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In September 2011 the British Museum started publishing descriptions of items in its collections as RDF (the data structure that underlies Linked Data). The data is available from http://collection.britishmuseum.org/ where the Museum have made a ‘SPARQL Endpoint? available. SPARQL is a query language for extracting data from RDF stores ? it can be seen as a [...]
Just a little message for ChrisMash: On the first day of ChrisMash my true love sent to me, some cake and some coffee. On the second day of ChrisMash my true love sent to me, two APIs and some cake and some coffee. On the third day of ChrisMash my true love sent to me, three Google Maps, two APIs and some cake and some coffee. On the fourth [...]
Today I?m at the programme kick-off meeting for the JISC Mobile Infrastructure. There are 5+1 projects funded in this strand, as detailed by the programme manager, Ben Showers, in this blog post. I?m working with Evidence Base on the ?+1? project which is a support project looking to establish a ?mobile library community? and ways [...]
?Openly Connect? was the title of a talk I gave at Internet Library International 2011 (tipping my hat slightly to Only Connect, the BBC4 quiz show). I?ve been wondering about the best way of sharing the presentation online, and decided that really blogging the ideas is much more useful than just dumping the slides somewhere. [...]
The keynote this morning from Kevin Anderson (@kevglobal) and Suw Charman-Anderson (@suw) ? journalists and technologists (http://charman-anderson.com/). Kevin kicks off: Journalists and librarians dealing with many of the same issues ? helping people navigate, interpret and understand information. Going to talk about some of the challenges in this area. First playing Xerox video on ?information [...]
Belgian ‘meta-union? catalogue in Belgian. Were real problems with sharing metadata across regions ? political interference meant that not all regions/libraries included. Wanted a ?next gen? OPAC ? various reasons: Users like mouse, not keyboard Surveys show satisfaction is higher than traditional OPAC ? and We ?love? New York public library?s OPAC W3Line developed Samarcande. [...]
This session by Terence Huwe What is meaning-based computing? (MBC) Importance of forecasting probability ? ?how should we modify our beliefs in the light of new information? ? see ?The Theory that would not Die? Sharon Bertsch McGrayne (http://www.librarything.com/work/11186931) Based on Bayesian analysis. What are the applications and potential uses of meaning based computing? Used for code [...]
Rurik Greenall (@brinxmat) with a ?Cheapskates guide to linked open data?. Using ?Gunnerus Library? special collections as an example. Wanted to remove the ?fear experienced when faced by expert interfaces? ? want an interface that contextualises data. Rurik says ?if you?ve created a PDF, you?ve created RDF? ? it?s baked in there by default. Rurik [...]
Lisa Charnock and Andy Land from Mimas/John Rylands University (JRUL) respectively. JISC funded project ?SALT? (Surfacing the Academic Long Tail). JRUL had a lot of usage data. Hypothesis: ?Library circulation activity data can be used to support humanities research by surfacing the long tail ?? So essentially about developing ?recommendation services? Also wanted to look [...]
Dave Pattern (@daveyp) and Bryony Ramsden (@libraryknitgirl) talking about the JISC funded Library Impact data project. Wanted to look at how usage and non-usage of library resources affects degree outcome. Initially looked at University of Huddersfield data only. Examined visits to the library, and found it pretty equal no matter what the outcome (in terms [...]
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