RDFa and schema.org all the library things

Posted on Fri 30 August 2013 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, Evergreen, coding, evergreen

TLDR: The Evergreen and Koha integrated library systems now express their record details in the schema.org vocabulary out of the box using RDFa.

Individual holdings are expressed as Offer instances per the W3C Schema Bib Extension community group proposal to parallel commercial sales offers. And I have published a …


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RDFa and schema.org all the library things

Posted on Fri 30 August 2013 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, Evergreen, coding, evergreen

TLDR: The Evergreen and Koha integrated library systems now express their record details in the schema.org vocabulary out of the box using RDFa.

Individual holdings are expressed as Offer instances per the W3C Schema Bib Extension community group proposal to parallel commercial sales offers. And I have published a …


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Making the Evergreen catalogue mobile-friendly via responsive CSS

Posted on Mon 22 April 2013 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, Evergreen, coding, evergreen

Back in November the Evergreen community was discussing the desire for a mobile catalogue, and expressed a strong opinion that the right way forward would be to teach the current catalogue to be mobile-friendly by applying principles of responsive design. In fact, I stated:

Almost all of this can be …


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Making the Evergreen catalogue mobile-friendly via responsive CSS

Posted on Mon 22 April 2013 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, Evergreen, coding, evergreen

Back in November the Evergreen community was discussing the desire for a mobile catalogue, and expressed a strong opinion that the right way forward would be to teach the current catalogue to be mobile-friendly by applying principles of responsive design. In fact, I stated:

Almost all of this can be …


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Structured data: making metadata matter for machines

Posted on Fri 12 April 2013 in Linked Open Data • Tagged with Coding, Evergreen, coding, evergreen

Update 2013-04-18: Now with video of the presentation, thanks to the awesome #egcon2013 volunteers!

I've been attending the Evergreen 2013 Conference in beautiful Vancouver. This morning, I was honoured to be able to give a presentation on some of the work I've been doing on implementing linked data via schema …


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Structured data: making metadata matter for machines

Posted on Fri 12 April 2013 in Linked Open Data • Tagged with Coding, Evergreen, coding, evergreen

Update 2013-04-18: Now with video of the presentation, thanks to the awesome #egcon2013 volunteers!

I've been attending the Evergreen 2013 Conference in beautiful Vancouver. This morning, I was honoured to be able to give a presentation on some of the work I've been doing on implementing linked data via schema …


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Introducing SQL to Evergreen administrators, round two

Posted on Sat 16 February 2013 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen, PostgreSQL, evergreen, postgresql

Three years ago I was asked to create and deliver a two-day course introducing SQL to Evergreen users. Things went well and I was able to share the resulting materials with the Evergreen and PostgreSQL community. Perhaps one of my happiest moments at the Evergreen conference last year was when …


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Introducing SQL to Evergreen administrators, round two

Posted on Sat 16 February 2013 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen, PostgreSQL, evergreen, postgresql

Three years ago I was asked to create and deliver a two-day course introducing SQL to Evergreen users. Things went well and I was able to share the resulting materials with the Evergreen and PostgreSQL community. Perhaps one of my happiest moments at the Evergreen conference last year was when …


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Leaving SELinux in enforcing mode with Evergreen on Fedora 17

Posted on Sun 02 September 2012 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen, evergreen

Ever since I switched over to Fedora a few years back (hi Fedora 13!), I've been guilty of a dirty secret: to run Evergreen, I've had to run setenforce 0 to disable the most excellent SELinux security policies before I could start up the Apache web server to serve up …


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Leaving SELinux in enforcing mode with Evergreen on Fedora 17

Posted on Sun 02 September 2012 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen, evergreen

Ever since I switched over to Fedora a few years back (hi Fedora 13!), I've been guilty of a dirty secret: to run Evergreen, I've had to run setenforce 0 to disable the most excellent SELinux security policies before I could start up the Apache web server to serve up …


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