Hi,
Recently I had the vision of a kind of DBLP for the field of library and
information science. There are some commercial bibliographic databases
like Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), INFODATA, some
public repositories like E-LIS, some open bibliographic databases like
DABI (Ge
Hi,
We are developing a general API management tool to provide different
APIs (unAPI, SRU, OAI-PMH...) with different record formats (MARC, MODS,
DC...) to our databases. We now stumbled upon some confusion regarding
XML formats. The basic question is "what is a format and how do you
refer to
Hi Rob,
> This is just a rehash of a previous discussion on this list, between
> us:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg05309.html
>
> So I guess I'm wasting my time ;)
Thanks, I added a link to the previous discussion. You wrote:
Referring to your blog post, you can s
g Northern Ireland
- The Kingdom of Great Britain (1707 to 1801)
- The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801 to 1922)
- etc.
I gave a talk about the fruitless attempt to put reality in terms of
Semantic Web at Wikimania 2007 (stating with slide 12):
http://www.slideshare.net/NCurse/
Hi,
The current issue of Ariadne (http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue57/) which
has just been published contains an article about the "SeeAlso"
linkserver protocol:
Jakob Voß: "SeeAlso: A Simple Linkserver Protocol", Ariadne Issue 57,
2008. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue57/voss/
SeeAlso combine
ary 2nd:
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc/rdadraftcomments.html
It would be a pitty if RDA is an irrelevant anachronism from the
beginning just because it is not published the way standards need to be
published on the Web.
Greetings
Jakob Voss
[1] http://www.collectionscanada.gc.c
Joachim Neubert wrote:
Has anybody built a conversion from PICA+ to MODS and is willing to
share the code?
First there is not one PICA+ but different variants like there are
different MARC variants. Second the most PICA+ to anything conversions
that I know use the "FCV" conversion language t
Hi,
I summarized my thoughts about identifiers for data formats in a blog
posting: http://jakoblog.de/2009/05/10/who-identifies-the-identifiers/
In short it’s not a technology issue but a commitment issue and the
problem of identifying the right identifiers for data formats can be
reduced to
Hi Rob,
You wrote:
A format should be described with a schema (XML Schema, OWL etc.) or at
least a standard. Mostly this schema already has a namespace or similar
identifier that can be used for the whole format.
This is unfortunately not the case.
It is mostly the case - but people like t
Ross Singer wrote:
http://unapi.info/";>
http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"/>
I generally agree with this, but what about formats that aren't XML or
RDF based? How do I also say that you can grab my text/x-vcard? Or
my application/marc record? There is still lots of data I want that
doesn't nec
Ross Singer wrote:
For vCard there is an RDF namespace and a (not very nice) XML
namespace: http://www.w3.org/2001/vcard-rdf/3.0#
vcard-temp (see http://xmpp.org/registrar/namespaces.html)
This is vCard as RDF, not vCard the format (which is text based). It
would be the equivalent of saying, "
Hi,
I just wanted to announce that I finished a reference implementation of
the Document Availability Information API (DAIA) as CPAN module at
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DAIA. More information about DAIA can be
found in the specification at http://purl.org/NET/DAIA and at
http://www.gbv.d
Hi,
I'd just like to announce that we moved our DAIA related resources [1]
to SourceForge:
http://daia.sourceforge.net/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/daia/
http://daia.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/daia/
DAIA is a data model to express information about the availability of
documents and thei
Hi Tim,
you wrote:
Unless someone can come up with a perfect pre-cooked format—one that
not only covers what we need but is also super easy and
space-efficient (we have only 1/2k to use!)—Why don't we just decide
on:
'simplebib' : {
}
and start filling in fields. I don't think it makes sense
Hi
it's funny how quickly you vote against BibTeX, but at least it is a
format that is frequently used in the wild to create citations. If you
call BibTeX undocumented and garbage then how do you call MARC which is
far more difficult to make use of?
My assumption was that there is a specific
Ed Summers wrote:
II. Description: To nicely show which publication someone refers to.
I think this is right. I wonder, would you consider a potential use
case for Description to also provide machine readable data for a
resource when a standard identifier is not known?
There are lookup servi
Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
Jakob Voss wrote:
I. Identifiy publication => this can *only* be done seriously with
identifiers like ISBN, DOI, OCLCNum, LCCN etc.
Ah, but for better or for worse, that's not the world we live in. We
have LOTS of publications that either lack such ide
Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
Call me pedantic but if you do not have an identifier than there is no
hope to identity the publication by means of metadata. You only
*describe* it with metadata and use additional heuristics (mostly
search engines) to hopefully identify the publication based on the
Dear Tim,
you wrote:
So this is my recommended framework for proceeding. Tim, I'm afraid
you'll actually have to do the hard work yourself.
