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Monthly Archives: January 2023
OLAC data quality investigator
On the flight back from Finland I found it challenging to use my laptop and pulled out my scratch pad to draw out some ideas I was having. One of those ideas was an idea for a record quality investigator. A tool which lets one investigator the presence or absence of features or sets of features in a record or set of records. The goal is to look for any patterns in the records which might be interesting and notable.
What follows are my written notes.
Trains at Valley River Center
It was an exceptionally busy day at the local mall, Valley River Center. There’s a special children’s museum there to watch my children have membership. However on this day there were so many people there that there was a line and we were to come back in a few minutes. We decided to take a walk. And what would you know that we found! Trains!
Resetting OLAC Documentation
OLAC Documentation is a set independently evolving documents with their own version numbers. What if these documents evolved together in sync? would it make the process more manageable? What if the documentation looked different? More like modern documentation?
I like the following document presentation layouts:
https://github.com/bep/docuapi
https://github.com/matcornic/hugo-theme-learn
https://github.com/alex-shpak/hugo-book
https://github.com/google/docsy
https://github.com/h-enk/doks
Next step is to take the most recent versions of OLAC documents and convert them to markdown. This converter catches all the XML tags while others don't https://codebeautify.org/html-to-markdown
On the list are:
http://www.language-archives.org/OLAC/repositories.html
http://www.language-archives.org/OLAC/metadata.html
http://www.language-archives.org/REC/bpr.html
http://www.language-archives.org/REC/olac-extensions.html
And each of the extensions.
These need to be cast one way for devs and implementers of technology while another way for managers and archivists.
OLAC Validator Custom Messages
OLAC Validator custom messages can be created following these steps:
https://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-xs.html#faq-4
This is the software it uses for its validator: https://xerces.apache.org/xerces-p/samples/validator.html Ideally this would also be containerized with the other parts.
One approach to get this containerized might be to use this script (which is older and linux oriented) https://github.com/dgricci/xmllint
Another option is to use: https://hub.docker.com/r/isaitb/xml-validator
If this service were implemented on a new server, with a web-interface we might expect to use a newer HTML front end.
here is what I found via gitub:
https://github.com/ebruchez/darius-xml.js
https://github.com/fulvio999/jxmlutil
Darius looks more promising but neither are "out of the box" tools.
LCSH without Identifiers….
How do we do Linked Data Identifiers for strings of previously unattested terms. For example:
Seri Language has an ID
Verb has an ID
But "Seri Language--Verb" has no ID.
Finally glued
After at least a year I finally got the caulking out and silicones them in place.
Fixing Brio
My parents got my brother and I Brio trains around 1984. Over the years some of those pieces broke and were repaired. Some of them got additional shades of pigment added. They survived through seven kids and now my two kids. Well almost survived.
Today I repaired three pieces by adding pegs. I made the pegs by drilling a 3/8” hole in a wooden ball I bought from a craft store. Then I glued in a dowel from the hardware store. Next I sanded the tip flat. Then I sanded the circumference of the ball to give clearance on the sides. Then I pre-drilled the track portion and dry-fit the pegs measuring the amount I needed both in the track and for appropriate connection to the next track piece. I then cut the dowel to proper size. Finally I glued the peg in with wood glue.
Filter order…
Today Katja wanted to vacuum her room for the first time. We had a small problem. Becky had disassembled the filter while washing it. Now we needed to reassemble it without her. To the encyclopedia of YouTube we go.
PPPM nonprofit management PhD
Some notes from discussion with Dyana mason.
