On 13 February 2012 15:57, Nate Vack wrote:
> My take on this discussion, coming from a research lab: Metadata isn't meta.
Well, coming from a publishing and repositories world, my take is
slightly different.
> For example, in recordings of, say, blood pressure over time, it's
> common to think
Hi Chris,
Gremlin is the only Tinkerpop technology we've used so far.
Re the boosting, we've ended up storing the document boost as a neo4j
property on the node, and post-processing the hit list from lucene to get
each node and combine the lucene score with the boost to determine our
final releva
You realize, of course, that discussing the use of the word metametadata could
be described as metametametadata? Which would make my post
metametametametadata. At which point it all turns into silliness (which it
certainly wasn't before... right? :-) ).
Best,
Kåre
> From: Code for Libraries
Genny,
I agree that the actual data is not in the catalog per se, but it IS in a
database somewhere. And the beauty of that digital information (which is where
we are all headed) is that all of it can really now be mashed together to
produce something new. The contents of _A Tale of Two Cities_
My proposal for code4lib on this topic was not selected, but I was invited
to give the same talk at the Berkeley Information School Friday afternoon
seminar last week (but I had about 40 mins rather than 20).
Here are the notes from my talk last Friday:
http://tingletech.github.com/296a-1-2012/
On 2/13/12 1:43 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote:
Hi Patrick,
Thanks. That does make sense. Hopefully others will weigh in with
agreement (or disagreement). Sometimes these semantic languages are so
flexible that it's unsettling. There are a million ways to do something
with only de facto standards ra
Hi Ethan,
I will defer to those with greater insight, into what has been discussed
earlier in this thread, than myself as to some of the semantics you are
trying to crystallise here.
What I can offer instead is a bit of advice as to lubricating the process.
Firstly, stay as far away from XML as
The standard BerkeleyDB library probably changed when you upgraded
Ubuntu, and it complains that the NOID database (written with the old
library) is incompatible.
You should be able to use db_upgrade to convert the NOID database
(NOID/noid.bdb). db_upgrade is a command line utility that comes wi
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Genny Engel wrote:
> You simply can't use the average library catalog to look up Author X's novel
> that starts with the sentence "So a string walks into a bar." The actual
> data (the novel) is not in the catalog (which is composed only of metadata).
That's a
I think this is a rather different situation from the one libraries commonly
deal with, where there is a pretty clear distinction between data representing
the full text of a 189-page book by Author X, and the descriptive data that is
made up by catalogers or publishers, and is not part of Autho
Hey Kent,
Awesome. thanks for the info. So, using gremlin, are you using some of
the other Tinkerpop technologies?
And, haha, in researching stuff this weekend, I actually saw an email
you sent to the neo4j google group about the lucene boosting issue…
I started playing around with RDF.rb , and
Hi Patrick,
Thanks. That does make sense. Hopefully others will weigh in with
agreement (or disagreement). Sometimes these semantic languages are so
flexible that it's unsettling. There are a million ways to do something
with only de facto standards rather than restricted schemas. For what it
Ethan,
The semantics do seem odd there. It doesn't seem like a skos:Concept
would typically link to a metadata record about -- if I'm following you
right -- a specific coin. Is this sort of a FRBRish approach, where your
skos:Concept is similar to the abstraction of a frbr:Work (that is, the
Does anyone here have expertise with Berkeley DB?
I was running an instance of NOID (which uses Berkeley DB) to mint and
resolve ARKs. I updated the OS for the server it was running on from
Ubuntu 9 to Ubuntu 10. Now NOID has stopped working and complains that the
db version doesn't match: "Prog
I got such dirty looks when I used the term "metametadata" to describe
something. ;)
-Kurt
On 02/13/2012 02:39 PM, Becky Yoose wrote:
Could this conversation be described as metametadata?
*runs, hides*
Thanks,
Becky
Could this conversation be described as metametadata?
*runs, hides*
Thanks,
Becky
Bonus: Metacow - http://wisconsin.cowparade.com/cow/detail/3973/
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Richard, Joel M wrote:
> I'll second this "amen". It was only when I entered the library world that
> I learned
I'll second this "amen". It was only when I entered the library world that I
learned about the concept of metadata. Of course, I'd been using metadata for
12 years, but I'd never labeled it as such. To me it was just data. Useful
information. It took time for this concept of metadata to mesh wit
amen!
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Nate Vack wrote:
> My take on this discussion, coming from a research lab: Metadata isn't
> meta.
>
> For example, in recordings of, say, blood pressure over time, it's
> common to think about things such as participant identifiers,
> acquisition dates, ev
Last year I spoke with Jennifer Rosenfeld from Woodbury (@jenro on the
twitters) about her early homebrew attempt at installing iPads as information
look-up devices:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/redbobsled/sets/72157624705494862/detail/
She had lots of practical advice, and would be worth conta
We've bolted an ipad to our circ desk for students to search our course
reserves interface: http://www.tararobertson.ca/diy-kiosk/
The industrial design shop technicians are building a bunch of secure
enclosures for our grad show. I can see if they are willing to share
their design.
Cheers,
Hi All,
I meant to write down the breakout topics from both tues and wed, but
didn't.
Did anyone? And if so, would you forward to me off-list?
I would also like to throw out my thanks to the organizers and others who
made it such a successful and productive conference!
Thanks,
Tim
On Feb 13, 2012, at 10:50 AM, Cynthia Ng wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I was wondering if anyone has implemented (or plan to implement) touch
> screens in their library? We're looking mostly at doing it for
> wayfinding (finding items, rooms, etc.) but I'd definitely be
> interested in hearing about any
Oh, I should amend that article with a comment. I just switched over from
Firefox to Opera because OH MY GOD FIREFOX YOU USED TO BE A GOOD WEB
BROWSER.
Opera actually works pretty well for our implementation -- it has a nice
built in kiosk mode and URL whitelist, and there were minimal changes
req
My take on this discussion, coming from a research lab: Metadata isn't meta.
For example, in recordings of, say, blood pressure over time, it's
common to think about things such as participant identifiers,
acquisition dates, event markers, and sampling rates as "metadata,"
and the actual measureme
NCSU has done some work you might be interested in. See this article:
Lessons in Public Touchscreen Development
by Andreas K. Orphanides
In October 2010, the NCSU Libraries debuted its first public touchscreen
information kiosk, designed to provide on-demand access to useful and commonly
consu
Hi All,
I was wondering if anyone has implemented (or plan to implement) touch
screens in their library? We're looking mostly at doing it for
wayfinding (finding items, rooms, etc.) but I'd definitely be
interested in hearing about any other uses.
What kind of hardware did you choose?
What softw
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Great discussion! My cataloger heart says that you can never have enough,
but my manager brain says that you only have a limited amount of resources
and time to dedicate. ;cD
I agree with Diane saying that metadata is not static. Your use cases will
change in the future due to changed user needs o
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