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Core : Three Access Levels To Underpin Open Access
Digital libraries beyond search and access
...going "beyond search and access" while not ignoring these functions has already been explored in Lagoze, et al. (2005). The authors argue that digital libraries need to add value to web resources by extending current metadata models to allow establishing and representing…
Making Uris Dereferenceable | Ontogenealogy
How URIs identifying information and non-information resources are dereferenced
URI Dereferencing is the process of looking up a URI on the Web in order to get information about the referenced resource. The W3C’s Dereferencing HTTP URIs distinguished between how URIs identifying information and non-information resources are dereferenced: Information…
Philosophy Engines: Technology And Reading/writing/thinking Philosophy
Digital philosophy
Are the philosophical virtues of clarity, rigour and explicitness aided by these astounding computational resources?
Rdf Primer
RDF describes containers, it doesn't build them
When using RDF containers, it is important to understand that the statements are not constructing containers, as in a programming language data structure. Instead, the statements are describing containers (groups of things) that presumably exist. [...] Saying that the resource…
Anything with a URI reference is a resource
Because of this generality, RDF uses URIs as the basis of its mechanism for identifying the subjects, predicates, and objects in statements. To be more precise, RDF uses URI references [URIS]. A URI reference (or URIref) is a URI, together with an optional fragment identifier…
Setting a base URI with XML Base
...relative URIrefs such as #item10245 will be interpreted relative to a base URI. By default, this base URI would be the URI of the resource in which the relative URIref is used. However, in some cases it is desirable to be able to explicitly specify this base URI. For…
What counts as a class in RDF Schema
RDF classes can be used to represent almost any category of thing, such as Web pages, people, document types, databases or abstract concepts. Classes are described using the RDF Schema resources rdfs:Class and rdfs:Resource, and the properties rdf:type and rdfs:subClassOf…
No locally different ranges in RDF Schema
Another result of the global scope of RDF property descriptions is that it is not possible in an RDF schema to define a specific property as having locally-different ranges depending on the class of the resource it is applied to. For example, in defining the property…
Naming statements happens outside RDF
RDF does not provide a built-in way of indicating how a URIref like exproducts:triple12345 is associated with a particular statement or graph, any more than it provides a built-in way of indicating how a URIref like exproducts:item10245 is associated with an actual tent…
The typed node abbreviation in RDF/XML
It is fairly common in RDF for resources to have rdf:type properties that describe the resources as instances of specific types or classes. Such resources are called typed nodes in the graph, or typed node elements in the RDF/XML. RDF/XML provides a special abbreviation for…
RDF is for applications, not display
RDF is intended for situations in which this information needs to be processed by applications, rather than being only displayed to people. RDF provides a common framework for expressing this information so it can be exchanged between applications without loss of meaning. RDF…
Container semantics are only intended meanings
It is important to understand that while these types of containers are described using predefined RDF types and properties, any special meanings associated with these containers, e.g., that the members of an Alt container are alternative values, are only intended meanings…
Anyone can say anything about any resource
These examples also illustrate one of the basic architectural principles of the Web, which is that anyone should be able to freely add information about an existing resource, using any vocabulary they please [BERNERS-LEE98]. The examples further illustrate that the RDF…
Resource Description Framework - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Reification, contexts and named graphs
The body of knowledge modeled by a collection of statements may be subjected to reification, in which each statement (that is each triple subject-predicate-object altogether) is assigned a URI and treated as a resource about which additional statements can be made, as in "Jane…
The Digital Humanities Situation | The Transducer
Digital humanities as a gentrifying small town
To many, the digital humanities feels like a small town that has recently been rated as a great place to raise a family. It is now inundated by developers who want to build condos for newcomers who are competing for resources and who may not understand local…
The Library Catalogue In The New Discovery Environment: Some Thoughts | Ariadne
We cannot expect the user to come to the library any more
In a pre-network world, where information resources were relatively scarce and attention relatively abundant, users built their workflow around the library. In a networked world, where information resources are relatively abundant, and attention is relatively scarce, we cannot…
The Psychology Behind Information Dashboards
How dashboards create a sense of control
Most information dashboards use a three-pronged strategy to establish a sense of control: Giving you a clear understanding of things to help establish a feeling of certainty Giving you the resources to predict and plan for the future Helping you complete critical tasks in time…
The Tao Of Topic Maps
Subject identity in topic maps
The goal with topic maps is to achieve a one-to-one relationship between topics and the subjects that they represent, in order to ensure that all knowledge about a particular subject can be accessed via a single topic. However, sometimes the same subject is represented by more…
Facet (of a topic map)
Sometimes it is convenient to be able to assign metadata to the information resources that constitute the occurrences of a topic from within the topic map. To provide this capability, the standard includes the concept of the facet. Facets basically provide a mechanism for…
What Is A Digital Library Anymore, Anyway ?
Purpose of a digital library: much more than search engine portals
As suggested by Borgman [14-16], digital libraries should match and indeed dramatically extend traditional libraries. As such, they should be much more than search engine portals. Like any library they should feature a high degree of selection of resources that meet criteria…
Yet Another Post About Google (not Really) Removing The Url Bar From Chrome | Smethurst
URLs stopped being identifiers and became labels
A few years back I always used to say a good URL should be three things: - Persistent - Readable - Hackable And the greatest of these was persistent. Three is a nice number and I enjoy a biblical reference or two but I’m not sure I ever really thought hackable mattered. It’s a…
review: Big Data Book By Nathan Marz – Swaroop, The Dreamer
Scalability
Scalability is the ability of a system to maintain performance under increased load by adding more resources.