[CODE4LIB] triple stores ???

2012-05-29 Thread Ravi Shankar
We (DLSS at Stanford Libraries) are planning to use a triple store for storing and retrieving annotations (in RDF) on digital objects. We are currently looking at open-source triple stores such as 4store, Virtuoso, Jena SDB and Mulgara. Are you currently using a triple store or contemplating on

Re: [CODE4LIB] archiving a wiki

2012-05-29 Thread Kåre Fiedler Christiansen
A thing to be careful of when web harvesting a wiki, is that it may harvest mope than you bargained for. Most wikis (I don't know JSPWiki, sorry) can present earlier versions of pages, diffs, indexes, and sometimes the same pages under different URLs. This may or may not be what you want. For

Re: [CODE4LIB] triple stores ???

2012-05-29 Thread Stefano Bargioni
Maybe a G search can help to find comparisons: http://www.google.com/search?sugexp=chrome,mod=4sourceid=chromeie=UTF-8q=4store+Virtuoso+Jena+SDB++Mulgara The result includes your post... added 8 minutes ago. Stefano On 29/mag/2012, at 09.12, Ravi Shankar wrote: We (DLSS at Stanford Libraries)

Re: [CODE4LIB] First draft of patron account API

2012-05-29 Thread Jakob Voss
Hi, I added a recent changes list at http://gbv.github.com/paia/ to easier follow modifications to the PAIA specification. P Williams wrote: I'm very interested in this problem space. Good to see that someone is taking the initiative to try to solve the problem. I guess I'll have to learn

Re: [CODE4LIB] triple stores ???

2012-05-29 Thread Chris Fitzpatrick
Hi Ravi, Yeah, if you haven't seen it yet, take a look at the first link (http://www.w3.org/wiki/LargeTripleStores) in the search results that Stefano included. A big question is if you're going to need reasoning capabilities. If that's the case, you'll probably want to look at the first 3 in

[CODE4LIB] Job: Head of Information Systems at Folger Shakespeare Library

2012-05-29 Thread jobs
Responsible for maintaining the integrity and security of the Folger network and infrastructure, including phone and voice mail systems. Responsible for data security and retention. Responsible for computer operations, including infrastructure, systems, hardware, operational and office operations

Re: [CODE4LIB] How do you get plain language, plain English out of the .sgstn stenograph stenonote record of the public meeting?... [see other message]

2012-05-29 Thread Thomas Dowling
We seem to be developing a folksonomic spectrum running from bacon to--may I suggest--pimento loaf. On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Francis Kayiwa kay...@uic.edu wrote: I am not pleased with one of my favorite meats being used to show disapproval so hard to give you my 1+ -- Thomas

[CODE4LIB] Job: Cataloging/Metadata Librarian at Lehigh University

2012-05-29 Thread jobs
This position is responsible for cataloging and metadata creation for scholarly resources in all formats. The position is accountable for quality bibliographic and metadata records in library systems to ensure discovery and access of scholarly resources. The position oversees training of copy

Re: [CODE4LIB] How do you get plain language, plain English out of the .sgstn stenograph stenonote record of the public meeting?... [see other message]

2012-05-29 Thread Kaile Zhu
Any library on Voyager (Oracle) uses APEX for develop purpose? If so, can you share your experience with me? Or anybody who knows APEX enough to tell me if it is worth time to explore at all. Thanks. - Kelly Zhu **Bronze+Blue=Green** The University of Central Oklahoma is Bronze, Blue, and

[CODE4LIB] Job: Data Extraction Programmer at Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities

2012-05-29 Thread jobs
The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia (http://www.iath.virginia.edu) is seeking a Data Extraction Programmer to design and implement methods for extracting data from Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids and MARC archival descriptions and

Re: [CODE4LIB] triple stores ???

2012-05-29 Thread Ravi Shankar
Thanks, Stefano. The Europeana report seems to be quite comprehensive. It is funny that I've searched earlier for triple store comparisons with more explicit parameters 'rdf triple store comparison', and the Europeana report appeared in the third page of the search results. The 'triple' in the

Re: [CODE4LIB] triple stores ???

2012-05-29 Thread Ethan Gruber
For those using these big triplestores, how are you putting data in? I'm looking for a triplestore which supports SPARQL update. Any comments anyone can add on this interface will be useful. Ethan On May 29, 2012 4:12 PM, Ravi Shankar rshan...@stanford.edu wrote: Thanks, Stefano. The

Re: [CODE4LIB] triple stores ???

2012-05-29 Thread Ravi Shankar
Hi Chris, We were currently leaning towards open-source triple stores. As far as inferencing goes, I suspect we will be doing at least transitive closures on rdfs:subClassOf and rdfs:subPropertyOf properties. I will look into TinkerPop. Are you currently using it, and for what purpose? I am

Re: [CODE4LIB] triple stores ???

2012-05-29 Thread Simon Spero
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Ravi Shankar rshan...@stanford.edu wrote: We were currently leaning towards open-source triple stores. As far as inferencing goes, I suspect we will be doing at least transitive closures on rdfs:subClassOf and rdfs:subPropertyOf properties. I will look into

Re: [CODE4LIB] First draft of patron account API

2012-05-29 Thread Simon Spero
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Jakob Voss jakob.v...@gbv.de wrote: What are your major complaints with NCIP? 2. NCIP is rarely implemented in total, so you never know what you get 2(a) Each implementation is usually of a different subset :-/ One existing protocol that might be

Re: [CODE4LIB] triple stores ???

2012-05-29 Thread Fleming, Declan
Hi Ravi - I'll let some of my more technical folks chime in, but we do a bunch with RDF and have found every triplestore we've tried very limited in handling transactions. Reading and writing at the same time causes a deadlock that's a mess to keep clean. So, we went back where we started and

Re: [CODE4LIB] triple stores ???

2012-05-29 Thread Simon Spero
The latest version of Jena TDB adds atomic transactions (version 0.9.0+) See http://jena.apache.org/documentation/tdb/tdb_transactions.html for documentation: The following limitations are listed: - Bulk loads: the TDB bulk loader is not transactional - Nested transactions are not

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Journal - Call for Proposals

2012-05-29 Thread Ron Peterson
Call for Proposals (and apologies for cross-posting):   The Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) exists to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future.   We are now accepting proposals for publication in our 18th issue. Don't