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American Memory is (almost) 20

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Through an internal discussion list at the Library of Congress I learned that this year will mark the 20th Anniversary of American Memory. The exact date of the anniversary depends on how you want to mark it: either the beginning of FY90 on October 1st, 1999 1989 (thanks David) when work officially began, or earlier [...]

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rest, the semantic web and my feeble brain

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Imagine you were minting close to a million URIs for historic newspaper pages such as:

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1898-01-01/ed-1/seq-1/

for pages like:

The web page allows you to zoom in quite close and see lots of detail in the page:

Now lets say I want to describe this Newspaper Page in RDF. I need to decide what subject URI to hang the [...]

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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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RepoCamp recap

Monday, July 28, 2008

So RepoCamp was a lot of fun. The goal was to discuss repository interoperability–and at the very least repository practitioners got to interoperate, and have a few beers afterwards. Hats off to David Flanders who clearly has got running these events down to a fine art.
I finally got to meet Ben O’Steen after bantering [...]

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