DCMI 2014: schema.org holdings in open source library systems
My slides from DCMI 2014: schema.org in the wild: open source libraries++. Last week I was at the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative 2014 conference, where Richard Wallis, Charles MacCathie Nevile and I...
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At the LITA Forum yesterday, I accused (presentation) most discovery layers of not solving the discoverability problems of libraries, but instead exacerbating them by launching us headlong to a...
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Putting the "Web" back into Semantic Web in Libraries 2014
I was honoured to lead a workshop and speak at this year's edition ofSemantic Web in Bibliotheken (SWIB) in Bonn, Germany. It was an amazing experience; there were so many rich projects being described...
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Library catalogues and HTTP status codes
I noticed in Google's Webmaster Tools that our catalogue had been returning some Soft 404s. Curious, I checked into some of the URIs suffering from this condition, and realized that Evergreen returns...
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Querying Evergreen from Google Sheets with custom functions via Apps Script
Our staff were recently asked to check thousands of ISBNs to find out if we already have the corresponding books in our catalogue. They in turn asked me if I could run a script that would check it for...
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