Goethe erklärt das Semantic Web
Seit Google vor einigen Tagen den “Knowledge Graph” vorgestellt hat, rumort es in der Semantic Web Community. Klaut Google doch einfach Ideen und Techniken die seit Jahren unter der Bezeichnung “Linked...
View ArticleFirst draft of Patrons Account Information API (PAIA)
Integrated Library Systems often lack open APIs or existing services are difficult to reuse because of access restrictions, complexity, and poor documentations. This also applies to patron information,...
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Why do Wikimedia projects fail to deliver open content?
From time to time I’d like to link to a famous quotation. I then remember Wikiquote, a wiki-based “quote compendium” similar to Wikipedia, also run by the Wikimedia Foundation. Or I’d like to link to a...
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Bibliographies of data repositories
Databib, a proposed bibliography of research data repositories is calling for editors. These editors shall review submissions and edits to the bibliography. There is already an advisory board, giving...
View ArticleSWIB + MTSR = SSSO
On my flight back from the Metadata and Semantics Research conference (MTRS) I thought how to proceed with an RDF encoding of patron information, which I had presented before at the Sematic Web in...
View ArticleAccess to library accounts for better user experience
I just stumbled upon ReadersFirst, a coalition of (public) libraries that call for a better user experience for library patrons, especially to access e-books. The libraries regret that the products...
View ArticleDead End Electronic Resource Citation (ERC)
Tidying up my PhD notes, I found this short rant about “Electronic Resource Citation”. I have not used it anywhere, so I publish it here, licensed under CC-BY-SA. Electronic Resource Citation (ERC) was...
View ArticleOn the way to a library ontology
I have been working for some years on specification and implementation of several APIs and exchange formats for data used in, and provided by libraries. Unfortunately most existing library standards...
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My PhD thesis about data
I have finally received paper copies of my PhD thesis “Describing Data Patterns”, published and printed via CreateSpace. The full PDF has already been archived as CC-BY-SA, but a paper print may still...
View ArticleTesting command line apps with App::Cmd
This posting has also been published at blogs.perl.org. Ricardo Signes’ App::Cmd has been praised a lot so I gave it a try for my recent command line app. In summary, the module is great although I...
View ArticleAbbreviated URIs with rdfns
Working with RDF and URIs can be annoying because URIs such as “http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title” are long and difficult to remember and type. Most RDF serializations make use of namespace...
View ArticleSome thoughts on IIIF and Metadata
Yesterday at DINI AG Kim Workshop 2017 I Martin Baumgartner and Stefanie Rühle gave an introduction to the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) with focus on metadata. I already knew...
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Introduction to Phabricator at Wikimedia Hackathon
This weekend I participate at Wikimedia Hackathon in Vienna. I mostly contribute to Wikidata related events and practice the phrase "long time no see", but I also look into some introductionary talks....
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Wikidata documentation on the 2017 Hackathon in Vienna
At Wikimedia Hackathon 2017, a couple of volunteers sat together to work on the help pages of Wikidata. As part of that Wikidata documentation sprint. Ziko and me took a look at the Wikidata glossary....
View ArticleData models age like parents
Denny Vrandečić, employed as ontologist at Google, noticed that all six of of six linked data applications linked to 8 years ago (IWB, Tabulator, Disko, Marbles, rdfbrowser2, and Zitgist) have...
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