[CODE4LIB] theinfo.org: for people who work with big data sets
Hi code4libbers! As part of my work on Open Library, I've been doing what I expect a lot of you find yourself doing: collecting big batches of MARC records, testing algorithms for processing them, building interesting ways to visualize them. And what I've found is that while the community of other people doing this in libraries is really valuable, I also have a lot to learn from people who do this sort of thing with other types of data. So I'm trying to build a code4lib-style community around people who work with large data sets of all kinds: http://theinfo.org/ I hope that you'll take a look and join the mailing lists and get involved. I think that there's a lot we could do together.
Re: [CODE4LIB] theinfo.org: for people who work with big data sets
On Jan 16, 2008 7:08 AM, Aaron Swartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://theinfo.org/ Excellent initiative! Joined, and I'll forward the information around to other communities I know do this type of work. Regards, Alex -- --- Project Wrangler, SOA, Information Alchemist, UX, RESTafarian, Topic Maps -- http://shelter.nu/blog/
Re: [CODE4LIB] theinfo.org: for people who work with big data sets
At Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:08:23 -0800, Aaron Swartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi code4libbers! As part of my work on Open Library, I've been doing what I expect a lot of you find yourself doing: collecting big batches of MARC records, testing algorithms for processing them, building interesting ways to visualize them. And what I've found is that while the community of other people doing this in libraries is really valuable, I also have a lot to learn from people who do this sort of thing with other types of data. So I'm trying to build a code4lib-style community around people who work with large data sets of all kinds: http://theinfo.org/ I hope that you'll take a look and join the mailing lists and get involved. I think that there's a lot we could do together. Hi Aaron al. Looks like a great project. Thanks also for plugging the WARC format. I added a bit to the wiki on this. I have a bit of trouble differentiating this from the Linking Open Data project[1]. Perhaps some info on the wiki about this would be helpful. best, Erik Hetzner 1. http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData ;; Erik Hetzner, California Digital Library ;; gnupg key id: 1024D/01DB07E3 pgpGvb167wtCL.pgp Description: PGP signature
