wsb-catalog
Overview
A project to make a web-hosted catalog of my William S. Burroughs collection using the latest and greatest shiny object tech, at least that which I can wrap my head around. A sandbox for figuring out how to build Web catalog resources, if you will. Ultimately this might lead to a framework for the easy creation of digital humanities linked data resources using Github as a platform. We shall see.
Current status
A simple one-page catalog rendered from linked-data-ish data managed in a CSV file is up and running at https://www.bradleypallen.org/wsb-catalog/. Basically, we have a Python module that massages the CSV data into a Markdown table configured to be served up using Github Pages in a minimalist fashion. I kinda like it.
Roadmap
Early days here. Things will be in flux.
System
- Add individual pages for each catalog item incorporating the larger images and linked data embedded in JSON-LD format.
- Generate QR codes with links to the page URLs, print them as stickers and place them on the items-in-hand.
Data
- Mine the descriptions for improved dc:creator attributions.
- Figure out how to represent the relations implied by an association copy.
- Determine how to link dc:creator, dc:publisher into DBPedia.
- Investigate defining formal value spaces for dc:bibliographicCitation based on Schottlaender, Shoaf and M&M schemes.
License
MIT.