Panlibus (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Ed Summers has recently been active in exposing Library of Congress Subject Heading data as Linked Data using Semantic Web technologies and RDF, through his experimental service at lcsh.info. In this conversation we find out how Ed’s career, not always on a traditional library path, has led him to his work in the Library of [...]
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Alas, a bit disappointed to pick up on the continuation of the bogus microformats vs RDF holy war
Off the Mark (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Mark thinks Gorman had some important things to say, and that anyone who meets the core competencies could have said them. He’s also disingenuous and superficial. AKA my current Facebook status. I also figure I killed any chance of getting a job in the UIUC Library at this point. Ah well. I refuse to listen to a [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
From the website: The preliminary program for DC-2008 is now available. There are four keynote speakers on the program: On 23 September Kurt Mehlhorn (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik) and Jennifer Trant (Archives & Museum Informatics); on 24 September Ute Schwens (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek); and on 25 September Paul Miller (Talis). Apart from the 12 papers, 8 project reports [...]
SIVACRACY.NET (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Scan and Release: Digitizing the Boston Public Library | Everything is Miscellaneous ... Of this abundance, the digital group has so far scanned about 24,000 objects. When I point out to Maura Marx, the group’s head, that, given the library’s...
eFoundations (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Good grief... Dublin Core gets some bad press at times - some of it justified, some of it not - and I have a tendency to blow hot and cold on the subject myself every so often but my blood...
theory.isthereason (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
I was recently sponsored by the University at Buffalo Libraries to attend the CIT 2008 conference held at Genesee Community College in Batavia. From Wednesday to Friday, various faculty and staff converge to present their experiences with various instructional technology to further learning and education. See the entire CIT2008 photoset here… First thing that hit me [...]
eFoundations (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
Mikael Nilsson has circulated (to the DCMI Architecture forum mailing list) a short draft document titled Interoperability levels for Dublin Core metadata. The document is a result of both the discussions around the relationship of the DCMI Abstract Model and...
eFoundations (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Under their Repositories and Preservation Programme, JISC is currently funding a number of short projects (see the overview of this activity by Rachel Bruce) to develop (or in some cases to explore the feasibility of developing) metadata application profiles for...
Daniel Lewis (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
StraightWalker is a new Wordpress 2.3 Theme (not sure whether it works on 2.5), which I (Daniel Lewis) have developed. It is made specifically to be: Completely valid XHTML 1.0 Strict (some of the code base is from the Cutline theme, but I’ve highly modified it) Adds a few hCard based microformats (establishing POSH) Adds some XHTML meta [...]
Weibel Lines (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
Two reports on open source as an industry came to my attention this past week, each of which is encouraging for those who believe that open source software is a good thing. The first, Open source: 'World's largest software company'...
Softpedia - Latest Mac software (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
Dublin Core Viewer - Mozilla add-on that displays Dublin Core Metadata.
eFoundations (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Another somewhat belated post.... Andy and I both get occasional invitations to be members of advisory/steering groups for various programmes and projects operating in the areas in which we have an interest. I'm currently a member of the Advisory Group...
Kevin Burton's Feed Blog (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
A new version of Slurp is out the door apparently: Over the past few weeks, we’ve been preparing for the latest version of the Yahoo! Search crawler with some infrastructure updates, which recently caused a variance in our crawl behavior. With everything now in place, the rollout has officially begun. The new Yahoo! Slurp 3.0 recognizes the [...]
Softpedia - Latest Mac software (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
Dublin Core NeViewer - Mozilla add-on that displays Dublin COre Metadata.
