Posted on Mon 24 February 2014 in misc • Tagged with Android, FSOSS, android, fsoss
tl;dr Mozilla is building a location service and you can help by running MozStumbler on your Android device.
Last week I drew the blue line from Sudbury to Ottawa you see in the above map by running MozStumbler on my phone as we headed out to celebrate Winterlude. One …
Posted on Fri 21 February 2014 in misc • Tagged with Evergreen, evergreen
Over at the Metadata Matters blog, Diane Hillman wrote Why Are We Waiting for the ILS to Change?, asking (in the context of the difficulties libraries experience in making their systems work with RDA):
What I saw underlying that conversation was the assumption that the only way change could happen …
Posted on Mon 03 February 2014 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, Evergreen, Structured data, coding, evergreen, structured data
Back in August, I mentioned that I taught Evergreen, Koha, and VuFind how to express library holdings in schema.org via the http://schema.org/Offer class. What I failed to mention was how others can do the same with their own library systems (well, okay, I linked to the …
Posted on Mon 03 February 2014 in Linked Open Data • Tagged with Coding, Evergreen, Structured data, coding, evergreen, structured data
On Tuesday, February 4th, I'll be participating in Laurentian University's Research Week lightning talks. Unlike most five-minute lightning talk events in which I've participated, the time limit for each talk tomorrow will be one minute. Imagine 60 different researchers getting up to summarize their research in one minute each, and …
Posted on Thu 30 January 2014 in misc • Tagged with Coding, Evergreen, PHP, Structured data, coding, evergreen, php, structured data
Tuesday was not the greatest day, but at least each setback resulted in a triumph...
First, the periodical proposal for schema.org--that I have poured a good couple of months of effort into--took a step closer to reality when Dan Brickley announced on the public-vocabs list that he had …
Posted on Fri 24 January 2014 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, Structured data, coding, structured data
The following is an email that I sent to the MARC mailing list on January 24, 2014 that might be of interest to those looking to provide better support for linked data in MARC (hopefully as just a transitional step):
In the spirit of making it possible to express linked …
Posted on Tue 21 January 2014 in misc • Tagged with Coding, Structured data, coding, structured data
Last week I was putting the finishing touches on the first serious academic paper I have written in a long time, and decided that I wanted to provide backup for some of the assertions I had made. Naturally, the deadline was tight, so getting any articles via interlibrary loan was …
Posted on Tue 21 January 2014 in misc • Tagged with Evergreen, Structured data, evergreen, structured data
Yesterday I tested, signed off, and pushed a bunch of bug fixes for the Evergreen library system. Not going to lie; I'm hoping that by clearing up some of the backlog, a few of my own code contributions (like "Add per-library info pages with schema.org structured data support" and …
Posted on Thu 31 October 2013 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, coding
I released File_MARC 1.0.1 yesterday after receiving a bug report from the most excellent Mark Jordan about a basic (but data corrupting) problem that had existed since the very early days (almost seven years ago). If you generate MARC binary output from File_MARC, you should upgrade …
Posted on Thu 17 October 2013 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, Structured data, coding, structured data
I submitted the following proposal to the Library Technology Conference 2014 and thought it might be of general interest.
Structuring library data on the web with schema.org: we're on it!
Abstract
Until recently, there has been a disappointing level of adoption of schema.org structured data in traditional core …