Re: [CODE4LIB] Describe sub-collections in DCAT - advice very much appreciated

2016-07-06 Thread Ethan Gruber
Sorry, to be a little more constructive: If you can describe the difference between Europeana's functionality now and your vision for your CKAN implementation, that would be helpful for providing advice. On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > Are these GLAMs also

Re: [CODE4LIB] Describe sub-collections in DCAT - advice very much appreciated

2016-07-06 Thread Ethan Gruber
Are these GLAMs also putting cultural heritage data into Europeana? You can already filter by country (that holds the work) in Europeana.There are 6 million objects from the Netherlands. Your energy might be better spent either harvesting Dutch material back out of Europeana into a separate Netherl

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anything Interesting Going on in Archival Metadata?

2016-05-24 Thread Ethan Gruber
There's a fair amount of innovation taking place with respect to linked data in archives, but I don't think it's as well advertised as what's been taking place in libraries in North America. The highest profile project in the archival realm is Social Networks and Archival Context ( http://socialarc

Re: [CODE4LIB] question on harvesting RDF

2016-05-09 Thread Ethan Gruber
I don't recommend using different properties that have the same basic semantic meaning for those different contexts (dc:subject vs. dcterms:subject). In a linked data environment, I don't recommend using Dublin Core Elements at all, but only dcterms. It is possible to harvest subject terms regardle

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

2016-04-15 Thread Ethan Gruber
There are countless ways to approach the problem, but I suggest beginning with tools that are within the area of expertise of your staff. Mapping disparate structured formats into a single Solr instance for fast search and retrieval is one possibility. On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Matt Sherman

Re: [CODE4LIB] Structured Data Markup on library web sites

2016-03-23 Thread Ethan Gruber
We embed schema.org properties in RDFa within metadata for ETDs in our Digital Library application, e.g., http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/money_and_power_in_the_viking_kingdom_of_york I don't know exactly how Google's algorithms establish "authority," but the ETDs in our system us

Re: [CODE4LIB] Listserv communication

2016-02-26 Thread Ethan Gruber
Nearly all of my professional communication occurs on Twitter, for better or worse. I think that is probably the case for many of us. Code4lib is very much alive, but perhaps has evolved into disparate conversations taking place on Twitter instead of the listserv. On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 10:07 AM,

Re: [CODE4LIB] TEI->EPUB serialization testing

2016-01-14 Thread Ethan Gruber
Thanks, Eric. Is the original code online anywhere? I will eventually write some XSL:FO to generate PDFs for people who want those, for some reason. On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > On Jan 13, 2016, at 4:17 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > > > Part of this gran

[CODE4LIB] TEI->EPUB serialization testing

2016-01-13 Thread Ethan Gruber
Hi all, I've been working on and off for a few months on a system for publishing ebooks, ETDs, and other digital library materials online to a more consolidated "Digital Library" application ( http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary). The framework ( https://github.com/AmericanNumismaticSociety/etdp

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: [LODLAM] seeking LODLAM Workshop Leaders

2015-08-31 Thread Ethan Gruber
--Reusing and Building: Teach SPARQL as well as open source tools used to visualize single or multiple collections. Let us know if you can help! Please contact Jon Voss (jon.v...@shiftdesign.org.uk), Ethan Gruber ( ewg4x...@gmail.com), or Anne Gaynor (amgayn...@gmail.com) if you have any questi

Re: [CODE4LIB] eebo

2015-06-05 Thread Ethan Gruber
Are these in TEI? Back when I worked for the University of Virginia Library, I did a lot of clean up work and migration of Chadwyck-Healey stuff into TEI-P4 compliant XML (thousands of files), but unfortunately all of the Perl scripts to migrate old garbage SGML into XML are probably gone. How ma

Re: [CODE4LIB] XSLT Advice

2015-06-02 Thread Ethan Gruber
You really just need to wrap the label in the xsl:text and the xsl:value of in an xsl:if that tests whether the value-of XPath returns a string. Vol. Issue If there's no name at all, you'd want to wrap an xsl:if around the dc:identifier so that you suppress an empty dc:identifier elem

