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I have it on good authority that Keynote Speaker voting closes in 4
days. This serves as a last reminder here to go rig the elections.
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Cheers,
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Hi David,
I am posting a reply from Patricia Harpring. Managing Editor, Getty
Vocabularies
Regards,
Joe Shubitowski
Getty Research Institute
>>>
David,
You ask a good question. At the Getty Vocabulary Program, we recommend
that you concatenate a recommended Label to identify the pla
All,
I'm currently putting together the schedule for the October 17th Code4Lib
Mid-Atlantic kickoff meeting
(http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Code4lib_Mid-Atlantic) and have a few slots
left for presentations. If you'll be in the Philadelphia/Tri-State area on
October 17th and have a in
This may be of interest...
Are you using new and emerging technologies in innovative ways to help your
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From the examples you've given how about:
1. Start with the first (most detailed) element in the hieararchy.
2. Moving up the hieararchy, add on the first "inhabited place" found,
if any.
3. Continuing to move up the hieararchy, add on the first "nation"
found, if any.
On 9/17/2012 3:12 PM,
I use Geonames for this sort of thing a lot. With cities and
administrative divisions being offered in a machine-readable format, it's
pretty easy to encode places in a format that adheres to AACR2 or other
cataloging rules. There are of course problems disambiguating city names
when no country i
On Sep 17, 2012, at 3:12 PM, wrote:
> But I'm having trouble coming up with an algorithm that can consistently spit
> these out in the form we'd want to display given the data available in TGN.
A dense but rich, just-published article from D-Lib Magazine about geocoding --
Fulltext Geocoding
We use the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names for coding place names in our
museum and archival cataloguing systems. We're currently struggling with the
best way to display and make these terms searchable in our online database.
Currently we're just displaying the term itself, which is flawed,
We recently wrapped up a project to develop a set of components for SEASR
to do TEI analysis[1]. There are a couple of ways to call SEASR flows -
you can either use ZigZag[2] to script flow construction & execution, or
you can set up a flow as a web service using their web service endpoint
compone
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With just a week to go we've still got some tickets for edUi 2012 (
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repeat that success again this year. We still have space in three of our
workshops: LeanUX, jQuery, Web Accessibility (one is included with your
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