[CODE4LIB] Handbook Linked data for Libraries, Archives and Museums
Hi, Some of you might be interested in the handbook Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums. How to clean, link and publish your metadata which was published with Facet/ALA-Neal Schuman last week. This handbook has been written specifically for people with an LIS/DH background. You will find a short promotional video on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnM3tHWAsSA and the first chapter can be downloaded from http://book.freeyourmetadata.org/. If you're interested in getting a review copy from the publisher, let me know. Kind regards, Seth van Hooland Président du Master en STIC Université libre de Bruxelles http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/ https://twitter.com/sethvanhooland
[CODE4LIB] The lie of the API
Dear all, I guess some of you will be interested in the blogpost of my colleague and co-author Ruben regarding the misunderstandings on the use and abuse of APIs in a digital libraries context, including a description of both good and bad practices from Europeana, DPLA and the Cooper Hewitt museum: http://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2013/11/29/the-lie-of-the-api/ Kind regards, Seth van Hooland Président du Master en Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (MaSTIC) Université Libre de Bruxelles Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50 CP 123 | 1050 Bruxelles http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/ http://twitter.com/#!/sethvanhooland http://mastic.ulb.ac.be 0032 2 650 4765 Office: DC11.102
[CODE4LIB] Tool for Named-Entity Recognition
Dear colleagues, You want to automate the discovery of people, place names and events within a large corpus of unstructured documents or metadata (e.g. description field)? Then you might want to use the Named-Entity Recognition (NER) extension for OpenRefine that has been developed by Multimedia Lab (ELIS — Ghent University / iMinds) and MasTIC (Université Libre de Bruxelles). On http://freeyourmetadata.org/named-entity-extraction/, you will find all the information necessary to start experimenting with NER on your own. The extension was developed specifically in the context of a research paper, entitled Named-Entity Recognition: A Gateway Drug for Cultural Heritage Collections to the Linked Data Cloud?. A preprint of this paper can be found on http://freeyourmetadata.org/publications/named-entity-recognition.pdf. The paper also aims to foster a discussion within the Digital Library community regarding the quality of concepts described in knowledge bases (e.g. Freebase versus DBPedia) and the current struggle between schemes (e.g. schema.org versus Open Graph protocol). We will be presenting our work in North and Latin America in March (Boston), April (New York and Philadelphia), May (Quito) and June (New York and Montreal) so if you're located in one of those cities/areas and interested in collaborating or hosting a workshop on this topic, don't hesitate to get in touch. Kind regards, Seth van Hooland Président du Master en Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (MaSTIC) Université Libre de Bruxelles Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50 CP 123 | 1050 Bruxelles http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/ http://twitter.com/#!/sethvanhooland http://mastic.ulb.ac.be 0032 2 650 4765 Office: DC11.102 Seth van Hooland Président du Master en Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (MaSTIC) Université Libre de Bruxelles Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50 CP 123 | 1050 Bruxelles http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/ http://twitter.com/#!/sethvanhooland http://mastic.ulb.ac.be 0032 2 650 4765 Office: DC11.102
Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone implementing common LIS applications on PaaS providers?
Dear Erik, Bram Wiercx and myself have given a talk on how to put together a package to install CollectiveAccess on Red Hat's OpenShift: http://www.dish2011.nl/sessions/open-source-software-platform-collectiveacces-as-a-service-solution. My students are currently happily playing around with CollectiveAccess, which they have installed on OpenShift. My teaching assistant Max De Wilde has developed clear guidelines on how to run the installation procedure: http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/redhat_ca_install.pdf. It would be wonderful to aggregate these kind of installation procedure's for other types of LIS applications... Kind regards and looking forward to your book! Seth van Hooland Président du Master en Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (MaSTIC) Université Libre de Bruxelles Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50 CP 123 | 1050 Bruxelles http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/ http://twitter.com/#!/sethvanhooland http://mastic.ulb.ac.be 0032 2 650 4765 Office: DC11.113 Le 29 mars 2012 à 14:10, Erik Mitchell a écrit : Hi all, I have been toying with the process of implementing common LIS applications (e.g. Vufind, Dspace, Blacklight. . .) on PaaS providers like Heroku and Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. I have just tried out of the box distributions so far and have not made much progress but was wondering if someone else had tried this or had ideas about what issues I might run into. Thanks, Erik Erik Mitchell Assistant Professor College of Information Studies University of Maryland, College Park http://ischool.umd.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] What tools do you use to manipulate metadata?
Dear Robin, Please have a look at our project http://freeyourmetadata.org/, a platform to explain how to use Google Refine to clean up and reconcile your metadata. Several tutorials, video's and screencast offer hands-on help on how to make the most out of Google Refine, probably one of the best metadata manipulation tools out there. We'll be giving a series of workshops in November and December in Europe (see http://freeyourmetadata.org/join/) and currently we're setting up some dates in the US and Canada from the end of January until March/April, so don't hesitate to contact us if you want us to give a talk at your organization or event. If you're interested in the topic of metadata cleaning and vocabulary reconciliation, please have a look at our paper (http://freeyourmetadata.org/publications/freeyourmetadata.pdf). Kind regards, Seth van Hooland Président du Master en Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (MaSTIC) Université Libre de Bruxelles Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50 CP 123 | 1050 Brussels - Belgium http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~svhoolan/ http://mastic.ulb.ac.be 0032 2 650 4765 Office: DC11.113 Le 18 oct. 2011 à 02:48, Suzanne Pilsk a écrit : Dear Fellow Metadataists (please excuse any duplication but we want to reach a broad group of people), What tools have you found helpful in manipulating your metadata? (For example, people have suggested MARCedit, ImageMagick, and Oxygen.) Are there barriers to using them effectively, such as cost, scripting skills, or technical support? Please share by commenting here: http://lamsmetadata.blogspot.com/2011/10/what-tools-help-you-manipulate-metadata.htmlhttps://webaccess.si.edu/OWA/redir.aspx?C=385d8edcb3f742fca49716b7a23a1e4aURL=http%3a%2f%2flamsmetadata.blogspot.com%2f2011%2f10%2fwhat-tools-help-you-manipulate-metadata.html Or directly to me Or Robin Wendler. We are preparing for the Digital Library Federation Forum workshop and would like to share your ideas! Thanks Suzanne C. Pilsk Head, Metadata Unit Smithsonian Institution Libraries Connecting. Ideas. Information. *You.* 10th Constitution Avenues, NW, NH2207 MRC 154, P.O. Box 37012 Washington, DC 20013-7012 v. 202.633.1646 pil...@si.eduhttps://webaccess.si.edu/OWA/redir.aspx?C=385d8edcb3f742fca49716b7a23a1e4aURL=mailto%3aPilskS%40si.edu Robin Wendler Harvard University Library 90 Mt. Auburn St. Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-3724 r_wend...@harvard.eduhttps://webaccess.si.edu/OWA/redir.aspx?C=385d8edcb3f742fca49716b7a23a1e4aURL=mailto%3ar_wendler%40harvard.edu