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Hours

2015-05-06 Thread Ethan Gruber
+1 on the RDFa and schema.org. For those that don't know the library URL off-hand, it is much easier to find a library website by Googling than it is to go through the central university portal, and the hours will show up at the top of the page after having been harvested by search engines. On Tue

Re: [CODE4LIB] seeking linked data-based user interface examples in libraries

2015-02-11 Thread Ethan Gruber
It depends on what you mean by interface. Are you just looking for social network visualizations or virtually any interface built on LOD (which may be quite varied and transparent to the point you don't even realize you are interacting with linked data)? Most of these social network graphs are gen

Re: [CODE4LIB] Restrict solr index results based on client IP

2015-01-07 Thread Ethan Gruber
There are a few ways to do this, and yes, some version of #2 is desirable. I think it may depend on how specific these IP addresses are. Do you anticipate that one IP range may have access to X documents and a different IP range may have access to Y documents, or will all IP ranges have access to t

Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf triplestores

2014-12-19 Thread Ethan Gruber
I recently extended Fuseki to hook into a Solr index for geographic query for one of our linked data projects, and I'm happy with the results so far. It will open the door for us to build more sophisticated geographic visualizations. I have not extended Fuseki for Lucene/Solr based full text search

Re: [CODE4LIB] Functional Archival Resource Keys

2014-12-09 Thread Ethan Gruber
7;?' by itself has no meaning in the URI spec, which means it's > > > also an opportunity to do something intuitive and important with an > > > unused portion of the "instruction space" (of strings that start out > > > looking like URLs). Any URLs (not j

Re: [CODE4LIB] Functional Archival Resource Keys

2014-12-08 Thread Ethan Gruber
ular, the challenges posed by inflections are described in this > > DC2014 paper [0] by Sébastien Peyrard and Jean-Philippe Tramoni from the > > BNF and John A. Kunze from CDL. > > > > [0] http://dcpapers.dublincore.org/pubs/article/view/3704/1927 > > > > Cheers, &g

[CODE4LIB] Functional Archival Resource Keys

2014-12-05 Thread Ethan Gruber
I was recently reading the wikipedia article for Archival Resource Keys (ARKs, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archival_Resource_Key), and there was a bit of functionality that a resource is supposed to deliver that we don't in our system, nor do any other systems that I've seen that implement ARK URI

Re: [CODE4LIB] Reconciling corporate names?

2014-09-26 Thread Ethan Gruber
I would check with the developers of SNAC ( http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/), as they've spent a lot of time developing named entity recognition scripts for personal and corporate names. They might have something you can reuse. Ethan On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Galligan, Patrick wro

[CODE4LIB] xEAC advanced beta / pre-production release ready for further testing

2014-08-29 Thread Ethan Gruber
development, as well as linked data methodologies applied to archival collections: http://eaditor.blogspot.com/ xEAC installation instructions: http://wiki.numismatics.org/xeac:xeac Ethan Gruber American Numismatic Society

Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating a Linked Data Service

2014-08-07 Thread Ethan Gruber
I agree with others saying linked data is overkill here. If you don't have an audience in mind or a specific purpose for implementing linked data, it's not worth it. On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Jason Stirnaman wrote: > Mike, > Check out > http://json-ld.org/, > http://json-ld.org/primer/lat

Re: [CODE4LIB] OAI Crosswalk XSLT

2014-07-11 Thread Ethan Gruber
The source model seems inordinately complex. On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Matthew Sherman wrote: > I guess it is the "doc:element/doc:element/doc:field" thing that is mostly > what it throwing me. > > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Dunn, Katie wrote: > > > Hi Matt, > > > > The W3C Re

Re: [CODE4LIB] New linked data set from North Carolina State University Libraries

2014-07-09 Thread Ethan Gruber
This is great. I appreciate that you've included XSLT to transform MADS into other RDF serializations. I think that people will find this really useful in other projects. A minor point of contention, and it may start a debate, but I have been successfully convinced that skos:exactMatch and not owl

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: [LAWDI] ISAW Papers 7 available

