Comments on: Open Education: Talis Incubator Proposal

By: OPACPress: building a social, semantic, devolved, distributed union catalogue at L&LR staff blog

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:52:45 +0000

[...] Architect at Plymouth State University. The bid is to develop an idea which I’ve posted about before, based on Casey’s work on Scriblio and our adventures with WordPress MU, in particular, [...]

By: OPACPress: Our Talis Incubator proposal – ../learninglab/joss

OPACPress: Our Talis Incubator proposal – ../learninglab/joss — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:35:58 +0000

[...] at Plymouth State University. The bid is to develop an idea which I’ve posted about before, based on Casey’s work on Scriblio and our adventures with WordPress MU, in particular, [...]

By: Joss

Joss — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:05:01 +0000

Actually it does work. i.e. http://vreri.jiscpress.org/triplify/post/3?t-output=json

By: Alex Bilbie

Alex Bilbie — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:59:56 +0000

Yeah there is a bug in the Triplify application that is causing this. IMO the whole thing needs rewriting with comments in because it’s impossible to debug the code as it stands.

By: Joss

Joss — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:56:20 +0000

Apparently, Triplify already produces JSON: http://triplify.org/Documentation

“JSON output: simply append ?t-output=json to any Triplify URI and you can easily access Triplify data, even without an RDF/N3 parser”

I can’t get it to work, but it looks like it should.

By: Alex Bilbie

Alex Bilbie — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:35:39 +0000

Like Roger said what would is great about this is that it means we don’t have to hack Horizon to death in order to get information out for web services.

I don’t know much about OPAC or Scriblio but can it also expose the books that I’ve taken out or whether or not a particular book is available in a library?

My other question is would it be possible to expose content as JSON as well as RDF? Obviously JSON wouldn’t be as rich as RDF however for quick mashups it means you don’t have to work out how to parse the RDF first and it’ll just speed up development?

Alex Bilbie

By: Working remotely as a team « JISCPress

Working remotely as a team « JISCPress — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:22:44 +0000

[...] project and I think we can show it is a viable idea. You can read more about what we have in mind, here. [...]

By: Sharing Library Catalog Data «

Sharing Library Catalog Data « — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:38:04 +0000

[...] 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment Joss Winn has a new post on using WordPress Multi-User to share library catalog data. The idea comes as part of a proposal [...]

By: Roger Sperberg

Roger Sperberg — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:02:48 +0000

Brilliant thinking.

Using RDF for metadata avoids a site having to create its own API (or locate and choose one) and means book-metadata consumers don’t have to write tools for each API they encounter.

(Who consumes book metadata? Why any cataloguing software for personal collections and special-interest areas maintained by individuals and not institutions. I’m interested in the subject for e-book reading-device libary-management software.)

Given OCLC’s possessiveness regarding metadata, the sooner and the more widespread, the better.

Roger Sperberg

By: OpacPress – semantic union at L&LR staff blog

OpacPress – semantic union at L&LR staff blog — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:27:27 +0000

[...] Winn has blogged about a possible next stage in developing our idea of using WordPress MU+Scriblio+Triplify to [...]