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I really struggled to shoehorn everything I wanted to talk about during my ILI 2009 presentation into the slides, so this blog post goes into a bit more depth than I'll probably talk about…
slide 1 & 2
I'm still in two minds about whether or not the word "exploit" has too many negative connotations, [...]
For those of you interested in the developer competition being run by the JISC MOSAIC Project, I've put together a quick & dirty API for the available data sets. If it's easier for you, you can use this API to develop your competition entry rather than working with the entire downloaded data set.
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A good couple of years ago, I blogged about "lending paths", but we've not really progressed things any further since then. I still like the idea that you can somehow predict books that people might/should borrow and also when you might get a sudden rush of demand on a particular title.
Anyway, whilst heading back [...]
About 90 minutes ago, I had the pleasure of doing a short presentation to the JISC TILE Project's "Sitting on a gold mine" workshop in London. Unfortunately I wasn't able to present in person, so we had a go doing it all via a video conferencing link. As far as I can tell, [...]
I'm very proud to announce that Library Services at the University of Huddersfield has just done something that would have perhaps been unthinkable a few years ago: we've just released a major portion of our book circulation and recommendation data under an Open Data Commons/CC0 licence. In total, there's data for over 80,000 titles [...]
Okay — I'm the first to admit I don't blog enough… I still haven't even blogged about how great Mashed Library 2008 was (luckily other attendees have already blogged about it!)
Anyway, unless I get run over by a bus, later on this week I'm going to post something fairly big — well, it's about [...]
The joys of free wifi slightly make up for the fact that I'm stuck on a train that's going nowhere fast — the East Coast main line is suffering long delays due to the train which was ahead of mine managing to damage and bring down the overhead power lines :-S
Today was the first meeting [...]