2014-07-09 Thread Ethan Gruber
This may interest some people: current state of linked open data within classics/classical archaeology. These papers are from the NEH-funded Linked Ancient World Data Institute, held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU in 2012 and Drew University in 2013. Ethan -- F

[CODE4LIB] Archival linked open data: a discussion

2014-05-16 Thread Ethan Gruber
thread in Google Groups: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/lod-lam/sIrCqZPaZ8c/discussion Ethan Gruber American Numismatic Society

Re: [CODE4LIB] outside of libraryland,

2014-03-19 Thread Ethan Gruber
LODLAM, LAWDI (linked ancient world data institute/initiative), CAA conference (computer applications in archaeology). On Mar 19, 2014 8:20 PM, "Coral Sheldon-Hess" wrote: > A co-founded and co-host a learn-to-code workshop "for women and friends," > locally. (Men are welcomed as long as they ar

Re: [CODE4LIB] ArchivesSpace v1.0.7 Released [linked data]

2014-03-06 Thread Ethan Gruber
I think that RDFa provides the lowest barrier to entry. Using dcterms for publisher, creator, title, etc. is a good place to start, and if your collection (archival, library, museum) links to terms defined in LOD vocabulary systems (LCSH, Getty, LCNAF, whatever), output these URIs in the HTML inter

[CODE4LIB] xEAC, EAC-CPF publication framework, beta ready for testing

2014-03-06 Thread Ethan Gruber
xEAC is an open-source XForms-based application for creating and managing EAC-CPF collections. The XForms backend allows editing of the XML documents in a web form, and relationships between source and target entities are maintained automatically. It is available at https://github.com/ewg118/xEAC.

Re: [CODE4LIB] ArchivesSpace v1.0.7 Released [linked data]

2014-03-06 Thread Ethan Gruber
The issue here that I see is that D2RQ will expose the MySQL database structure as linked data in some sort of indecipherable ontology and the end result is probably useless. What Mark alludes to here is that the developers of ArchivesSpace could write scripts, inherent to the platform, that could

Re: [CODE4LIB] getty thesaurus, linked data, and sparql

2014-02-21 Thread Ethan Gruber
You have to have some idea of what ontologies are being used and how they are used. The SPARQL endpoint gives you a list of the prefixes to prepend, but you still have to know what they are. The best way to learn about the structure of the data is to browse around. There aren't many example queries

Re: [CODE4LIB] links from finding aid to digital object

2014-01-15 Thread Ethan Gruber
You could also try the EAD list if you need more examples. On Jan 15, 2014 8:45 AM, "Edward Summers" wrote: > Thanks for all the responses about linking finding aids to digital objects > yesterday — it was very helpful! I haven’t done much work (yet) looking to > see what the patterns are. But a

Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data recipe

2013-11-19 Thread Ethan Gruber
Hasn't the pendulum swung back toward RDFa Lite ( http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-lite/) recently? They are fairly equivalent, but I'm not sure about all the politics involved. On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Karen Coyle wrote: > Eric, if you want to leap into the linked data world in the fastest,

Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data recipe

2013-11-19 Thread Ethan Gruber
a data model *not* a serialization. > > -Ross. > > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > > > I see that serialization has a different definition in computer science > > than I thought it did. > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10

Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data recipe

2013-11-19 Thread Ethan Gruber
; > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > > > I'm not sure that I agree that RDF is not a serialization. It really > > depends on the context of the system and intended use of the linked data. > > For example, TEI is designed with a specific purpo

Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data recipe

2013-11-19 Thread Ethan Gruber
I'm not sure that I agree that RDF is not a serialization. It really depends on the context of the system and intended use of the linked data. For example, TEI is designed with a specific purpose which cannot be replicated in RDF (at least, not very easily at all), but deriving RDF from highly-lin

Re: [CODE4LIB] Charlotte, NC Code4Lib Meeting

2013-11-14 Thread Ethan Gruber
Asheville +1 On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Simon Spero wrote: > Anyone thought about doing a code4lib in Asheville? > What about Raleigh? > :-P > On Nov 12, 2013 8:42 PM, "Kevin S. Clarke" wrote: > > > I'd be interested. I'm in Boone... not too far a drive. :) > > > > Kevin > > On Nov 12, 2

