[Originally posted by Jessica Dussault, October 9, 2015 on Github Pages] In part II of this series, we learned how to run a basic query on some RDF. In this part, I’ll be explaining some of the queries that we are running behind the scenes to power the O Say Can You See website. This…
Read More Figuring Out RDF and SPARQL: Part III Some Queries[Originally posted by Jessica Dussault, July 6, 2015 on Github Pages] In Part I of the RDF crash course, I provided some examples of the types of information that you can get out of an RDF file. I stopped just at the point where the floor was falling out from under me in other tutorials.…
Read More Figuring out RDF and SPARQL: Part II Getting Set Up[Originally posted by Jessica Dussault, June 22, 2015 on Github Pages] Linked Data. The Semantic Web. A lot of those terms have been rattling around in my brain for years, picked up from various digital humanities events and lectures. We started on a new project that hopes to use linked data to analyze relationships between…
Read More Figuring Out RDF and SPARQL: Part I Triples[Originally posted by Jessica Dussault, June 17, 2015 on Github Pages] We recently finished work on making the Nebraska Newspapers version of the Chronicling America project, which involved moving around lots of really, really large files like tiffs. I got off to a rocky start because my computer was having trouble connecting to the network…
Read More Network Drive Connection Problems (and Solution)[Originally published by Jessica Dussault on March 9, 2015 on Github Pages] Thursday, I took a road trip to Omaha to watch the ng-conf (angular.js conference) with some nice folks from The Garage by Aviture. I have very little experience with angular besides scanning through their docs a few times, but I thought it would…
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