For those that don’t about this project, the general purpose is to provide NYT controlled vocabulary and RDF (under creative commons) for use across the web. Very semantic webby… with one result the ability to pull together data from different sites, which meets a certain criteria (about the same person, etc.) In the example application, links to Wikipedia articles about
I’m having trouble with slideshare (and facebook and my email and…) in the meantime, here is the presentation for tonight’s guest lecturer presentation. enjoy!
This takes me up to early June (and dreaming of vacation), but here is what is on my schedule: March 30, 7 pm. Semantic web & metadata (I’m tentatively calling this Semantic Web for Catalogers): Guest Lecturer/VSU MLIS program April 15, 7 pm: Intro to Free Image Editors: Gimp, Aviary & more : UGA Linux Group/Chugalug — — Open to
So, this was MY question today: as in, I wanted to re-post a tweet about moonshine arts & literary magazine. I couldn’t quite remember what I wrote and I didn’t use a #hashtag. So what to do? How do you search your own twitter feed? There are lots of cool trending tools out there, but those are very limited in
http://dlib.org/dlib/january10/hillmann/01hillmann.htmlAbstract“The Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard, due to be released this coming summer, has included since May 2007 a parallel effort to build Semantic Web enabled vocabularies. This article describes thateffort and the decisions made to express the vocabularies for use withinthe library community and in addition as a bridge to the future oflibrary data outside the current MARC-based
“RDA is being developed as a new standard for resource description and access designed for the digital world.” A webinar/presentation about RDA, which the cataloging world has been abuzz about is located here http://tinyurl.com/yexxlyn Also, a couple of demos out (just demos, not product):A small demo example for what “open development” could do:http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/db/wtr/content.htm Very no-frills browsing by rule number, rule
Well, this would seem to be a match made in heaven for the goals of the semantic web — because regardless of the schema and mapping, I think there is going to have be some kind of established form/identity…. and considering my cataloger tendencies (lol), well, I can’t help but love this project…. —————The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) has
Well, this is interesting… some thoughts on a new tool in the google webmaster’s toolbox…. Just goes to show that mining content doesn’t always tell you relevance. Sometimes controlled vocabularies (subject headings) and taxonomies (categories) are a GOOD thing… Sigh… Here is what Google says the keyword significance list is for: Below are the most common keywords Google found when
Arches @ noon. Nov. 30.The 3rd annual Blue Beanie Day will be celebrated on Monday, November 30th, 2009see http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136079874938 On Monday, November 30, 2009 thousands of Standardistas (people who support web standards) will wear a Blue Beanie to show their support for accessible, semantic web content. Join the fun! The 2009 event page is here:http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136079874938 It’s easy to show your
I am so excited about this NYT project — just the kind of thing needed to start moving the semantic web forward … By the way, DBPedia is an attempt to take Wikipedia data and semanticize it… I am kind of in love with linked in data at the moment. Article athttp://tinyurl.com/yhdayvr “Over the last several months we have manually