Re: [CODE4LIB] Charlotte, NC Code4Lib Meeting

2013-11-12 Thread Ethan Gruber
I'm in Virginia and might attend said meeting, even if I can't help organize. On Nov 12, 2013 6:35 PM, "Riley Childs" wrote: > Is anyone in Charlotte, NC (and surrounding areas) interested in starting a > Code4Lib meeting? > Just kind of asking :{D! > *Riley Childs* > *Library Technology Manager

Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf triplestores

2013-11-11 Thread Ethan Gruber
I've been using Apache Fuseki ( http://jena.apache.org/documentation/serving_data/) for almost a year, in production since the spring. It's a SPARQL server with a built in TBD. It's easy to use, and takes about 5 minutes to get working on your desktop or server. Ethan On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 1:

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

2013-11-10 Thread Ethan Gruber
Does anyone have experience with an image zooming engine in conjunction with image annotation? I don't want end users to annotate things themselves, but allow them to click on annotations added by an archivist. Thanks, Ethan On Nov 8, 2013 4:39 PM, "Edward Summers" wrote: > I’m having trouble un

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

2013-11-08 Thread Ethan Gruber
On the same note, I've had good experiences with using adore djatoka to render jpeg2000 files. Maybe something better has since come along. I'm out of touch with this type of technology. On Nov 8, 2013 2:10 PM, "Edward Summers" wrote: > It is sad to me that converting to PDF for viewing off the W

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

2013-11-08 Thread Ethan Gruber
I've done something like this in imagemagick, and it worked quite well, so I can vouch for this workflow. But just to clarify, I presume you will be creating static PDF files to place in the filesystem--not generate a PDF dynamically through Omeka when a user clicks to download a PDF (as in, Omeka

Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf serialization

2013-11-06 Thread Ethan Gruber
I think that the answer to #1 is that if you want or expect people to use your endpoint that you should document how it works: the ontologies, the models, and a variety of example SPARQL queries, ranging from simple to complex. The British Museum's SPARQL endpoint ( http://collection.britishmuseum

Re: [CODE4LIB] We should use HTTPS on code4lib.org

2013-11-04 Thread Ethan Gruber
NSA broke it already On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 1:42 PM, William Denton wrote: > I think it's time we made everything on code4lib.org use HTTPS by default > and redirect people to HTTPS from HTTP when needed. (Right now there's an > outdated self-signed SSL certificate on the site, so someone took

[CODE4LIB] Numismatic Data Standards and Ontologies Roundtable at CAA 2014

2013-10-22 Thread Ethan Gruber
Andrew Meadows, Karsten Tolle, and David Wigg-Wolf invite participants for a roundtable on numismatic data standards and exchange, to be held at the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) conference (http://caa2014.sciencesconf.org/), Paris, 22-25 April 2014. Coins sur

Re: [CODE4LIB] CODE4LIB Digest - 12 Sep 2013 to 13 Sep 2013 (#2013-237)

2013-09-16 Thread Ethan Gruber
Using SPARQL to validate seems like tremendous overhead. From the Gerber abstract: "A total of 55 rules have been defined representing the constraints and requirements of the OA Specification and Ontology. For each rule we have defined a SPARQL query to check compliance." I hope this isn't 55 SPAR

Re: [CODE4LIB] Expressing negatives and similar in RDF

2013-09-13 Thread Ethan Gruber
+1 On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Esmé Cowles wrote: > Thomas- > > This isn't something I've run across yet. But one thing you could do is > create some URIs for different kinds of unknown/nonexistent titles: > > example:book1 dc:title example:unknownTitle > example:book2 dc:title example:no

Re: [CODE4LIB] W3C RDF Validation Workshop

2013-09-12 Thread Ethan Gruber
RDF is not the be all end all for representing information, so I don't know if there is a point to defining a validation schema which can also be represented in RDF since requirements vary from model to model, project to project. If you were creating RDF/XML, you could enforce complex validation t

Re: [CODE4LIB] What do you want to learn about linked data?

