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Comment on Checking if xml is well formed using xmllint by ecorrado

ecorrado — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:52:31 +0000

Incidently, I noticed if I don’t add the noout option to xmllint, it will convert some of these non-Roman character sets to their Hex Refernce. This may prove useful at some point (although I’m not sure that it is the best tool for that)

Comment on Checking if xml is well formed using xmllint by ecorrado

ecorrado — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:47:55 +0000

Thanks for the tip Roy. In this case I don't have a stylesheet just something that says what a Google Scholar holdings file should look like.

Comment on Checking if xml is well formed using xmllint by Roy Tennant

Roy Tennant — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:29:52 +0000

Interestingly enough, xsltproc (part of libxml2) can be used for this as well. Although xsltproc expects an XSLT stylesheet as part of the call, and will complain if it doesn’t see one:

% xsltproc sample.xml
compilation error: file sample.xml line 2 element cite
xsltParseStylesheetProcess : document is not a stylesheet

if the XML doc is malformed it will instead complain about that:

% xsltproc brokensample.xml
brokensample.xml:17: parser error : Premature end of data in tag cite line 16

^
brokensample.xml:17: parser error : Premature end of data in tag cite line 2

^
cannot parse brokensample.xml

I’ve used this at times this way to verify well-formedness.

Comment on Top 11 College rankings by ecorrado

ecorrado — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:02:36 +0000

Bill: Point taking about Kansas State. Their current coach likes cupcakes. I didn’t realize they cancelled a game with Oregon this year. Still they did play Miami and the Ducks won’t play anyone of that calibre out of conference this year. That said, Oregon will have a chance to move up as they start playing tougher in-conference opponents and, assuming they continue to win, as teams in front of them stumble.

Comment on Top 11 College rankings by Bill kelm

Bill kelm — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:48:05 +0000

Oddly, you should question Oregon’s not wanting to play out of conference, and then list the team (Kansas State) who backed out of their game with the Ducks this year, ahead of them.

Comment on What I did on my September Vacation by Kyle Denlinger

Kyle Denlinger — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 05:59:02 +0000

Thanks for coming to our class! It was great to meet you.

Comment on Library Linked Data by Jodi Schneider

Jodi Schneider — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:39:50 +0000

Regarding the problems Linked Data can solve for libraries -- there are a few suggestions in comments related to this post on the public LLD mailing list, e.g. from Ross Singer and from me.

Comment on RDA and transforming to a new bibliographic framework by Karen Coyle

Karen Coyle — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:03:14 +0000

Ed, are you aware that RDA data elements and vocabularies have been defined in RDF — more particularly, OWL and SKOS? Go to:

http://metadataregistry.org/rdabrowse.htm

This has been done in collaboration with the JSC (the creators/owners of RDA).

Comment on MARC is better than Dublin Core by Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:23:37 +0000

Ultimately the question of “better” needs context.

“Better” for whom, for example? It’s clear you implicitly mean “librarians”, but I would just point out that MARC only seems to make sense to library people, who have been trained in its use. It is almost entirely ignored outside the library world, in favor of simpler data representations: from simple DC in an HTML head, to microformats, to DC as RDFa. I have heard prominent microformat people even proclaim DC too complex/esoteric (hence you see no hDC microformat).

And by “DC” exactly what representation of it? It seems to me quite useful in the context of RDF, where you can use the basic terms for broad description, and then supplement it with other vocabulary terms for more specific purposes.

I guess you can tell where I stand on MARC 😉

Comment on University of Florida MARC Records avilable as CC0 by jonathan rochkind

jonathan rochkind — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 01:29:16 +0000

It is not redundant, it’s being clear. CC0, alone among all current CC licenses, applies fine to things that weren’t in fact copyrightable in the first place, it’s basically just saying “In case this was copyrightable, I’m releasing the copyright.”