Remember that contest where there is a jellybean jar full of jellybeans and the goal is to guess how many jellybeans there are in the jar? I think the MARC –> RDF question is a bit like that. RDF has been discussed lately on the MODS list (and a bit here). Ironically, there has been [...]
Archives for July 2005
The Marriage of Firefox and Unalog
Dan just recently added the ability to batch edit keyword tags in Unalog, his infinitely useful social bookmarking application (can you tell I’m a fan?). So like a good metadata, cataloging, programming librarian I decided now was the time to start cleaning up some of those wildly divergent keyword tags I’ve been assigning. After all, [...]
Apple Dropping Java (Again)
Seems Apple will be dropping Java as a supported programming language for its GUI features. From this point on, developers are encouraged to write their programs in Objective-C. I’m surprised, but not too surprised… Apple does have a long history of NIH decisions. It is interesting because Apple has been implementing native peers for the [...]
XOBIS and Museum Data
Yesterday I (and several other library folks) had an interesting meeting with the art museum people on campus. They were kind enough to give us a tour of the art museum’s new content management system. I was particularly interested in seeing this system because I haven’t had much exposure to the museum world (but have [...]
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