[CODE4LIB] Access 2009 Conference

2009-05-14 Thread Paul Pound
Apologies for cross-posting... The Access 2009 Conference clock is officially ticking down and the conference team is working hard to bring you the best program and social events possible. The dates of the best little library tech conference anywhere are Thursday Oct 1 - Saturday October 3,

Re: [CODE4LIB] One Data Format Identifier (and Registry) to Rule Them All

2009-05-14 Thread Mike Taylor
Alexander Johannesen writes: Anyway, I'm suspecting I don't see what the problem seems to be. To create the best identifier for things seems a bit of a strange notion to me, but is this based on that there is only (or rather, that you're trying to create) one identifier for any one thing?

Re: [CODE4LIB] One Data Format Identifier (and Registry) to Rule Them All

2009-05-14 Thread Rob Sanderson
RDF is fine with one 'thing' having multiple identifiers, it just hands the problem up a level to the application to deal with. For example, the owl:sameAs predicate is used to express that the subject and object are the same 'thing'. Then the application can infer that if a owl:sameAs b, and a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Formats and its identifiers

2009-05-14 Thread Mike Taylor
Rob is correct on all points. Namespace URIs can, in some cases, be overloaded to function as schema identifiers. But they absolutely can't be used blindly in this way for arbitrary formats -- there are all kinds of potential gotchas. That being so, I think it is wiser and more explicit _always_

Re: [CODE4LIB] One Data Format Identifier (and Registry) to Rule Them All

2009-05-14 Thread Alexander Johannesen
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 17:35, Rob Sanderson azar...@liverpool.ac.uk wrote: For example, the owl:sameAs predicate is used to express that the subject and object are the same 'thing'.  Then the application can infer that if a owl:sameAs b, and a x y, then b x y. Yes, but there's a snag; as RDF

[CODE4LIB] RIRI 2009 Open for Registration

2009-05-14 Thread Paul Pound
Apologies for cross-posting: Register now for the 2009 Red Island Repository Institute on Prince Edward Island - July 20-24. Reserve your spot at the Fedora-focused Repository Institute on Prince Edward Island, one of Canada’s premiere travel destinations known for its sandy beaches,

Re: [CODE4LIB] One Data Format Identifier (and Registry) to Rule Them All

2009-05-14 Thread Alexander Johannesen
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 17:45, Rob Sanderson azar...@liverpool.ac.uk wrote: I'll quote Mike (and most common approaches to the problem):        Don't Do That Then. :) Oh, for sure. :) But these are very subtle things that are hard to understand, and certainly the long-term implications, so

Re: [CODE4LIB] One Data Format Identifier (and Registry) to Rule Them All

2009-05-14 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
[ /me is creating an email filter/rule against the Code4Lib mailing list to automatically delete messages whose subject lines contain One Data Format Identifier because he has acquired carpal tunnel syndrome after pressing the delete key so often. ] -- Earache Least Moron

[CODE4LIB] symposium on mass digitization

2009-05-14 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
[Please excuse the cross-postings. --ELM] The Hesburgh Libraries of the University of Notre Dame is sponsoring a mini-symposium on the topic of mass digitization one week from today, Thursday, May 21 from 1 - 4:30. You are invited. The purpose of the symposium it to discuss, learn, and

[CODE4LIB] openurl.info ?

2009-05-14 Thread Walker, David
It appears that the openurl.info domain name has expired. I get an error from the host: http://www.openurl.info/registry/docs/mtx/info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx I've been using the registry at OCLC as a reference source for OpenURL. But all of the identifiers and links pointing to openurl.info

[CODE4LIB] Review of Daniel Tunkelang's new book: Faceted Search

2009-05-14 Thread Sol Lederman
Hi, I've written a review of Daniel Tunkelang's (Chief Scientist at Endeca) soon-to-be-released book on Faceted Search:

Re: [CODE4LIB] openurl.info ?

2009-05-14 Thread Klein, Michael
openurl.info's domain registration looks up to date...Registered to NISO through 12-May-2010. Last updated 10-May-2009. I'm going to speculate (with very little basis) that someone managed to hijack the DNS by pointing the record's name server entries somewhere other than where they're supposed to

Re: [CODE4LIB] openurl.info ?

2009-05-14 Thread Sol Lederman
I wouldn't assume that the DNS entry has been hijacked. I very recently had this same experience with a domain I work on. It got redirected to a parking page. I thought it had been hijacked. It turned out that the hosting provider had accidentally changed the IP address associated with the domain

[CODE4LIB] Diebold-o-tron-o-matic IG

2009-05-14 Thread Ross Singer
Hi everybody. We're probably 6 months (or less) from the voting season in Code4libya and I want to preemptively counter the catcalls, jeers, the calls for the Drupal voting module, etc. prior to 4 days before the first vote opening. So, if you're interested in participating in this, let me know.