2013-09-04 Thread Ethan Gruber
There's a lot of really great linked data stuff going on in classical studies. The Pelagios project (http://pelagios-project.blogspot.com/) is one of the best examples because the bar for participation is set very low. The RDF model is very simple, linking objects (works of literature, sculpture,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject Terms in Institutional Repositories

2013-08-30 Thread Ethan Gruber
I'd hold off on AAT until the release of the Getty vocabularies as linked open data in the near future. No sense in investing time to purchase or otherwise harvest terms from the Getty's current framework when the architecture is going to change very soon. On a related note, the British Museum's

Re: [CODE4LIB] linked archival metadata: a guidebook

2013-08-12 Thread Ethan Gruber
I'll implement your linked data specifications into EADitor as soon as they're ready. In fact, I began implementing Aaron Rubinstein's hybrid arch/dc ontology (http://gslis.simmons.edu/archival/arch/index.html) a few days ago. Ethan On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Stephen Marks wrote: > Hi Er

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby

2013-07-30 Thread Ethan Gruber
All languages other than assembly are boutique and must be eliminated like the cancer that they are. On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Ross Singer wrote: > What would you consider a "boutique" language? What isn't? > > -Ross. > > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Rich Wenger wrote: > > > Th

[CODE4LIB] Machine tags and flickr commons

2013-07-10 Thread Ethan Gruber
There is an enormous body of open photographs contributed by a myriad of libraries and museums to flickr. Is anyone aware of any efforts to associate machine tags with these photos, for example to georeference with geonames machine tags, tag people with VIAF ids, or categorize with LCSH ids? A qu

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Ethan Gruber
p on this project. > > > > Josh Welker > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf > > Of Ethan Gruber > > Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 8:22 AM > > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU &g

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Ethan Gruber
Are you referring to hierarchical sets of terms, like "United States--History--War with Mexico, 1845-1848"? This is an "earlier established term" of http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140201 (now labeled "Mexican War, 1846-1848"). Ed Summers or Kevin Ford are in a better position to discu

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Ethan Gruber
You'd write some javascript to query the service with every keystroke, e.g. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/suggest/?q=Hi replies with subjects beginning with "hi*" It looks like covo.js supports LCSH, so you could look into that. Ethan On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Joshua Welker wrote: > Thi

Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat Implements Content-Negotiation for Linked Data

2013-06-03 Thread Ethan Gruber
+1 On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Richard Wallis < richard.wal...@dataliberate.com> wrote: > The Linked Data for the millions of resources in WorldCat.org is now > available as RDF/XML, JSON-LD, Turtle, and Triples via content-negotiation. > > Details: > > http://dataliberate.com/2013/06/conten

Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualizing RDF graphs

2013-05-02 Thread Ethan Gruber
Wow, that's pretty cool. I tried one of the dbpedia examples. I look forward to playing around with it with our data. Ethan On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 5:40 AM, raffaele messuti wrote: > Ethan Gruber wrote: > > This looks like it does what I want to do, but it requires Virtuoso a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualizing RDF graphs

2013-05-01 Thread Ethan Gruber
ark A. Matienzo wrote: > Hi Ethan, > > Have you looked at Payola? <https://github.com/payola/Payola> > > Mark > > -- > Mark A. Matienzo > Digital Archivist, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library > Technical Architect, ArchivesSpace > > > On Wed, M

[CODE4LIB] Visualizing RDF graphs

2013-05-01 Thread Ethan Gruber
Hi all, I have a fair amount of data in a triplestore, and I'd like to experiment with different forms of visualization. I have found a few libraries for visualizing RDF graphs through Google, but they still seem relatively rudimentary. Does anyone on the list have recommendations? I'm looking

Re: [CODE4LIB] tiff2pdf, then back to pdf?

2013-04-26 Thread Ethan Gruber
What's your use case in this scenario? Do you want to provide access to the PDFs over the web or are you using them as your archival format? You probably don't want to use PDF to achieve both objectives. Ethan On Apr 26, 2013 5:11 PM, "Edward M. Corrado" wrote: > This works sometimes. Well, it

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fuseki and other SPARQL servers

2013-02-22 Thread Ethan Gruber
0,000+ SPARQL queries per day. That's not a lot by dbpedia standards, but I have no idea how that compares to average LAM systems. Thanks, Ethan On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > Thanks everyone for the info. This soothed my apprehensions of running > Fuseki

Re: [CODE4LIB] You are a *pedantic* coder. So what am I?

