Well, I am in the same boat as you and my thought was, although it might be overkill, it might also be a good, small scale opportunity to experiment with something new and learn a new technology. Sometimes we have to take those learning opportunities where we can get them.
Laura Sent from my iPad > On Aug 7, 2014, at 5:55 AM, Michael Beccaria <mbecca...@paulsmiths.edu> wrote: > > I'm a one man shop and sometimes go to these conferences where many of you > brilliant people are making these brilliant solutions making these ubiquitous > black box data services that talk to one another using a standardized query > language and I felt inspired and thought maybe I have been doing patch work > on a job that really ought to be done a better way. I'm all about the bubble > gum and duct tape stuff but I was at a point where it would have been a good > time to migrate to something a little more robust. I'm getting the impression > that for the size of the projects I'm working on linked data and other > similar solutions are very much overkill. I'll have a PHP script output some > custom xml that can be ingested on the other end and call it a day. Done :-) > > This is also, at least for me, a challenge I have with being a > wear-a-lot-of-hats-and-sometimes-write-code person at a small institution. > Most of the time I'm not sure what I am supposed to be doing so I just make a > solution that works without having others to bounce ideas off of. Thanks for > the support. > > Mike Beccaria > Systems Librarian > Head of Digital Initiative > Paul Smith's College > 518.327.6376 > mbecca...@paulsmiths.edu > Become a friend of Paul Smith's Library on Facebook today! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Riley-Huff, Debra > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2014 11:52 PM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating a Linked Data Service > > I agree with Roy. Seems like something that could be easily handled with PHP > or Python scripts. Someone on the list may even have a homegrown solution > (improved duct tape) they would be happy to share. I fail to see what the > project has to do with linked data or why you would go that route. > > Debra Riley-Huff > Head of Web Services & Associate Professor JD Williams Library University of > Mississippi University, MS 38677 > 662-915-7353 > riley...@olemiss.edu > > >> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Roy Tennant <roytenn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I'm puzzled about why you want to use linked data for this. At first >> glance the requirement simply seems to be to fetch data from your ILS >> server, which likely could be sent in any number of simple packages >> that don't require an RDF wrapper. If you are the only one consuming >> this data then you can use whatever (simplistic, proprietary) format >> you want. I just don't see what benefits you would get by creating >> "linked data" in this case that you wouldn't get by doing something >> much more straightforward and simple. And don't be harshing on duct >> tape. Duct tape is a perfectly fine solution for many problems. >> Roy >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Michael Beccaria >> <mbecca...@paulsmiths.edu >> wrote: >> >>> I have recently had the opportunity to create a new library web page >>> and host it on my own servers. One of the elements of the new page >>> that I >> want >>> to improve upon is providing live or near live information on >>> technology availability (10 of 12 laptops available, etc.). That >>> data resides on my ILS server and I thought it might be a good time >>> to upgrade the bubble >> gum >>> and duct tape solution I now have to creating a real linked data >>> service that would provide that availability information to the web server. >>> >>> The problem is there is a lot of overly complex and complicated >>> information out there onlinked data and RDF and the semantic web >>> etc. and I'm looking for a simple guide to creating a very simple >>> linked data service with php or python or whatever. Does such a >>> resource exist? Any advice on where to start? >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Mike Beccaria >>> Systems Librarian >>> Head of Digital Initiative >>> Paul Smith's College >>> 518.327.6376 >>> mbecca...@paulsmiths.edu >>> Become a friend of Paul Smith's Library on Facebook today! >>
