Comments on: There’s an App for that http://musematic.net/2010/03/13/theres-an-app-for-that/ Rants and raves on the latest trends in the world of museum informatics and technology. An intrepid cast of experts from the Museum Computer Network and AAM's Media & Technology Committee share their insights, observations and tricks of the trade. Sun, 22 Aug 2010 01:18:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Richard Light http://musematic.net/2010/03/13/theres-an-app-for-that/comment-page-1/#comment-22032 Richard Light Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:31:05 +0000 http://musematic.net/?p=1137#comment-22032 Jeremy is right. If Getty vocabularies are to be of use in a Linked Data context, they have to be published as a set of persistent, dereferenceable URLs. This means there has to be something machine-processible on the end of them when you make a suitable HTTP request - ideally RDF, though Topic Maps would be good too. And that _has_ to be a free resource, or your conceptual framework has not really been published in a Linked Data sense. I look forward with interest to the new guidelines coming out this spring ... Jeremy is right. If Getty vocabularies are to be of use in a Linked Data context, they have to be published as a set of persistent, dereferenceable URLs. This means there has to be something machine-processible on the end of them when you make a suitable HTTP request – ideally RDF, though Topic Maps would be good too. And that _has_ to be a free resource, or your conceptual framework has not really been published in a Linked Data sense.

I look forward with interest to the new guidelines coming out this spring …

]]> By: Amalyah Keshet http://musematic.net/2010/03/13/theres-an-app-for-that/comment-page-1/#comment-22022 Amalyah Keshet Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:24:18 +0000 http://musematic.net/?p=1137#comment-22022 "which takes your compressed txt msgs and xpndz thm to smtng u cn undstnd." Hey, I invented this way of writing. When I was in university, this was my way of taking lecture notes. And that was, um, several years pre-digital. Didn't use as many z's, perhaps, which do make it look sexier. What bothers me is that it takes me FOREVER to write this way on a cellphone, and nanoseconds by hand. That's a sure sign of a digital ancestor, I fear. “which takes your compressed txt msgs and xpndz thm to smtng u cn undstnd.”

Hey, I invented this way of writing. When I was in university, this was my way of taking lecture notes. And that was, um, several years pre-digital.

Didn’t use as many z’s, perhaps, which do make it look sexier. What bothers me is that it takes me FOREVER to write this way on a cellphone, and nanoseconds by hand. That’s a sure sign of a digital ancestor, I fear.

]]> By: Jeremy http://musematic.net/2010/03/13/theres-an-app-for-that/comment-page-1/#comment-22014 Jeremy Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:19:11 +0000 http://musematic.net/?p=1137#comment-22014 It will indeed. Especially when they're free ;-) Seriously, having the vocabularies is vital, of course, but whilst ULAN, AAT & co. may be the amongst first examples people reach for when talking vocab, cost is an issue to them actually becoming the common language of linked data/semantic web. This has to be dealt with or I expect that the business of controlled vocabularies will stall. Not that I know how or nuffink! It will indeed. Especially when they’re free ;-)
Seriously, having the vocabularies is vital, of course, but whilst ULAN, AAT & co. may be the amongst first examples people reach for when talking vocab, cost is an issue to them actually becoming the common language of linked data/semantic web. This has to be dealt with or I expect that the business of controlled vocabularies will stall. Not that I know how or nuffink!

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