Archives for January 2006

Concept Maps

I’ve been throwing around (with another library programmer) the idea of expressing XOBIS as a Topic Map. He is knowledgeable about Topic Maps (TMs). I, while interested in them, wouldn’t say I’ve drunk the kool-aid quite yet. My interest in doing this mapping of (X)OBIS into TM (Topic Map) form is to better understand how [...]

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RDF is “Easy As Learning English”

Hmm, seems I riled some folks up about RDF and didn’t even know it (until someone sent me a link today — too bad I wasn’t linked to in the original post). Anyway, I started to write a semi-long, semi-polite response to Shelley Powers, author of Practical RDF, in response to her blog entry titled [...]

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Gentoo Stable

I’ve finally downgraded my whole machine to Gentoo Stable. Up til now, I’ve been running the unstable version on my laptop. I’m getting too old/busy for all the frequent upgrades though. There are some apps I want to have unstable versions for, but I’ve learned how to manage those more efficiently through the /etc/portage/package.keywords file. [...]

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Identified Needles

There is an interesting story on C|Net News on libraries using RFIDs. A few quotes: “RFID makes the painstaking task of sniffing out misplaced books much easier, according to proponents. Library staff need only peruse the facilities with a handheld RFID reader, which triggers each book within a few feet to identify itself via a [...]

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