made available. [...]

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freebase and linked-data

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Ok, this is pretty big news for linked data folks, and for semweb-heads in general. Freebase is now a linked-data target. This is important news because Freebase is an active community of content creators, creating rich data-centric descriptions with a wiki style interface, fancy data loaders, and useful machine APIs.
The web2.0-meets-semweb space is also [...]

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Martin Malmsten and linked library data

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

I’m currently listening to Richard Wallis’ interview w/ Martin Malmsten of the Royal Library of Sweden. It’s a really fascinating view inside a library, and the mind of a developer that are publishing bibliographic resources as linked data.
Partly as a dare from Roy Tennant to do something useful with linked-data, I spent 30 minutes w/ [...]

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mmalmsten++

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Holy crap … now I need to listen to this. It’s so nice to know you’re not alone, and off on another planet.

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lingvoj

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 [...]

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