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a middle way for linked data at the bbc

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

I got the chance to attend the 2nd London Linked Data Meetup that was co-located with dev8d last week, which turned out to be a whole lot of fun. I figured if I waited long enough other people would save me from having to write a good summary/discussion of the event…and they have: thanks [...]

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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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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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flickr, digital curation and the web

Thursday, July 9, 2009

The Library of Congress has started to put selected content from Chronicling America into Flickr as part of the Illustrated Newspaper Supplements set. More details on the rationale and process involved can be found in a FAQ on the LC Newspapers and Current Periodical Reading Room website.
So for example this newspaper page on Chronicling [...]

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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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canonical question

Friday, May 15, 2009

As the last post indicated I’m part of a team at loc.gov working on an application that serves up page views like this for historic newspapers–almost a million of them in fact. For each page view there is another URL for a view of the OCR text gleaned from that image, such as this. Yeah, [...]

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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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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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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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c4l09

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

So code4lib2009 was a whole lot of fun. The amazing thing about the conference isn’t really reflected in the program of talks. I feel like I can say that since I was one of them.
The real value is the social space and the time to talk to people you’ve seen online, throw around ideas, [...]

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