Archive for April, 2009
The Next Wave of Federated Stuff and the Role of Libraries in the Stuffing Recipe
Posted by admin in Library World on April 20th, 2009
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2009a.spring/abstracts/PB-next-klingenstein.html
Federation continues to evolve, spreading in scope, growing rapidly in membership, being applied to layers from networked devices to scholarly repositories, enabling more effective collaborations and collaboration tools, evolving in services offered and steady in its introduction of new issues that libraries could have a hand in addressing.
References cited:
- Identity Related Resources
- Federated Killer Apps
Reference sent by Brian Schottlaender
Open Library Environment Project
Posted by admin in Library World on April 20th, 2009
The goal of the Open Library Environment Project is to define a next-generation technology environment based on a thoroughly re-examined model of library operations and connected to other enterprise technology systems. Our project activities include training workshops on Service Oriented Architecture and Business Process Modeling, in-person and virtual meetings, webcasts and online discussions to get input and feedback from the broad library community, and development of a design document.
OLE Project Reference Model
Reference sent by Brian Schottlaender
Clustered Triplestore Implementatins Can Scale Well
From an interview with Chris Bizer developer of 
Many companies start to build their own “corporate semantic web”, one of the first questions regarding the technical architecture is which triple store should be chosen. Can you recommend a method to pick the right one?
The performance of triple stores was a bottle neck a while ago, but things have improved a lot over the last two years. There are cluster editions of several triple stores now and when deployed on a proper server farm or cloud infrastructure, the stores scale very well. An indicator that might be helpful for choosing a store could be the results of the Berlin SPARQL benchmark which compares the query performance of various triple stores and SPARQL-to-SQL rewriters.
“JSON Has Dethroned XML for Pure Data Interchange”
Given browser vendor’s almost universal focus on improving JavaScript performance, it’s not hard to suspect that this is true, but it’s interesting to see confirmation in this quote from Brendan Eich (creator of JavaScript and current CTO of Mozilla foundation, developers of FireFox) taken from:
Brendan Eich explains ECMAScript Fifth Edition to you
referring to:
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