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Deliver my books bitch.
I tried out Cornell Library’s book-delivery service this week. A nice stack of David Foster Wallace books quickly appeared at my workplace yesterday afternoon, and I got a friendly call when they...
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SxSw Analog Tagging
More analog tagging from South by Southwest Interactive… photo by noneck I’m trying to start a trend. Conference badges need more than just geographic metadata. Together we can raise the level of...
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Oldschool Metadata
Binders of field notes sit in the common area of the Macaulay library, the audio/video library where I spent three years working as a software interface designer. These are all digitized now, but the...
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Shh. “The Library” is the subject of the Freebase Data Mob
I’m a librarian by ethnicity, if not profession these days, and there’s nothing I like better than free information. Free as in beer and free as in speech. Which is why I like Freebase. Freebase is a...
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Freebase Hack Day II: The Return of Hack Day
Librarian? Data junkie? Obsessive compulsive? Come to the Freebase hack day on July 11, 2009 here in SF. There’s food, drinks, an excellent network, plenty of powercords, and a nice room full of geeks...
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Me, bouncing around onstage at an O’Reilly Conference
Above is a photo of me undergoing a brief moment of Muppetface onstage. Last week I spoke at OSCON Ignite, the evening entertainment bit of the O’Reilly Open Source Conference and the Google Awards....
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Data munging
Recently I’ve been importing the ancient Librarian Avengers archives to live within WordPress. Because the site goes back to…hrm… 1997, there’s some data munging to do. Right now I’m concerning myself...
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The Librarian Avengers Film Rating System
Dear Film industry: Your metadata is not granular enough. The MPIAA ratings G, PG, PG-13, and R do not fulfill my needs. I need information relevant to my particular disinterests. I need to know ahead...
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