Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating a Linked Data Service

2014-08-07 Thread Roy Tennant
Most of the time I'm not sure what I am supposed to be doing so I just make a solution that works BINGO. That describes me, and likely others, to a T. Roy On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Michael Beccaria mbecca...@paulsmiths.edu wrote: I'm a one man shop and sometimes go to these conferences

Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating a Linked Data Service

2014-08-07 Thread Ethan Gruber
I agree with others saying linked data is overkill here. If you don't have an audience in mind or a specific purpose for implementing linked data, it's not worth it. On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Jason Stirnaman jstirna...@kumc.edu wrote: Mike, Check out http://json-ld.org/,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating a Linked Data Service

2014-08-07 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
I’m not for bubble gum and duct tape. But I also realize that when I’ve got a hammer everything begins to look like a nail. After having made those two ambiguous statements I would ask myself, “What is the problem I am trying to solve?” If you want to make your data available in a linked data

Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating a Linked Data Service

2014-08-07 Thread Michael Beccaria
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating a Linked Data Service

2014-08-07 Thread Jason Stirnaman
Mike, Check out http://json-ld.org/, http://json-ld.org/primer/latest/, and https://github.com/digitalbazaar/pyld But, if you haven't yet sketched out a model for *your* data, then the LD stuff will just be a distraction. The information on Linked Data seems overly complex because trying to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating a Linked Data Service

2014-08-07 Thread Justin Coyne
Making a simple solution that works is often a great learning opportunity. However, if you have a problem, there's likely others who have the same problem and have already solved it. If you use the existing solutions, patterns and standards, then you are able to hand your project to someone else

Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating a Linked Data Service

2014-08-07 Thread Scott Prater
Echoing others... the use case for linked data appears to be making data available to the world at large, unknown consumers, who may find a use for it that you never imagined. Name authority services (like VIAF), catalogs of public resources, map data -- all these are good candidates for a

[CODE4LIB] Job: Systems Librarian at Town of Mansfield, Connecticut

2014-08-07 Thread jobs
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[CODE4LIB] Deepfreeze Cloud and computer speeds

2014-08-07 Thread Wilhelmina Randtke
Would installing Deepfreeze Cloud clients onto a computer have any effect on speed? For example, might Deepfreeze Cloud be checking in with the server waiting for a response and adding a little time onto things like starting up and starting applications? -Wilhelmina Randtke

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2014-08-07 Thread jobs
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Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating a Linked Data Service

2014-08-07 Thread Laura Krier
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