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The first full day at code4lib included a slew of 20 minute talks on various library and coding topics today. The opening speaker stefano mazzocchi pushed on the idea about how the change to digital will impact how we encode and transport information. The interesting angle on this discussion was the representation of the reduction in marginal costs o/f additional works and copies. His demo section included several examples from an open database paltform called freebase in which he showed some on the fly data mapping and re-use applications.
The day included lots of presentation on interesting ideas including
- Dashboard data services – http://library.brown.edu/dashboard/info/
- AtomPub – a low-barrier extensible xml data model
- http://enjoysthin.gs/ – a social site that bookmarks primary textual and digital objects within their original context.
- E-matrix from NCSU
and a host of other neat topics.
The themes of linked data, rdf formatted data, and automated processing of information continue to be popular discussion topics. “Unified discovery” and “local indexing” were very popular products.