2013-02-21 Thread Ethan Gruber
Look, I'm sure we can list the many ways different languages fail to meet our expectations, but is this really a constructive line of conversation? -1 On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Justin Coyne wrote: > I did misspeak a bit. You can override static methods in Java. My major > issue is tha

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fuseki and other SPARQL servers

2013-02-21 Thread Ethan Gruber
g the Fuseki server running on > the same machine as the SDB. > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Ethan Gruber > > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 2:52 PM > > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fuseki and other SPARQL servers

2013-02-20 Thread Ethan Gruber
TDB as per the startup instruction: "fuseki-server --loc=DB /DatasetPathName" Ethan On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Ross Singer wrote: > On Feb 20, 2013, at 2:52 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > > > Hi Hugh, > > > > I have investigated the possibility of dep

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fuseki and other SPARQL servers

2013-02-20 Thread Ethan Gruber
I've had no performance issues with it > whatever. > > Best, > Hugh > > On Feb 20, 2013, at 14:31 , Ethan Gruber wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have been playing around with Fuseki ( > > http://jena.apache.org/documentation/serving_data/index.ht

[CODE4LIB] Fuseki and other SPARQL servers

2013-02-20 Thread Ethan Gruber
Hi all, I have been playing around with Fuseki ( http://jena.apache.org/documentation/serving_data/index.html) for a few months to get my feet wet with accessing and querying RDF. I quite like it. I find it well documented and easy to set up. We will soon deploy a SPARQL server in a production e

Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)

2013-02-20 Thread Ethan Gruber
Wordpress? On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Karen Coyle wrote: > Shaun, you cannot decide whether github is a barrier to entry FOR ME (or > anyone else), any more than you can decide whether or not my foot hurts. > I'm telling you github is NOT what I want to use. Period. > > I'm actually thin

Re: [CODE4LIB] Getting started with Ruby and library-ish data (was RE: [CODE4LIB] You *are* a coder. So what am I?)

2013-02-18 Thread Ethan Gruber
The language you choose is somewhat dependent on the data you're working with. I don't find that Ruby or PHP are particularly good at dealing with XML. They're passable for data manipulation and migration, but I wouldn't use them to render large collections of structured XML data, like EAD or TEI

Re: [CODE4LIB] one tool and/or resource that you recommend to newbie coders in a library?

2012-11-01 Thread Ethan Gruber
Google is more useful than any reference book to find answers to programming problems. On Nov 1, 2012 4:25 PM, "Bohyun Kim" wrote: > Hi all code4lib-bers, > > As coders and coding librarians, what is ONE tool and/or resource that you > recommend to newbie coders in a library (and why)? I promise

[CODE4LIB] Using dbpedia to generate EAC-CPF collections

2012-10-03 Thread Ethan Gruber
Hi all, In the last few weeks, I have undertaken a project of EAC-CPF stubs using dbpedia and VIAF data for the Roman emperors and their relations. There's a lot of great information available through dbpedia, and since it's available in RDF, I put together a PHP script that can start at one poin

Re: [CODE4LIB] Displaying TGN terms

2012-09-17 Thread Ethan Gruber
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Timelines (was: visualize website)

2012-08-31 Thread Ethan Gruber
There's also timemap (SIMILE Timeline + mapping libraries like Google Maps or OpenLayers) if you need to display geography in conjunction to chronology. http://code.google.com/p/timemap/ Ethan On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Walter Lewis wrote: > On 2012-08-30, at 1:03 PM, miles stauffer wrot

Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software

2012-08-09 Thread Ethan Gruber
I find Omeka to be stronger in the area of collections publication and exhibition than hardcore archival management due to the rather rudimentary Dublin Core metadata foundation. You can make other element sets, but it's not a perfect solution. Ethan On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Kaile Zhu wr

