Category: Linked Data
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rdf:about=”Linked MARC Codes”
I have been slowly taking the MARC codes lists and modeling them as linked data. I released a handful of them several months ago (geographic area codes, countries and languages) and have added more as I get inspired or have some free time. Most recently, I’ve added the Form of Item, Target Audience and Instruments…
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What we talk about when we talk about http://dbpedia.org/resource/Love
I’ve been accused of several things in the Linked Data community this week: Â a circular reasoner, a defender of the status quo “just because that’s how we’ve always done it”, and (implicitly) an httpRange-14 apologist. Â Quite frankly, none of these are true or quite what I mean (and I’m, of course, over dramatizing the accusations),…
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Getting the whole story
A couple of months ago, I hacked up a really simple proof-of-concept Sinatra that took an LCCN, called the Library of Congress’ LCCN Permalink service’s MARCXML output for that particular LCCN and tried to model it into linked data. It was really basic: it only returned RDF/XML and had no persistence layer to it, so…
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The Concept of Where
There were three main reasons that I took the old lcsh.info data that I had lying around and made http://lcsubjects.org: There were projects (including internal Talis ones) that really wanted to use that data and impatience was growing as to when the Library of Congress would launch id.loc.gov. Leigh Dodds had just released Pho and…
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Linked Open LibraryThing
For Ian Davis‘ birthday, Danny Ayers sent out an email asking people to make some previously unavailable datasets accessible as linked data as Ian’s present. It was a pretty neat idea. One that I wish I had thought of. Given that Ian is my boss (prior to about a month ago, Ian was just nebulously…