More self-containedness, less code sharing
There’s this idea I’ve been encountering in different forms, that I really think is good. Here are some links on that. I think it was at the Javaland conference in early 2014, I believe in Stefan Tilkov’s talk, that I first heard of not building for reuse, but building for replacement. The idea is to […]
Why LOD needs applications, and libraries need APIs
This post is based on a talk I gave at SWIB15 on November 24 titled “LOD for applications: using the Lobid API”. I recently stumbled upon a poster by the American Library Association from 1925, which advertises library work as “the profession on which all other professions and occupations depend”: Source: http://imagesearchnew.library.illinois.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/alaposters/id/23/rec/2 I’m sure that […]