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linking things and common sense

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Tom Scott’s recent Linking Things post got me jotting down what I’ve been thinking lately about URIs, Linked Data and the Web. First go read Tom’s post if you haven’t already. He does a really nice job of setting the stage for why people care about using distinct URIs (web identifiers) for identifying web documents [...]

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scoping intertwingularity

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Dan Brickley’s recent post to the public-lod discussion list about the future of RDF is one of the best articulations of why I appreciate the practice of linking data: And why would anyone care to get all this semi-related, messy Web data? Because problems don’t come nicely scoped and packaged into cleanly distinct domains. Whenever [...]

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Confessions of a Graph Addict

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Today I’m going to be at the annual conference of the American Library Association today for a pre-conference about Libraries and Linked Data. I’m going to try talking about how Linked Data, and particularly how the graph data structure fits the way catalogers have typically thought about bibliiographic information. Along the way I’ll include some [...]

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bibliographic records on the web

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

There are a couple interesting threads (disclaimer I inadvertently started one) going on over on the Open Library technical discussion list about making Linked Data views available for authors. Since the topic was largely how to model people, part of the discussion spilled over to foaf-dev (also my fault). When making library Linked Data available [...]

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the 5 stars of open linked data

Friday, June 4, 2010

While perusing the minutes of today’s w3c egov telecon I noticed mention of Tim Berners-Lee’s Bag of Chips talk at the gov2.0 expo last week in Washington, DC. I actually enjoyed the talk not so much for the bag-of-chips example (which is good), but for the examination of Linked Data as part of a continuum [...]

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research ideas for library linked data

Sunday, April 18, 2010

The past few weeks have seen some pretty big news for Library Linked Data. On April 7th the Hungarian National Library announced that its entire library catalog, digital library holdings, and name/subject authority data are now available as Linked Data. Then just a bit more than a week later, on April 16th the German National [...]

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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 [...]

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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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