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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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Documents

Thursday, September 10, 2009

I’ve struggled in the past with what constitutes an Information Resource in the context of Web Architecture, Linked Data and practical digital library applications such as the National Digital Newspaper Project I work on at the Library of Congress. So it was reassuring to see the issue come up a few months ago during a [...]

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VocabularySoup (1)

Thursday, March 26, 2009

It’s been great to see RDFa being picked up by web2.0 publishers like Digg and MySpace. You can use the RDFa Distiller to extract the RDFa from a given web page u by constructing a URI like:

http://www.w3.org/2007/08/pyRdfa/extract?format=turtle&uri=u

Which translates kind of nicely into a command line utility to add to your ~/bin:

#!/bin/sh
curl “http://www.w3.org/2007/08/pyRdfa/extract?format=turtle&uri=$1″

So with that [...]

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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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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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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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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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provide and enable

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

I got a chance to meet Jennifer Rigby of the National Archives UK at the LinkedDataPlanet Conference in New York City (thanks Ian). Jennifer is the Head of IT Strategy, and told me lots of interesting stuff related to a profound shift they’ve had in their online strategies to:

Provide and Enable

So rather than pouring [...]

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