Library Mashups
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Library Mashups


I just received my copy of Nicole C. Engard's Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data. Thank you Nicole for editing this book. I've only have time to skim it and read one paper but it looks like a winner. Can't wait to read more.

The article I read was on making your library's data accessible by Ross Singer. YES. Microformats, RDFa and eRDF, linked data, COinS, unAPI and other POSH (plain old semantic HTML) are all things I consider important.





- Rdf, Coins And Microformats
At the closing session of Electronic Resources and Libraries 2010 I had the chance to ask Ross Singer and John Blyberg about the place of microformats and COinS in information organization. Ross had just finished speaking about the importance of linked...

- Semantic Web @ Sxsw 2010
Here are some proposed Semantic Web sessions proposed for South by Southwest 2010. Talis seems to represent the library pretty well. If you want to see any of these on the final program, vote for it. Set your data free Ian Davis, CTO - Talis Data isn't...

- Coins In Wordpress
The OpenBook Book Data plug-in for WordPress by John Miedema now supports COinS.OpenBook is for book reviewers, book bloggers, library webmasters, anyone who wants to put book covers and data on their WordPress blog or website.OpenBook gets its covers...

- Problems With Microformats
This is old news, but new to me and maybe someone else. There are some basic problems with many of the microformats, including the hCalendar. The BBC has stopped using microformats.Since /programmes first went live we've been working to ensure that...

- Microformats
Microformats University: 100+ Articles and Resources by Jessica Hupp.Microformats are small formatting pieces designed to make your data easier to read by both users and software. Although their use is not widespread, it?s important that every web developer...



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