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Mendeley and APIs
Now Ian Mulvany talking about Mendeley and how they use APIs – both publishing and consuming. Try to expose all the metadata being added by users via an API – a “social catalogue”. This enables...
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MaRC and SolrMaRC
At the recent Mashcat event I volunteered to do a session called ‘making the most of MARC’. What I wanted to do was demonstrate how some of the current ‘resource discovery’ software are based on...
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Boutique Catalogues
In my previous post on MaRC and SolrMaRC I described how SolrMaRC could be used, as part of Blacklight, VuFind or other discovery layers, to create indexes from various parts of the MaRC record. My...
View ArticleRepository Services
I’m briefly at the Open Repositories 2012 conference in Edinburgh, and this morning in a session about ‘repository services’ – which sounds like a nice easy session to ease into the morning, but is...
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ResourceSync: Web-based Resource Synchronization
Final paper in the ‘Repository Services’ session at OR2012 is presented by Simeon Warner. This is the paper I really wanted to see this morning as I’ve seen various snippets on twitter about it (via...
View ArticleWhat to do with Linked Data?
I think Linked Data offers some exciting opportunities to libraries, archives and museums (LAMS), and I’m pleased and excited that others feel the same. However there has been, in my view – and on my...
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Using Open Refine for e-journal data
Open Refine (previously Google Refine) is a tool for manipulating and ‘cleaning’ data (more information is available on the new Open Refine site). If you use Excel to do general data jobs, then it’s...
View ArticleTo scrape or not to scrape?
I’m currently participating in the #willhack online hackathon. This is an event being run by EDINA at the University of Edinburgh, as part of their Will’s World project, which in turn is part of the...
View ArticleThe time is out of joint
This is an update on my progress with my #willhack project. As I wrote in my previous post: my aim is to build a WordPress plugin that starts from the basis of plays expressed as a series of WordPress...
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Shakespeare as you like it
This is a slightly delayed final post on my Will Hack entry – which I’m really happy to say won the “Best Open Hack” prize in the competition. I should start by acknowledging the other excellent work...
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Introduction to APIs
On Wednesday this week (6th Feb 2013) I spent a day at the British Library in London talking to curators about data and the web. The workshop was a full day and we covered a lot of ground - from HTML...
View ArticleDiscovery Summit 2013 – a foreword
I’m at the British Library for the next couple of days for the JISC/BL Discovery Summit. This is an event that brings together work from the last 4 years which started with the snappily named “Resource...
View ArticleDiscovery Summit Keynote: Maura Marx
Maura Marx is from the Digital Public Library of America. Interesting comment from Maura in this session of ‘Are we failing users’ – she said DPLA “think about Developers as users a lot” – something...
View ArticleDiscovery Summit: Paul Walk keynote
Paul talking about Open and Closed – not licensing or access, but about ‘open world assumption’ vs ‘closed world assumption’ Paul describes characteristics of ‘open world’: Incomplete information...
View ArticleGoogle Cultural Institute
James Davies talking about Google Cultural Institute. As Google grew in size, it increased in scope. Encouraged employees to follow passions. If you get a dozen people in the room you’ll find at least...
View ArticleInteroperability in Archival descriptions
Jenny Bunn from UCL starting with a summary of history of archival description standards – from USMARC AMC (1977) to ISAD(G) (1st edition formally published 1994). Meanwhile WGSAD in the US published...
View ArticleDiscovery API at The National Archives
Aleks Drozdov – enterprise architect for Discovery system at the National Archive (TNA). Going to speak about APIs and Data and how implemented in Discovery system at TNA. My Introduction to APIs post...
View ArticleTriples to Trenches – Linked Data in Archives
Lianne Smith from King’s College London Archives Archives have records/papers from Senior Military personnel (I think I got that right?) [update 10th March 2013: thanks to David Underdown in the...
View ArticleContemporaneous part one
I recently did a couple of workshops for the British Library about data on the web. As part of these workshops I did some work with the the BNB data using both the API and the SPARQL endpoint. Having a...
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Contemporaneous part two
Following on from my previous post about BNB and SPARQL in this post I’m going to describe briefly building a Chrome browser extension that uses the SPARQL query described in that post – which given a...
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