[CODE4LIB] Reminder: THATCamp for Computational Archaeology registration deadline is TODAY

2012-06-10 Thread Ethan Gruber
ld & Lab Recording 7. Theoretical Approaches & Context of Archaeological Computing 8. Human Computer Interaction, Multimedia, Museums More info: http://caana2012.thatcamp.org/ Follow us on twitter at @THATCampCAANA or for email inquiries, use thatcampca...@gmail.com Ethan Gruber Ame

Re: [CODE4LIB] Best way to process large XML files

2012-06-08 Thread Ethan Gruber
Saxon is really, really efficient with large files. I don't really have any benchmarks stats available, but I have gotten noticeably better performance from Saxon/XSLT2 than PHP with DOMDocument or SimpleXML or nokogiri and hpricot in Ruby. Ethan On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Kyle Banerjee wro

Re: [CODE4LIB] Studying the email list (Charcuterie Spectrum)

2012-06-05 Thread Ethan Gruber
The begs the question, what is the official Roy Tennant position on baloney vs. bologna? May I suggest a viaf-like resource for food, in which I may prefer the baloney label while allowing my data to be cross-searchable with bologna records? Is there an RDF ontology for this??? On Tue, Jun 5, 20

[CODE4LIB] THATCamp for Computational Archaeology registration extended to June 10

2012-06-04 Thread Ethan Gruber
within the realms of archaeology and technology. You can follow us on twitter at @THATCampCAANA. Look forward to seeing you there! Ethan Gruber American Numismatic Society

Re: [CODE4LIB] triple stores ???

2012-05-29 Thread Ethan Gruber
For those using these big triplestores, how are you putting data in? I'm looking for a triplestore which supports SPARQL update. Any comments anyone can add on this interface will be useful. Ethan On May 29, 2012 4:12 PM, "Ravi Shankar" wrote: > Thanks, Stefano. The Europeana report seems to b

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone using node.js?

2012-05-08 Thread Ethan Gruber
gara.org/ > > --Kevin > > > > > On 05/08/2012 02:01 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > >> For what it's worth, I have processed XML in PHP, Ruby, and Saxon/XSLT 2, >> but I feel like I'm missing some sort of inside joke here. >> >> Thanks for the in

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone using node.js?

2012-05-08 Thread Ethan Gruber
Each platform has its pros and cons. I didn't mean to ruffle any feathers with that statement. On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Ross Singer wrote: > On May 8, 2012, at 2:01 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > > > For what it's worth, I have processed XML in PHP, Ruby, and Saxon

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone using node.js?

2012-05-08 Thread Ethan Gruber
ation and language I am experienced with, to put a new project into production in the next 4-8 weeks. Ethan On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Nate Vack wrote: > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Ross Singer > wrote: > > On May 8, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > >>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone using node.js?

2012-05-08 Thread Ethan Gruber
> > Thanks, > > Cary > > On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > It was recently suggested to me that a project I am working on may adopt > > node.js for its architecture (well, be completely re-written for > node.js). >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone using node.js?

2012-05-08 Thread Ethan Gruber
ge informatics, feel free to jump in. Our data is exclusively XML, so LAMP/Rails aren't really options. Ethan On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Nate Vack wrote: > On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > > > It was recently suggested to me that a project I a

[CODE4LIB] Anyone using node.js?

2012-05-07 Thread Ethan Gruber
Hi all, It was recently suggested to me that a project I am working on may adopt node.js for its architecture (well, be completely re-written for node.js). I don't know anything about node.js, and have only heard of it in some passing discussions on the list. I'd like to know if anyone on code4li

Re: [CODE4LIB] Omeka and CoSign

2012-04-20 Thread Ethan Gruber
Hi Ken, You may get a response here, but the Omeka Google Group community offers really great support. I'd ask there as well. Ethan On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Varnum, Ken wrote: > We're hoping to use our campus CoSign authentication system with Omeka, > allowing campus users to log in

[CODE4LIB] Representing geographic hiearchy in linked data

2012-04-18 Thread Ethan Gruber
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Re: [CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed?

