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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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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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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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MIME types and library metadata

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

While thinking about library metadata and RESTful web services I got to wondering how many application/*+xml MIME types have actually been registered. It turns out that 120 out of the 633 other application/* MIME types.
Does it seem like a generally useful thing to be able to identify metadata representations with MIME types? Rebecca Guenther [...]

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