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9/11 tragedy pager intercepts.

The following are national US pager intercepts that cover the September 11 tragedy from 3am on the same day (Tuesday) until 3am the following day.

Due to popular demand we provide a new block of pager data every 5 minutes, synchronized to the actual time of day the message was sent.

This way the world has a chance to objectively see how the tragedy progressed.

A full archive containing all the messages will be released on Thursday November 26 at the conclusion.

For a little while I had been taking pictures of objects, furniture, buildings and other things in my environment where I recognised, however abstract, a face.

Recently I’ve been doing some ‘gardening’. You can see this clearly from these images on NearMap…. What’s really special about NearMap apart from the fact they are updating imagery more often than I am at home is that they have integrated OSM into their viewer and you can use their data to update OSM:

This imaginative and insightful approach got me thinking about a related problem I’ve been keen to address for some time: data entry. How can we use paper as a more effective channel for information flow during and after humanitarian emergencies?

Martha asks a number of questions about RDF in the article. Even the title is a question: "Can Bibliographic data be Put Directly onto the Semantic Web?" (Answer: it already is ) Martha is conducting an admirable gedanken experiment about the future of cataloging, creating her own cataloging code and trying to mesh her ideas with concepts coming out of the semantic web community. The article's value is not only in her conclusions but in the questions that she raises. In its unfinished state, Martha's thinking is provocative and just begging for further discussion and development.

Library for Role based development.

Pythonic implementation of the DCI (Data Context Interaction) pattern (http://www.artima.com/articles/dci_vision.html).

The big difference with mixins is that this role is applied only to the subject instance, not to the subject class (alas, a new class is constructed).

Roles can be assigned and revoked. Multiple roles can be applied to an instance. Revocation can happen in any particular order.

Finalement, nous avons discuté organisation et compétences (deux thèmes qui me tiennent fort à cœur ;-) car si nous voulons vraiment que le Linked Data ait un avenir dans les bibliothèques, il va falloir que différents niveaux d'acteurs s'y intéressent et s'y investissent. De ce point de vue, la désaffection de la profession pour les questions de métadonnées (yes, MARC c'est tellement has been) me paraît inquiétante.

stsci_python is a library of Python routines and C extensions that has been developed to provide a general astronomical data analysis infrastructure.

Ce site constitue un prototype pour démontrer les possibilités de mashup avec les données du Linked Data et les technologies du Web sémantique.

This site lets you explore traffic patterns of MBTA commuters across the various lines and stations over a single day. The data for this visualization was released as part of the Visualization Challenge by the Executive Office of Transportation.

The CLOUD proposes an entirely new form of observation deck,connecting visitors to both the whole of London and the whole of the world, immersing them in euphoric gusts of weather and digital data. Each individual footstep on the ascent to the CLOUD participates in a vast collective energy-harvesting effort. Everyone around the world can contribute to the Cloud - whether by visiting or by sponsoring an LED, helping to keep the London lamp aflame.

Geoplanet is a database of 5.4 million places in a hierarchy. Each entry has a unique, permanent ID (WOEID), a name and a place type. For example, Homerton (20089379) is a Suburb in the London Borough of Hackney (12695808), which is a LocalAdmin in London (44418), which is a Town in Greater London (23416974), and so on.

The Closure Library is a broad, well-tested, modular, and cross-browser JavaScript library. You can pull just what you need from a large set of reusable UI widgets and controls, and from lower-level utilities for DOM manipulation, server communication, animation, data structures, unit testing, rich-text editing, and more.