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Long running and asynchronous processes in XProc-Z
I added a useful feature to my web server framework XProc-Z, to allow it to run processes that take a long time – longer than the lifetime of an HTTP request. Specifically, I had in mind running...
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LODLAM Challenge Entry
I have put an entry into the 2015 LODLAM Challenge, a competition for projects doing something with Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives, or Museums. Now my entry just needs people to view it and...
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Beta release of XProc-Z web server framework
I have at last released a “final” version of my web server framework, XProc-Z, for testing. The last features I had wanted to include were: The ability for the XProc code in the web server to read...
View ArticlePublic OAI-PMH repository for Papers Past
I have deployed a publicly available service to provide access in bulk to newspaper articles from Papers Past — the National Library of New Zealand’s online collection of historical newspapers — via...
View ArticleOld News for Twitter
Yesterday I finished a little development project to build a TwitterBot for New Zealand’s online newspaper archive Papers Past. What’s a “TwitterBot”? It’s a software application that autonomously...
View ArticleA trick to easily add features to existing websites and applications
At the start of last month I attended the LODLAM (Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums) Summit in Sydney, in the lovely Mitchell Library of the State Library of New South Wales. The...
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Zotero, Web APIs, and data formats
I’ve been doing some work recently (for a couple of different clients) with Zotero, the popular reference management software. I’ve always been a big fan of the product. It has a number of great...
View ArticleLinked Open Data built from a custom web API
I’ve spent a bit of time just recently poking at the new Web API of Museum Victoria Collections, and making a Linked Open Data service based on their API. I’m writing this up as an example of one way —...
View ArticleNames in the Museum
My last blog post described an experimental Linked Open Data service I created, underpinned by Museum Victoria’s collection API. Mainly, I described the LOD service’s general framework, and explained...
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Bridging the conceptual gap: Museum Victoria’s collections API and the CIDOC...
A Museum Victoria LOD graph about a teacup, shown using the LODLive visualizer.This is the third in a series of posts about an experimental Linked Open Data (LOD) publication based on the web API of...
View ArticleTaking control of an uncontrolled vocabulary
A couple of days ago, Dan McCreary tweeted: Working on new ideas for NoSQL metadata management for a talk next week. Focus on #NoSQL, Documents, Graphs and #SKOS. Any suggestions? — Dan McCreary...
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Visualizing Government Archives through Linked Data
Tonight I’m knocking back a gin and tonic to celebrate finishing a piece of software development for my client the Public Record Office Victoria; the archives of the government of the Australian state...
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Linked Open Data Visualisation at #GLAMVR16
On Thursday last week I flew to Perth, in Western Australia, to speak at an event at Curtin University on visualisation of cultural heritage. Erik Champion, Professor of Cultural Visualisation, who...
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Australian Society of Archivists 2016 conference #asalinks
Last week I participated in the 2016 conference of the Australian Society of Archivists, in Parramatta. #ASALinks poster I was very impressed by the programme and the discussion. I thought I’d jot down...
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Oceania
I am really excited to have begun my latest project: a Linked Open Data service for online cultural heritage from New Zealand and Australia, and eventually, I hope, from our other neighbours. I have...
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A tool for Web API harvesting
A medieval man harvesting metadata from a medieval Web API As 2016 stumbles to an end, I’ve put in a few days’ work on my new project Oceania, which is to be a Linked Data service for cultural heritage...
View ArticleAnalysis & Policy Online
Notes for my Open Repositories 2017 conference presentation. I will edit this post later to flesh it out into a proper blog post. Follow along at: conaltuohy.com/blog/analysis-policy-online/ background...
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