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At Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:08:23 -0800, Aaron Swartz <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Hi code4libbers! As part of my work on Open Library, I've been doing > what I expect a lot of you find yourself doing: collecting big batches > of MARC records, testing algorithms for processing them, building > interesting ways to visualize them. And what I've found is that while > the community of other people doing this in libraries is really > valuable, I also have a lot to learn from people who do this sort of > thing with other types of data. So I'm trying to build a > code4lib-style community around people who work with large data sets > of all kinds: > > http://theinfo.org/ > > I hope that you'll take a look and join the mailing lists and get > involved. I think that there's a lot we could do together. Hi Aaron & al. Looks like a great project. Thanks also for plugging the WARC format. I added a bit to the wiki on this. I have a bit of trouble differentiating this from the Linking Open Data project[1]. Perhaps some info on the wiki about this would be helpful. best, Erik Hetzner 1. <http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData> ;; Erik Hetzner, California Digital Library ;; gnupg key id: 1024D/01DB07E3