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VALA2014 Session 2 Balnaves

Complex harvesting for content from public sources and email

VALA2014 CONCURRENT SESSION 2: It’s All About the Data
Tuesday 4 February 2014, 12:00 – 12:30
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2014-proceedings/vala2014-session-2-balnaves

Edmund Balnaves

Prosentient Systems, NSW

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Abstract

This paper presents the results of a project for complex harvesting system from web and email sources integrated with open source platforms to improve discovery of information about or relevant to the organisation from public internet sources. The paper discusses methods of harvesting, drawing on a mix of RSS, Google API search and simple web parsing. The paper presents the results of automated metadata allocation and subsequent manual curation. The project highlights the need to use multiple web scanning techniques, so as to be sufficiently exhaustive to catch relevant references, but also sufficiently specific to avoid unduly large false positive candidates for selection.

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VALA2010 L-Plate Session 2 Library Mashups and APIs

VALA L PlateMonday 8 February, 13:30 – 14:00

More and more libraries are using freely available open source APIs to add value and functionality to their existing online collections and content.  An application programming interface (API) is an interface implemented by a software program to enable interaction with other software, similar to the way a user interface facilitates interaction between humans and computers.

Presenter: Paul Hagon

In his own words Paul Hagon is a web developer at the National Library of Australia. Before this he worked at the Australian War Memorial so he has acknowledged there is something he loves about working at cultural institutions. He has been playing around on the web since the days of Netscape 1.0 and has worked in the business professionally since 1999. When he’s not on the computer you can find him out running or riding. You can follow Paul’s activities here or at Flickr, Twitter or delicious..

Paul is one of the leading figures in the library mashup / API frontier in Australian. In 2010 Paul was the first Australian to be recognised by the Library Journal as a Mover and Shaker for Technical Leadership. VALA is therefore delighted Paul kindly agreed to talk to the topic of library mashups and APIs at the VALA2010 L Plate Series.

  • Content from this L Plate Session will soon be made available online.