Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 02/24/2009
From the Announcement: OCLC Programs and Research and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) announce research grant awards to Kathryn La Barre and Carol Tilley of the University of Illinois, Michael Khoo of Drexel University, and Bill Kules of The Catholic University of America. The awards were presented in January at the ALISE [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 02/23/2009
Making a Library Catalogue Part of the Semantic Web (6 pages; PDF) by Martin Malstrom, National Library of Sweden From the Abstract: Library catalogues contain an enormous amount of structured, high-quality data, however, this data is generally not made available to semantic web applications. In this paper we describe the tools and techniques used to make [...]
DigitalKoans (Free subscription) | 02/19/2009
The Public Knowledge Project has released Open Archives Harvester, an open source OAI-PMH harvester. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: This is a major rewrite of numerous parts of the Harvester code, including metadata storage and indexing. It increases indexing flexibility to support plugin-based indexing, including Lucene/SOLR support. It also adds OAI Data Provider support, including the...
UMBC eBiquity (Free subscription) | 02/12/2009
This could be a big step toward the “web of data” vision of the Semantic Web. Yahoo announced (Accessing Structured Data using BOSS that their BOSS (Build your Own Search System) will now support structured data, including RDF. “Yahoo! Search BOSS provides access to structured data acquired through SearchMonkey. Currently, we are only exposing data [...]
Cheese Shop recent updates (Free subscription) | 02/12/2009
Our basic skin: some macros, adapters and so on
Cheese Shop recent updates (Free subscription) | 01/31/2009
Zope Dublin Core implementation
eFoundations (Free subscription) | 01/30/2009
Michael Hausenblas yesterday announced the availability of version 1.0 of the voiD specification. void specifies an RDF-based approach to the description of RDF datasets that have been constructed following the principles of linked data. Although the emphasis is very much...
AI3:::Adaptive Information (Free subscription) | 01/22/2009
Writing and Sharing Data Can be Lightened Up Ever since I first started to learn in earnest about ontology, something has been gnawing at me. The term seemed to be (shall I say') an obtuse one whose obscurity was not the result of subtle precision or technicality, but rather one of fuzziness. As I introduced my [...]
Talking with Talis Podcasts (Free subscription) | 01/21/2009
In our latest podcast I talk with Daniel Tunkelang, co-founder and Chief Scientist of enterprise search company, Endeca. We talk about Endeca and then delve into some of the issues raised in a presentation that Daniel gave at Google’s New York offices earlier this year, exploring the lessons that search on the open Web might [...]
eFoundations (Free subscription) | 12/18/2008
I attended the briefing day for the JISC's Information Environment and e-Research Call in London on Monday and my live-blogged notes are available on eFoundations LiveWire for anyone that is interested in my take on what was said. Quite an...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/12/2008
Prime minister explains economic deal and says he wants America and Europe to work together to solve financial crisis
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
Israeli human rights group B'Tselem releases graphic footage of shooting after yesterday's forced evictions
Internet News (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
How the Semantic Web Will Change Information Management: Three Predictions by Silver Oliver, FUMSI (Oct 2008) Semantic Web means adding structure - making the web of unstructured data more accessible through explicit connections along the lines of Dublin Core metadata....
eFoundations (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Last week DCMI announced the publication of a couple of working drafts. One is a slightly updated version of the Interoperability Levels for Dublin Core Metadata document that I've mentioned already in some previous posts. The second is a document...
Catalogablog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Omeka 0.10 was released yesterday. Omeka 0.10b incorporates many of the changes you asked for: an unqualified Dublin Core metadata schema and fully extensible element sets to accommodate interoperability with digital repository software and collections management systems; elegant reworkings of our theme API and plugin API to make add-on development more intuitive and more powerful; a new, even more...
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