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Good explanation of "API" and "stack."
© The Author(s), 2014. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in BMC Research Notes 7 (2014): 79, doi:10.1186/1756-0500-7-79.
Includes a lot about why music cataloging is a PITA. Also points out that the identifier situation in cataloging generally and music cataloging specifically is pretty dire.
. @catapanoth Agreed, it’s just that I think there’s a much bigger win to be had by exploiting existing services instead of going it alone...
Often when I am with groups of librarians talking about linked data, this question comes up: "What can we do TODAY to get ready for linked...
Nice use-case for "what we organize and why."
On FOAF, identifiers, and authority control.
The recent leak of a million UDIDs has users asking questions about privacy.
Nerdy but mostly-lucid history and status of persistent identifiers. Includes librarians complaining about 404s!
There are millions of people in the United States. How many people have your name?
Comparison of handles, ARKs, PURLs, DOIs, etc. etc.
ISO standard for uniquely identifying people and organizations, including fictional ones.
When I was in grad school , my housemates and I would sit around the dinner table and have endless debates about obscure facts like "there's...
Given various discussions about identifiers, dark taxa, and DNA barcoding that have been swirling around the last few weeks, there's one no...
Lots of useful explication on what makes a good identifier.