Hi all, Of possible interest to anyone in the Washington DC area . . .
On February 13th at noon in Room 2119 of the Hornbake Library on the University of Maryland College Park campus, Seth van Hooland, Max De Wilde and Ruben Verborgh will coordinate a workshop creating Linked Open Data using common tools. The workshop will feature the work that the presenters have published at http://freeyourmetadata.org and is free and open to the public. To participate in the workshop please bring a laptop with Google Refine <http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/> installed For more information, please visit http://ipac.umd.edu/news-and-events/special-event-free-your-metadata-why-does-it-matter . For information on getting to the UMD College Park campus and parking please see http://www.transportation.umd.edu/. -- Erik Mitchell, PhD Assistant Professor College of Information Studies University of Maryland, College Park http://erikmitchell.info.