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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • Thursday Threads: RDF, Digital Document Tampering, and Amazon's Mechanical Turk

    This is definitely becoming a habit...welcome to the fourth edition of DLTJ's Thursday Threads. Feel free to send this newsletter to others you think might be interested in the topics. If you are not already subscribed to DLTJ's Thursday Threads, visit the sign-up page. If you would like …

     Posted on  October 21, 2010
     and last updated October 21, 2010
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Specifications for Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) published

    ORE Logo The first production version of the Object Reuse and Exchange from the Open Archives Initiative was published today. In the words of the release announcement, ORE provides "the foundation for applications and services that can visualize, preserve, transfer, summarize, and improve access to the aggregations that people use in their …

     Posted on  October 17, 2008
     and last updated October 17, 2008
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • "Object Reuse and Exchange" Beta Specifications Now Available

    Carl Lagoze of Cornell University and Herbert Van de Sompel of Los Alamos National Laboratory announced the release of the beta form of the ORE specifications yesterday. Here is the full text of their announcement:

    Over the past eighteen months the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), in a project called Object …

     Posted on  June 03, 2008
     and last updated June 03, 2008
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Would the Real "Dublin Core" Please Stand Up?

    I've been following the discussion by Stu Weibel on his blog about the relationship between Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Dublin Core Abstract Model (DCAM), and I think I'm as confused as ever. It comes as a two part posting with comments by Andy Powell Pete Johnston (apologies, Pete), Mikael …

     Posted on  February 18, 2008
     and last updated February 18, 2008
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Presentation Summary: "Cross-Repository Semantic Interoperability: the MIT SIMILE Project"

    Richard Rodgers presented this talk based on the work of he and MacKenzie Smith in the Digital Library Research Group at MIT. The original abstract of the presentation was:

    Many questions are raised as previously unreachable digital content is found in and among new repositories--is each repository an island or …

     Posted on  January 29, 2007
     and last updated January 29, 2007
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • Presentation Summary: "MPTStore: Implementing a fast, scalable, and stable RDBMS-backed triplestore for Fedora and the NSDL"

    Chris Wilper gave this presentation on behalf of the work that he and Aaron Birkland did to improve the performance of the Fedora Resource Index.


    Presentation slides via SlideShare

    Version 2.0 of the Fedora digital object repository software added a feature called the Resource Index (RI). Based on Resource …

     Posted on  January 29, 2007
     and last updated January 29, 2007
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • Representing Collections In FEDORA

    One of the DRC developers had a question recently that sparked a discussion about what to do with collections of objects. In order to answer the question of how to represent the notion of a collection within the repository, we're going to have to get pretty heavy into RDF: the …

     Posted on  July 25, 2006
     and last updated July 25, 2006
     ·  5 minutes reading time