2012-04-13 Thread Ethan Gruber
It appears that academia.edu still does not have an Atom/RSS feed for member activity and listed publications, but I think such a feature would be very useful. If there was a concerted effort to demand such a service, academia.edu might consider implementing it. Ethan On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:2

Re: [CODE4LIB] Representing geographic hiearchy in linked data

2012-04-11 Thread Ethan Gruber
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. Ethan On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Simon Spero wrote: > On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > > > Ancient geographic entities. Athens is in Attica. Sardis is in Lydia > (in > > Anatolia, for example).

Re: [CODE4LIB] Representing geographic hiearchy in linked data

2012-04-09 Thread Ethan Gruber
5:53 PM, "Simon Spero" wrote: > Are you talking about geographical entities, or geopolitical ones? For > example, is there an answer to the question "what country is > constantinople located in?" > > Simon > On Apr 8, 2012 8:02 PM, "Ethan Gruber"

Re: [CODE4LIB] Representing geographic hiearchy in linked data

2012-04-08 Thread Ethan Gruber
CIDOC-CRM may be the answer here. I will look over the documentation in greater detail tomorrow. Thanks, Ethan On Apr 8, 2012 7:56 PM, "Ethan Gruber" wrote: > The data is modeled, but I want to use an ontology for geographic concepts > that already exists, if possible. If an

Re: [CODE4LIB] Representing geographic hiearchy in linked data

2012-04-08 Thread Ethan Gruber
that, at some point, you have to model > the data. > > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Ethan Gruber > Sent: 08 April 2012 15:44 > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Representing geog

Re: [CODE4LIB] Representing geographic hiearchy in linked data

2012-04-08 Thread Ethan Gruber
y away from Dublin Core, but I did venture onto the DC Terms >> page just now and saw TGN listed in the vocabulary encoding schemes there, >> so probably someone has implemented it. >> >> Karen >> >> >> Karen D. Miller >> Monographic/Digital Projects Cataloger &g

Re: [CODE4LIB] RDF advice

2012-02-14 Thread Ethan Gruber
Hi Karen, Thanks. Would it be odd to use foaf:primaryTopic when FOAF isn't used to describe other attributes of a concept? Ethan On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: > On 2/13/12 1:43 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > >> Hi Patrick, >> >> Thanks. Tha

Re: [CODE4LIB] RDF advice

2012-02-13 Thread Ethan Gruber
entation as a Document Reference section in SKOS > Primer : > http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/**NOTE-skos-primer-20090818/<http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-skos-primer-20090818/> > > Again, if I'm following, that might be the closest approach. > > Hope that helps, > Patr

Re: [CODE4LIB] RDF advice

2012-02-11 Thread Ethan Gruber
ling >> the latter is incorrect, at least according to the documentation I've read >> on the w3c. For what it's worth, VIAF uses owl:sameAs/@rdf:resource to >> point to dbpedia and other web resources. >> >> Thanks, >> Ethan >> >> On Sat, Feb

Re: [CODE4LIB] RDF advice

2012-02-11 Thread Ethan Gruber
source to point to dbpedia and other web resources. Thanks, Ethan On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Ross Singer wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:51 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > > Hi Ross, > > > > No, the richer ontology is not an RDF vocabulary, but it adheres to > linke

Re: [CODE4LIB] RDF advice

2012-02-10 Thread Ethan Gruber
s Singer wrote: > The whole advantage of RDF is that you can pull properties from different > vocabularies (as long as they're not logically disjoint). So, assuming your > richer ontology is some kind of RDF vocabulary, this exactly *what* you > should be doing. > > -Ross.

[CODE4LIB] RDF advice

2012-02-10 Thread Ethan Gruber
Hi all, I'm working on an RDF model for describing concepts. I have skos:Concept nested inside rdf:RDF. Most documents will have little more than labels and related links inside of skos:Concept. However, for a certain type of concept, we have XML documents with a more sophisticated ontology and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata

2012-02-10 Thread Ethan Gruber
An interface is only as useful as the metadata allows it to be, and the metadata is only as useful as the interface built to take advantage of it. Ethan On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:10 PM, David Faler wrote: > I think the answer is make sure you are able to add new elements to the > store later, a

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