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LibraryCloud provides API access to about 17M items: The 13M items (books, etc.) in the Harvard Library collections, images in VIA, and archival records at an unusual level of granularity. It's been up and in service since Dec. 2014. There are probably some cool demos that could be done integrating other data sets with Library content.
It's also an example of a dataset that points to qualitative items that are special to Harvard, since we have by far the largest university library collection.
Thanks David! Can you provide the URL and a contact person?
D'oh.
http://library.harvard.edu/librarycloud/ is the overview.
Randy Stern at Library Technology Services is the manager of the project: randy_stern@harvard.edu
Paul Deschner of the Library innovation Lab has been deeply involved in LibraryCloud and developed the first version of it (now called "lilCloud" -- more experimental, more weird types of data in it). deschner@law.harvard.edu
Harvard Faculty Finder? https://www.faculty.harvard.edu/Scholarship_and_Research/Faculty_Scholarship/Harvard_Faculty_Finder
Griffin Weber weber@hms.harvard.edu
DINING & NUTRITION MODULE
Group: Dining Services
Contact 1: Crista Martin, Director for Marketing and Communications, crista_martin@harvard.edu, (617) 496-6705
Contact 1 (for feed Kim Ho, Associate Director, CSOL Applied Technologies, Related issues): kim_ho@harvard.edu, (617) 496-6717
Data source/Feed: CSV from dining (Menu.csv and Menu2.csv) Uploaded to a Dropbox account (per Kim via email on 11/25/14) IP addresses from dining: 128.103.161 128.103.95.54
Website: http://www.dining.harvard.edu/residential_dining/menus.html
The Faculty Finder -- a faculty registsry -- has an API: http://api.facultyfinder.harvard.edu/ It's a linked data repository, but there's a SPARQL endpoint and an XML search API
Possible Data Sets (from the Read Me of this project):
Q scores Course catalog Shuttle tracker Dining hall menus Demographics from the FAS Registrar Endowment Library search Harvard art museum collections Building plans for Allston Authentication DASH research repository
A nit: I'd suggest changing "Library Search" to "Library catalog" or "LibraryCloud" as the data resource . LibraryCloud is the best and fully open way of searching the metadata in the Library's catalog.
Good call. Also, I'll add the other data sets referenced here to the list.
Some more potentially interesting datasets we should look into:
If you find metadata on some good datasets, please fill out this form! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1KpVH2juCOnFI3bcKy5sEOI_uedyGDnwXfueNV3aYmzs/viewform
@hathix -- where is the link to the metadata collected from your above link? Thanks!
This thread is for discussion of which data sets should be included in launch