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Ben

Research software engineer, semi-professional sysadmin, geek

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Library Linked Data @code4lib.net
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Keynote presentation by Sarven Capadisli for SWIB 2023

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GCHQ's CyberChef – use it for creating and scrambling (unit) test data!

While working on parsing news articles, that I cannot include with the code because they are copyrighted, I just realised that there are online tools to help "scramble" the contents so that the shape is the same. I'm still looking into it, but GCHQ's CyberChef looks very useful here.

The Default Community @code4lib.net
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A survey to understand how researchers use metadata for creating literary corpora

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OpenAtlas is an open source database software developed especially to acquire, edit and manage research data from various fields of humanities like history, archaeology and cultural heritage…

First time I hear about OpenAtlas, which appears to be a competitor to Nodegoat and I guess ResearchSpace.

Research Software Engineering @code4lib.net
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LexisNexisTools: a maintained R package for working with LexisNexis or Nexis Uni articles

My PhD supervisor once told me that everyone doing newspaper analysis starts by writing code to read in files from the 'LexisNexis' newspaper archive. However, while I do recommend this exercise, not everyone has the time.

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Library Linked Data @code4lib.net
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FAIR does not imply the use of Linked Data or RDF, but it does seem useful. This is not just a list of tools, there is more context to most of them.

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Allow the packet buffer size to be overridden by know-it-alls.

There are many interesting comments in this driver file.

Research Software Engineering @code4lib.net
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I'm glad that when I thought "hmm, maybe I can optimise my code that generates IIIF annotations with Pydantic", I remembered that I don't have to build my own Models :D

Library Linked Data @code4lib.net
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Lots of interesting talks and workshops on the programme for Semantic Web in Libraries 2023!

  • The Free Software Foundation Europe provides a REUSE compliance check GitHub Action too :)

  • Research Software Engineering @code4lib.net
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    Clear licensing: How to become REUSE-compliant

    These guidelines look simple and make your code not much more verbose.

    Library Linked Data @code4lib.net
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    EUacademy: Comparing Wikibase and Semantic Mediawiki for practical Linked Data applications

    You could also watch the recordings of the hybrid event, but there is a certificate to be earned here...

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    First Public Working Drafts: RDF 1.2 Semantics and SPARQL 1.2 Entailment Regimes | W3C News

    Using triples as subject or object of another triple is possible with RDF 1.2.