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DASe & Metadata
Early in the development of the DASe project we decided/realized that the ONLY way we would be able to quickly and efficiently deal with all of the various digital collections we hoped to incorporate...
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Roy Fielding’s latest post discusses the differences between software implementations, architectures, and architectural styles. Having spent the last few months rewriting DASe to adhere more closely to...
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REST Presentation
Here’s the PDF slide set of a talk I gave the IT community at UT Austin on June 25, 2008. Real World REST with Atom/AtomPub
View ArticleOAI-ORE & Atom
There have been some interesting conversations lately regarding the OAI-ORE specification, especially its use of Atom as a serialization format. I have great respect for the folks behind OAI-ORE, and...
View ArticleDigital Library Federation Presentation
Here are the slides from my DLF Forum 2008 presentation titled “The Role of Atom/AtomPub in Digital Archive Services at The University of Texas at Austin.”
View ArticleWhat is Data’s Killer App?
I read with great interest both Peter Brantley’s Reality dreams (for Libraries) and Dorothea Salo’s Top-down or bottom-up? as both address the increasingly obvious need for data systems support in...
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Take Two
I’ve had a few responses to my last post that take issue with my seemingly one-size-fits-all, here’s-a-silver-bullet proposal, including Magical thinking in data curation from Dorothea Salo (whose...
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Layers
I’d like drill down on one element of the arguments I made in my last two posts. I alluded to it, and it’s an idea that’s ever-present in my thinking. It’s the idea of layering or separation of...
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