This is a web version for reference of a .docx file originally produced for the Mashcat 2012 session I did called How Big Is My Book. Resurrected to form the Manual for Meret, a regular expressions tutorial based on Marcedit…
Articles about Linked Data, MARC, Bibframe, and Authority Control
Below are some articles I wrote for Catalogue & Index, the periodical of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG). They are all now freely available as PDFs in UCL’s repository. The first three were written following CIG”s Linked Data:…
MRV MARC Record Viewer
I have finally completed a multiple record MARC Record Viewer. This has been rather long in the making but is essentially a quick and practical tool for looking at and assessing MARC records without having to load them into specialist…
One record in lots of data formats
For a Dev8d session I did with Owen Stephens in February I presented data for a single book and followed how it had changed as standards changed, trying above to explain to non-cataloguers why catalogue records look and work the…
MARC Viewer Codecademy Project
I have created a Codecademy project (with a lot of help in corrections and improvements from Esther Arens!) that builds a short script to read a raw MARC record and display it in a more readable format. Try it here:…
Lodopac example searches
Yay, my entry for the Discovery & DevCSI Developers Competition– Lodopac– was awarded a commendation for its use of the Cambridge University Library (CUL) dataset. During the judging I was asked for searches which were known to work well- the…
Sparql recipes for bibliographic data
One of the difficulties in searching RDF data is knowing what the data looks like. For instance, finding a book by its title means knowing something about what how a dataset has recorded the relationship between a book and its…
Lodopac : simple Linked Open Data OPAC
Lodopac is my entry to the UK Discovery Developer Competition. Aside from obvious mocking of the name, comments on Lodopac are very welcome. If anyone installs it locally, I’d also be very interested to know. About Lodopac Lodopac is a…
Customizing Classification Web with Greasemonkey
Classification Web is ace, but there are a couple of things about the interface that annoy me and, in one colleague’s case, seriously put him off using it, in particular: The opening of a new tab/window when you click on…
In Our Time booklist
I have written a script which takes an unstructured reading list on the BBC’s In Our Time website, searches the British National Bibliography (BNB) using bibliographica for the books on the list, and returns structured metadata for the records it…