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 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 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 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 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 …