"Most of the time I'm not sure what I am supposed to be doing so I just make a solution that works"
BINGO. That describes me, and likely others, to a "T". Roy On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Michael Beccaria <mbecca...@paulsmiths.edu> wrote: > I'm a one man shop and sometimes go to these conferences where many of you > brilliant people are making these brilliant solutions making these > ubiquitous black box data services that talk to one another using a > standardized query language and I felt inspired and thought maybe I have > been doing patch work on a job that really ought to be done a better way. > I'm all about the bubble gum and duct tape stuff but I was at a point where > it would have been a good time to migrate to something a little more > robust. I'm getting the impression that for the size of the projects I'm > working on linked data and other similar solutions are very much overkill. > I'll have a PHP script output some custom xml that can be ingested on the > other end and call it a day. Done :-) > > This is also, at least for me, a challenge I have with being a > wear-a-lot-of-hats-and-sometimes-write-code person at a small institution. > Most of the time I'm not sure what I am supposed to be doing so I just make > a solution that works without having others to bounce ideas off of. Thanks > for the support. > > Mike Beccaria > Systems Librarian > Head of Digital Initiative > Paul Smith's College > 518.327.6376 > mbecca...@paulsmiths.edu > Become a friend of Paul Smith's Library on Facebook today! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Riley-Huff, Debra > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2014 11:52 PM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating a Linked Data Service > > I agree with Roy. Seems like something that could be easily handled with > PHP or Python scripts. Someone on the list may even have a homegrown > solution (improved duct tape) they would be happy to share. I fail to see > what the project has to do with linked data or why you would go that route. > > Debra Riley-Huff > Head of Web Services & Associate Professor JD Williams Library University > of Mississippi University, MS 38677 > 662-915-7353 > riley...@olemiss.edu > > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Roy Tennant <roytenn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm puzzled about why you want to use linked data for this. At first > > glance the requirement simply seems to be to fetch data from your ILS > > server, which likely could be sent in any number of simple packages > > that don't require an RDF wrapper. If you are the only one consuming > > this data then you can use whatever (simplistic, proprietary) format > > you want. I just don't see what benefits you would get by creating > > "linked data" in this case that you wouldn't get by doing something > > much more straightforward and simple. And don't be harshing on duct > > tape. Duct tape is a perfectly fine solution for many problems. > > Roy > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Michael Beccaria > > <mbecca...@paulsmiths.edu > > > > > wrote: > > > > > I have recently had the opportunity to create a new library web page > > > and host it on my own servers. One of the elements of the new page > > > that I > > want > > > to improve upon is providing live or near live information on > > > technology availability (10 of 12 laptops available, etc.). That > > > data resides on my ILS server and I thought it might be a good time > > > to upgrade the bubble > > gum > > > and duct tape solution I now have to creating a real linked data > > > service that would provide that availability information to the web > server. > > > > > > The problem is there is a lot of overly complex and complicated > > > information out there onlinked data and RDF and the semantic web > > > etc. and I'm looking for a simple guide to creating a very simple > > > linked data service with php or python or whatever. Does such a > > > resource exist? Any advice on where to start? > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Mike Beccaria > > > Systems Librarian > > > Head of Digital Initiative > > > Paul Smith's College > > > 518.327.6376 > > > mbecca...@paulsmiths.edu > > > Become a friend of Paul Smith's Library on Facebook today! > > > > > >
