OCLC Research and the RLG Partnership planning committee have sponsored a two-day event Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership Through Collaboration focused on strategies for effective collaboration. This event will be at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C, on September 20-21, 2010. Eric Miller from Zepheira will be speaking on the power of global collaborations providing a critical take on the creation and maintenance of standards. The focus of this talk with be the sphere of common values collaboration including standards and policies for copyright and data aggregation, the commons and open data movements, and the practical application of these values in accelerating a web of Linked Data.
On 20 July 2010 in Arlington VA, Library of Congress held a Recollection workshop at the Digital Preservation Partners Meeting. The well-attended workshop featured an introduction to the digital preservation and access platform and a session where attendees could build Web applications with their own data within 30 minutes, and could showcase these to other workshop participants. Zepheira was in attendance as the developer of the Recollection platform and supporter of NDIIPP.
On 20 July 2010 in Arlington VA, Library of Congress held a Recollectionworkshop at the Digital Preservation Partners Meeting. Thewell-attended workshop featured an introduction to the digitalpreservation and access platform and a session where attendees couldbuild Web applications with their own data within 30 minutes, and couldshowcase these to other workshop participants. Zepheira was inattendance as the developer of the Recollection platform and supporter of NDIIPP.
The mission of the National Digital Information Infrastructure andPreservation Program (NDIIPP) is to develop a national strategy tocollect, preserve and make available significant digital content,especially information that is created in digital form only, for currentand future generations. In 2008, the NDIIPP partners shared contentthrough a simple web page. In order to explore more useful tools andprocesses for sharing diverse content across partners? collections, the Library began the Project Recollection Pilot in 2009 with Zepheira todevelop a proof of concept that can be used to collect and exploreinformation about digital collections.
The Library of Congress will hold the annual Digital Preservation Partners Meeting July 20 – 22, 2010 in Arlington, VA. Themes include “Collaboratives”, “Information Environment” and “Expanding the Archive”. A half day workshop will be held on Recollection, a project with the U.S. Library of Congress and the National Digital Information Infrastructure Partner Program (NDIIPP) designed to enhance discoverable access for NDIIPP collections, making them easier to find, access, and share, and especially to integrate with other digital information sources. Zepheira has worked in partnership with the Library since 2009 to design and build the Recollection platform.
Zepheira will be presenting two papers at the W3C RDF Next Step Workshop on the future of RDF on June 26-27, 2010. The goal of the workshop is to gather feedback from the Semantic Web community on whether and in which direction RDF should evolve.
Zepheira will present a new RESTful RDF Store API supporting named queries and change isolation. Zepheira will also propose alternative handling of rdf:List in SPARQL. For more information on the workshop and to review the papers look here.
Callimachus is a Semantic Web framework for easily building hyperlinked Web applications. Callimachus allows Web authors to quickly and easily create Semantically-enabled Web applications with a minimal knowledge of Semantic Web principles or experience building other Web applications. Callimachus uses RDFa as both a query language and display template to make it quick and easy to create your own metadata management tools.
For more information about Callimachus visit the project page at http://callimachusproject.org
The North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) 25th Annual Conference will be held on June 3-6, 2010 in Palm Springs, California. The NASIG Vision Sessions are designed to speak to some of the important issues facing the serials community: how can we leverage the data we have? What changes are facing publishing? And what are the systems libraries need to manage serials in this environment? Eric Miller from Zepheira will be providing the Vision Session on Linked Data and Libraries with the goal of addressing these concerns. The following abstract provides an overview of this presentation.
SemTech 2010 is the premier semantic technologies event held in San Francisco CA June 21-25, 2010.SemTech 2010 is where the industry comes together for four days of tutorials, workshops and talks on the future of the Web. Sessions at SemTech 2010 will explain Linked Data (and Linked open Data) technologies, and how you can start to use them yourself. Please join Zepheira where David Wood and Bernadette Hyland will be leading a half day tutorial on Linked Enterprise Data on Tuesday, June 22, 2010. Read more
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has announced the development and hosting of new Persistent URL (PURL) architecture by Zepheira. GPO’s PURL service provides persistent Web addresses for critical government documents and is primarily used by the more than 1,200 Federal Depository Libraries. GPO PURLs are open to members of the public. Read more
Building on activity undertaken during the recent Akara project sprint, developers pushed an update to the two main packages which the project comprises, in particular:
Amara XML and data toolkit 2.0a4
Akara 2.0a1, a framework for RESTful data services
These releases focus on quality and performance.