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Comment on Playing with pipes by asa letourneau

asa letourneau — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:34:19 +0000

Amanda,

If you are out there and you get this…knew nothing about screen scraping a few days ago. Came across this http://newprosoft.com/web-content-extractor.htm Not bad for someone like me who has ZERO scripting/coding background!

Comment on Emerging technologies and the need to experiment by tim

tim — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:45:08 +0000

Asa, Thanks – glad you’re finding it useful!

Comment on Remembering Lawrence Hargrave by tim

tim — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:43:55 +0000

Virgioni, Geoffrey Hargrave was killed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey, see – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli_Campaign

Comment on Emerging technologies and the need to experiment by asa letourneau

asa letourneau — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:32:51 +0000

Have read about 3/4 and am blown away! Thanks so much for making accessible a wealth of knowledge and links to people such as myself who are just starting out in the brave new world of open data and open archives.

Comment on Remembering Lawrence Hargrave by Virginio Tonini

Virginio Tonini — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:30:24 +0000

Vorrei sapere perchè viene scritto che Geoffrey Lewis Hargrave, fù ucciso il giorno 4 oppure il 24 Maggio 1915 , in una azione bellica, a Gallipoli ( Lecce ) Italia. Ci deve essere un errore in quanto l’ Italia entrò in guerra il 24 Maggio 1915 , ma a Gallipoli non vi fù mai dei combattimenti per tutta la durata della guerra. Sinceramente vostro
Virginio Tonini – un appassionato di storia dell’ aviazione

Comment on I link therefore I am by Linking to Trove « Australia New Zealand Digital Encyclopedias Group

Linking to Trove « Australia New Zealand Digital Encyclopedias Group — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:40:39 +0000

[...] Sometimes, though, you just want to link one or two names to Trove. Maybe you want to disambiguate someone in a blog post. In that case, think about using Wragge’s Identity Browser. Tim Sherratt has written Wragge’s Identity Browser as a Python library that helps you to quickly generate an RDFa link to someone in Trove. That means that you can link to a person in Trove and (with the help of a Friend of a Friend (FOAF) prefix mapping) tell harvesters that this is a link to a person and that person is Grace Cossington Smith. All that semantic goodness. Tim has described how it all works in I link therefore I am. [...]

Comment on I link therefore I am by b3rn

b3rn — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:16:59 +0000

Thanks Tim, very helpful

Comment on I link therefore I am by tim

tim — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:08:59 +0000

B3rn – Well there’s the WWII nominal roll – no rdf, but there do seem to be individual identifiers for people. So you could use foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf links to http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?VeteranID=veteran_id. If the DVA could expose this data through OAI-PMH then People Australia could ingest it, creating the possibility of further links. (Another job for you Basil?) Perhaps we should start lobbying DVA.

The other possibility is to use their service records in the National Archives. There’s info on finding them here: Once you’ve found a service record (and perhaps requested it to be digitised) you can create a persistent url using the following formula: http://www.naa.gov.au/cgi-bin/Search?O=I&Number=barcode – where barcode is the file barcode. Barcodes are unique and, in most cases, persistent, so they can provide a quasi-identifier.

Once again I would hope that the NAA will start to expose its people data so it can be ingested by People Australia, but…

Comment on I link therefore I am by Basil Dewhurst

Basil Dewhurst — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:48:33 +0000

Note that the People Australia SRU interface that Tim is using (http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/srw/search/peopleaustralia) provides 44 searchable indexes including surname, forename, identifiers, description, possessingInstitution, biography, relatedname, relatedresource and, the catchall, anywhere.

Also, to make life even easier, in the near future we’ll be implementing pattern matching.

Comment on I link therefore I am by b3rn

b3rn — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:08:45 +0000

Great post. I’m working in my spare time on a WWII honour roll that lists local residents. I’ll be looking to RDF the content (that is, the people). Any suggestions or ideas? Ideally it will allow links (now or in the future) with other resources & institutions.