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Comment on Exploring Astronomy Dataset Links with GridWorks by William Hayes

William Hayes — Sat, 29 May 2010 02:17:40 +0000

Thank you for this. I learned a lot from this article, and I will be able to use quite a few techniques from it. I’ve been waiting to see what the next version of Exhibit would look like. Huynh is a genius.

Comment on Embedding citation metadata in the ADS HTML by lbjay

lbjay — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:36:57 +0000

@Chris: would love to see one. Of course for that to happen google would need to formalize the vocabulary, give it a namespace, etc. (like I’m suggesting).

@Jonathan: your memory must be short because the comments in that crosstech post I linked to are j-rock all the way down

Comment on Embedding citation metadata in the ADS HTML by Ed Summers

Ed Summers — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:07:31 +0000

Jay, thanks so much for dropping this into your blog. The prefix of citation_* kinda makes me wonder if there are other ones they look for…

Comment on Embedding citation metadata in the ADS HTML by Jonathan Rochkind

Jonathan Rochkind — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:47:57 +0000

Huh, I had no idea this was possible. This isn’t documented online by Google anywhere, you just have to get it from someone who knows, like you? Crazy, well thanks for sharing.

Comment on Embedding citation metadata in the ADS HTML by Chris Rusbridge

Chris Rusbridge — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:44:15 +0000

Any chance of a RDFa version?

Comment on Code4LibCon 2009: Timeline and IRC log by lbjay

lbjay — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:08:33 +0000

Timeline is back. Some python modules got lost during the last server upgrade. Sorry ’bout that.

Comment on Code4LibCon 2009: Timeline and IRC log by Jonathan Rochkind

Jonathan Rochkind — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:38:47 +0000

Is the timeline still available? I get a 500 error when clicking on the link.

Comment on My “unified” twitter + identi.ca client by divide_by_zero

divide_by_zero — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:36:08 +0000

I haven't tried that yet, but it looks awesome! =)

Comment on Code4LibCon 2009: Timeline and IRC log by Declan

Declan — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:41:40 +0000

There were Moon Pie? Dammit. I bet all new people ate them.

I was thrilled to see so many hands up when it was asked how many new people there were. I hope that Mark's initial talk about how to be social at code4lib helped.

I have a sick and twisted plan to have everyone do a FOAF, then have an event where everyone stands in a three dimensional representation of the “knows” graph and then take anyone not connected out for a drink. Hey, it's no geekier than that freakish Werewolf thingy.

Comment on Code4LibCon 2009: Timeline and IRC log by rosy1280

rosy1280 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:42:18 +0000

I think the problem is partially in what Jay says and partially in what the noobs say.

Noobs don't try hard enough because we're in a profession where people are inherently afraid to ask questions or say what they know (or don't know) and seem like an idiot. After all we're paid to maintain things that we may know absolutely nothing about, but eventually we become experts on. So as a Noob myself, I went forth and investigated the community, its practices, etc. and was able to insert myself and I feel like I've been accepted. But too be honest, if I hadn't investigated all of this in advance it would have been a completely different conference for me.

At the same time I think that the already "in people" need to remember how hard it is to be on the outside. Some are really great about extending themselves, while others aren't so great. And that's ok. By try to remember how much anxiety you have when you go into any situation and you know no one. Go up and say hi to random people, but also try to extend those conversations beyond a simple "where the hell did all the moon pies go?" Ask them where they are from, what they do, what's their sign. Essentially pick up a friend at code4lib.

Just my two cents.