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rest, the semantic web and my feeble brain

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 [...]

lingvoj

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 [...]