Is MARC a data model?
I posted a status update to Twitter, identi.ca, and Facebook late last night hoping to suss out two questions: Is MARC a data model? But really: what qualifies something as a data model? I'd poked...
View ArticleLinking World Digital Library Data
As I mentioned earlier, I've been learning about linked data in the context of dropping it into the World Digital Library project. I am hopeful we'll be able to deploy the RDF views[1] before too...
View ArticleJSONovich emerges
JSONovich has now emerged from the Mozilla Add-ons sandbox and is available to the masses: http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10122.
View ArticleI2: Survey results
I wrote in June that the I2 subgroup surveyed "repository managers to determine the current practices and needs of the repository community regarding institutional identifiers. Results from the survey...
View ArticleCommand-line shuffle
Being a nerd, I tend to like the command-line. When I'm working on my laptop at home, I tend to like listening to music. Before I discovered that mplayer had a really convenient shuffle idiom, I would...
View ArticleExploring curation micro-services
As far as I'm concerned, the most exciting developments this year in repositories and digital curation have come out of the California Digital Library. It has been impossible not to notice their...
View ArticleForking
I am not certain if this is a good idea or not, but I decided to set up a "work blog" as I set off on my new path as a digital library architect. The lines between this blog and that blog are fuzzy —...
View ArticleJSONovich crawls into the future
For those of you who use JSONovich rather than, e.g., JSONView, I've tweaked the plugin (now at version 1.3) to work with Firefox 3.6. I updated the version up on the Mozilla site as well, but things...
View ArticleI2: Resource Description
I can hardly believe it's been eight months since I last wrote about the NISO I2 project. A lot has changed since then[1]. I continue to work on I2 however; they won't get rid of me that easily. In...
View ArticleJSONovich: Now with code-folding!
Thanks to a clean patch from Sean Coates, I'm releasing v1.5 of JSONovich. It now supports code-folding. Great hack, Sean!
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