Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data endpoints
Setting aside the issue of disambiguation, dbpedia provides a linked data interface to the content of wikipedia. Connecting that to your XML is just a question of the document model you use. If you want to know whether endpoint a is the same as endpoint b in the linked data world you can try the sameas service. On 16 May 2011, at 15:37, Jon Gorman jonathan.gor...@gmail.com wrote: Just to clarify, are you picturing some sort of feedback loop? I'm just trying to get a better picture of the process (sounds like an interesting project). In other words, do you have something like: 1) take in a full-text document (like, say, a novel?) 2) Run it through NER, pull out locations, places, things. 3) Have a user who's read the novel (or perhaps display those words in context?) go through each the locations and pick a lat long using Google Maps as an interface. (Ie says this Dublin is Dublin, OH not Dublin, Ireland). 4) Do something similar with names, only using some sort of resource like dbpedia to display possible individuals? 5) markup the original file in an XML doc w/ identifiers around those occurrences? Is that what you're picturing? Jon G. Who doesn't really know enough about linked data to contribute, but is interested nonetheless.
[CODE4LIB] our Mendeley API contest is now live
Hi Everyone. As I mentioned at my CODE4LIB presentation, we are launching a $10,001 API contest for apps built with the Mendeley API. This has not been announced. You can get more info here: http://dev.mendeley.com/ If anyone has any specific questions let me know! - Ian -- Ian Mulvany | VP New Product Development http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/ian-mulvany/ Mendeley Limited | London, UK | www.mendeley.com Registered in England and Wales | Company Number 6419015
[CODE4LIB] WIND and CAS
Columbia has this very specific framework for developing applications, it's called WIND http://www.columbia.edu/acis/rad/authmethods/wind/index.html#d0e37 Is this just a name for another form of login system, or is it really a totally independent piece of architecture? - Ian -- Ian Mulvany | VP New Product Development http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/ian-mulvany/ Mendeley Limited | London, UK | www.mendeley.com Registered in England and Wales | Company Number 6419015
Re: [CODE4LIB] Ranking factors for library resources: Who really uses what?
In Mendeley we are using number of readers to rank search results on our catalog. Our search index is in solr. I don't have more fine grained details, but I could get them if people are interested. - Ian On 16 February 2011 14:21, LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org wrote: As you pointed out, WorldCat does all sorts of tricky ranking. I believe there's a dashboard that they use for tuning the ranking. Library holdings count, term frequencies, availability, FRBR, and locality are all facets of that ranking. In OCLC Research we do practically nothing without some sort of ranking. In our VIAF project, we gather name authority records from 20-some national libraries and merge matching records into a single VIAF record. We rank search results by the size of the records, figuring that the larger a record is, the more attention the component records got from the national libraries and that size can be used as an indirect measure of popularity. In WorldCat Identities, we create author records from WorldCat data. Simple SRU searches are ranked by the total number of items held in libraries for that author. There is also a fuzzy name searching service for WorldCat Identities that uses a combination of holdings and similarity to rank results. We use WorldCat holdings information for ranking wherever we can. For instance, our FAST subject headings database returns results ranked by holdings. We've never done any usability testing on these ranking algorithms as they are simply clearly superior to no ranking at all. Ralph -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Till Kinstler ... So, if you implemented something beyond term statistics based ranking, speak up and show. -- Ian Mulvany | VP New Product Development http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/ian-mulvany/ Mendeley Limited | London, UK | www.mendeley.com Registered in England and Wales | Company Number 6419015