No, I don't. Because the work isn't fundamentally that hard. A
complex standard might be, but I never for a moment considered
anything like that. We have
Eric Hellman wrote:
What I hope for is that OpenURL 1.0 eventually takes a place
alongside SGML as a too-complex standard that directly paves the way
for a universally adopted foundational technology like XML. What I
fear is that it takes a place alongside MARC as an anachronistic
standard that
Eric Hellman wrote:
May I just add here that of all the things we've talked about in
these threads, perhaps the only thing that will still be in use a
hundred years from now will be Unicode. إن شاء الله
Stuart Yeates wrote:
> Sadly, yes, I agree with you on this.
>
> Do you have any idea how
Stuart Yeates wrote:
A great deal of heat has been vented in this thread, and at least a
little light.
I'd like to invite everyone to contribute to the wikipedia page at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenURL in the hopes that it evolves into a
better overview of the protocol, the ecosystem an
Hi Stuart,
These have been included because they are in widespread use in a current
written culture. The problems I personally have are down to characters
used by a single publisher in a handful of books more than a hundred
years ago. Such characters are explicitly excluded from Unicode.
In
Owen wrote:
Although part of the problem is that you might want to offer any service on
the basis of an OpenURL the major use case is supply of a document (either
online or via ILL) - so it strikes me you could look at DAIA
http://www.gbv.de/wikis/cls/DAIA_-_Document_Availability_Information_API
Karen Coyle wrote:
It's a shame. I can see the reasons why the committee took it the way
they did, but the whole exercise has ended up smelling of architecture
astronautics. See this column if you're not familiar with the term,
it's a good read:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/f
David Kane wrote:
Anyone got any suggestions?
I am liking LibraryFind at the moment, but am not sure if anyone is using
it. Has anyone else got experience with this or any other federated search
programs?
How about YaCy (see http://yacy.net/oai.html). Or did you mean
"metasearch" instead of
On 07.06.2010 16:15, Jay Luker wrote:
Hi all,
I found this thread rather interesting and figured I'd try and revive
the convo since apparently some things have been happening in the
twitter annotation space in the past month. I just read on techcrunch
that testing of the annotation features will
Hi,
I stumbled upon this messaage from Galen Charlton from March this year:
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Jonathan Rochkind
wrote:
Plus'ing it is one thing, but I have no idea what such a thing
would actually look like (interface-wise), or how it would be
accomplished. I'm not sure what it
On 15.06.2010 16:36, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
cql-ruby is a ruby gem for parsing CQL, and serializing parse trees back
to CQL, to xCQL, or to a solr query.
A new version has been released, 0.8.0, available from gem update/install.
The new version improves greatly on the #to_solr serialization
Hi,
I do not know which is the best place to ask and the topic is a bit
sensible but maybe one of you know more. Frustrated by the lack of
libraries to quickly deliver some academic articles from the 1970s that
have only been published in digitized form on CD-ROM and DVD I thought
about the u
Hi,
is there an established classification of loan types, preferable as
Ontology with URIs for each type? I am not sure about the English
terminology with terms such as "loan", "hold" and "recall". In
particular I am looking for a simple (!) list of types for current
relationships between a patron
Hi,
In the last month we worked on specification of a patron account API
(PAIA) because existing (or more: non-existing) APIs such as NCIP and
SLNP don't fit our needs (most of all: simplicity, strict definitions,
and decoupling of authorization and access). The API is based on DLF-ILS
recommendat
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
Hi,
I just stubled upon the new RFC 5005 about Feed Paging and Archiving. As
far as I understand ATOM with the archived feeds extension can be an
alternative to OAI-PMH. As I summarized in my blog you could map between
the two format:
http://jakoblog.de/2007/10/19/archiving-weblogs-with-atom-and
Ed Summers wrote:
Thanks for posting this Jakob. I was just reading RFC 5005 on the
train yesterday (literally) and the parallels between it and OAI-PMH
struck me as well. It's not quite clear to me how deleted records
would be handled with an atom archive feed. But I guess one could
assume if t
Hi Ed,
You wrote:
I completely agree. When developing software it's really important to
focus on the cleanest/clearest solution, rather than getting bogged
down in edge cases and the comments from nay sayers. I hope that my
response didn't come across that way.
:-)
A couple follow on quest
Hi Clay,
I completely agree with everything you just wrote, especially about
Atom + APP being more than just a technology for blogs. APP is a
great lightweight alternative to WebDAV, and promising for all sorts
of data transfer. The fact that it has developer groundswell is a
huge plus. Durin
Peter wrote:
Also, re: blog mirroring, I highly recommend the current discussions
floating aroung the blogosphere regarding distributed source control (Git,
Mercurial, etc.). It's a fundamental paradigm shift from centralized
control to distributed control that points the way toward the future
Hi Emily,
You asked for a protocol for obtaining holdings. I recently thought
about the same topic too. I copy my reply to the CODE4LIB mailing list
because it contains some technical implementations that might be more of
interest to other developers. You wrote:
Sorry for the repost. I just wan
Hi Joe,
You wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Jakob Voss wrote:
Someone just has to define was 'holding' is and what information it must
carry, so we can define a simple holding interchange format that is not
as fuzzy and overblown as most of the library most other library
standards. As
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