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Random House Insight

A new API from random house to search book contents and retrieve digitized page views. Looks potentially useful though I haven’t checked out all of the terms:

Through the Insight Service, keyword searches can get inside actual book content and find matches against the full text of the book. Insight can then serve up the pages [...]

Ending a free web service

Sifting through the 200+ starred items in Google Reader I meant to blog months ago. One of the things I’ve always liked about Amazon was the versioned web-service. When they add features or change the structure your old application is still safe, presuming you’ve specified the version your using (I’ve made the mistake of not [...]

AADL Developer Blog

Its been radio silence here for awhile due to me switching jobs and getting up and running. I recently accepted the position of System Administrator at Ann Arbor District Library. It wasn’t an easy decision as I wasn’t actively looking for new employment, but sometimes you have to take opportunities when they come. I’m still [...]

Google Gears

Offline-mode has gotten some press since it was added to the Firefox roadmap. Some of the rails programmers have probably been watching Joyent Slingshot:

Joyent Slingshot allows developers to deploy Rails applications that work both online and offline (with synchronization), and with drag/drop into and out of the application as in a standard desktop application.

There is [...]

Solr in Libraries

Note: Many of the examples below only include screenshots. As these are development versions I don’t want to overwhelm them with traffic. If you pop in #code4lib you’ll probably be able to get a peek at them.

What is Solr?

If you were at Code4Lib 2007 then you were probably beat over the head with Solr. If [...]

Raptor and Triplr

For those that work with RDF or similar you may be interested in these:

Raptor

Raptor is a free software / Open Source C library that provides a set of parsers and serializers that generate Resource Description Framework (RDF) triples by parsing syntaxes or serialize the triples into a syntax. The supported parsing syntaxes are RDF/XML, N-Triples, [...]