A session around the use of FLOSS software and open standards/protocols in digital repositories, and the needs of digital humanities in particular. Discussions could centre around Fedora Commons, DSpace, Fez, Drupal and so on. How do we weigh rigid metadata schemata (MODS, MARC, DC-TERMS etc.) versus relying on full-text indexes, or open access versus access control, flexibility and complexity versus ease of use?

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[Update: 3 December 2013]: A blog summarizing a little of what I presented at my THATCamp session can be found here: exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/architecture-of-the-fr-org/ – Thanks to all those who attended!]

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Two-weeks back I built myself a linked file-format registry. For me, one of the biggest motivations is opening up existing data and making it more queryable…

I want to share some of that experience and provide a bit of a technical background about the implementation of that work, and what a SPARQL endpoint can do for you.

Covering:

• The motivation
• A (brief) intro to RDF / Linked Data
• Architecture
• .htaccess makes it fly! (hint: magic)
• Query mechanisms
• You… (well, what’s next)

Conclusion: The technology isn’t a silver bullet, but, make your data available on the web, and use open standards.

Further Reading…

Personal blog, covering the work: exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/the-fr-org/

A bit of an example query: bit.ly/I2xwB3 (More information on this particular query in session…)

Welcome to the the first keen bean campers, who have shared why they’re looking forward to THATCamp Wellington 2013. Perhaps you share similar interests…

• Data visualisation
• Social networks
• Text mining
• Ontologies
• Access
• Crowdsourcing
• Hacking/coding for newbies
• Hear about new projects
• Innovation in the humanities
• New digital tools and technologies

What would you like to add to the mix? Share your ideas when you sign up here.

W13 is being held on Thursday 28 November, in the Railway Building on Pipitea Campus, Victoria University of Wellington (Bunny Street).

Thanks to the generosity of our major sponsor InternetNZ, and the help of Victoria University of Wellington and Wai-te-ata Press, we’re able to keep registration to a budget-friendly $25. This will be collected on the day, and invoices and receipts can be arranged then too.

We’ll be rolling up our sleeves for a full day, from around 8.30am to 5.30pm, with post-match drinks to follow. The schedule is what we make it, but the day will roughly break down like this.

Once you’ve signed up, start thinking about the kind of session you’re going to propose. To help you get started, check out these tips.

Questions? Ideas? Drop me a line any time at thatcampwgtn@gmail.com or @thatcampwgtn