[CODE4LIB] Join us in Mallorca for Elag 2012 in May !!

2012-01-11 Thread Boheemen, Peter van
We are still waiting for more presentation, workshop or bootcamp proposals. Join us in Spain in May and send in your proposals You can find more information at http://www.elag.org Cheers. Peter

[CODE4LIB] Open datasets

2012-01-11 Thread Alexander Johannesen
Hiya, I'm in the middle of creating a meta data management system (including merging and persistent identifier management) for a somewhat different domain (intranets and business integration), but it's based on Topic Maps and so is well suited to other means of meta data handling / mangling. It's

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open datasets

2012-01-11 Thread Thomas Krichel
Alexander Johannesen writes So in order to test the integrity and performance of my system so far I'm wondering if there's a suitable open dataset of bibliographic records that aren't too obscure (meaning, I can find the titles at amazon or Open Library) that you could recommend? More than

[CODE4LIB] FRBR aggravating wotsits (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Calling all Maryland, DC, and Virginia folk Save the Date)

2012-01-11 Thread Simon Spero
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Joshua Gomez jngo...@library.gwu.eduwrote: will be a quick summary of FRBR, and a possible solution for aggregates which opens up a whole 'nother can of worms, but allows for some complex relationships to be described. Any summary of the discussion? I'm

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open datasets

2012-01-11 Thread LeVan,Ralph
http://staff.oclc.org/~levan/PearsTraining/scifi.usmarc has 10,000 marc records in it. They are part of the old SiteSearch system that OCLC released as open source. They date back to 2002 and will not contain any Unicode, if you were hoping to include that as part of your testing. Ralph

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open datasets

2012-01-11 Thread Simon Spero
You can get anything you want At Brewster Kahle's restaurant. http://openlibrary.org/data#bulk_download Simon On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:55 AM, LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org wrote: http://staff.oclc.org/~levan/PearsTraining/scifi.usmarc has 10,000 marc records in it. They are part of the old

Re: [CODE4LIB] Obvious answer to registration limitations

2012-01-11 Thread Jim Safley
I like the idea of a code4lib conference franchise similar to THATCamp: http://thatcamp.org/. I happen to know that Amanda French, THATCamp Coordinator, is interested in talking with the code4lib coordinators about the distributed conference model. Her expertise on the subject would be

Re: [CODE4LIB] Obvious answer to registration limitations

2012-01-11 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
On 1/11/2012 11:31 AM, Jim Safley wrote: I happen to know that Amanda French, THATCamp Coordinator, is interested in talking with the code4lib coordinators about the distributed conference model. Ah, but if you haven't figured it out yet, there pretty much are no such thing as 'code4lib

[CODE4LIB] Crafting MARC records to ePub files

2012-01-11 Thread stuart yeates
I help maintain a website ( http://www.nzetc.org/ ) which publishes texts of reasonably broad interest (Nineteenth Century New Zealand novels, the Official New Zealand War Histories, a couple of literary journals, early New Zealand ethnography, etc). We publish to the web and as ePub (+PDF in

[CODE4LIB] Embedding XHTML into RDF

2012-01-11 Thread Ethan Gruber
Hi all, Suppose I have RDF describing an object, and I would like some fairly free-form human generating description about the object (let's say within dcterms:description). Is it semantically acceptable to have XHTML nested directly in this element or would this be considered uncouth for LOD?

Re: [CODE4LIB] Embedding XHTML into RDF

2012-01-11 Thread Robert Sanderson
You might consider the Content in RDF specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/Content-in-RDF10/ which describes how to do this in a generic fashion, as opposed to stuffing it directly into a string literal. HTH Rob On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: [CODE4LIB] Embedding XHTML into RDF

2012-01-11 Thread Simon Spero
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Suppose I have RDF describing an object, and I would like some fairly free-form human generating description about the object (let's say within dcterms:description). Is it semantically acceptable to have XHTML

[CODE4LIB] Digital Archivist Position - Sleepy Hollow, NY

2012-01-11 Thread Sibyl Schaefer
** Apologies for cross posting ** The Rockefeller Archive Center invites applications for a Digital Archivist position. This individual will oversee the development and management of the Archive Center’s Digital Library, which will consist of digitized archival materials, born-digital archival