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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Thank you for visiting the FactMiners.org website. The research we are doing to preserve and highlight the 48-issue run of <em>Softalk</em> magazine is on-going and active. This site and our effort to build a community around our research is dormant, however. </p>
<p>You will find the full digital collection of <em>Softalk</em> magazine at the Internet Archive, <a href="https://archive.org/details/softalkapple?sort=date">here</a>. There is a link to the MAGAZINEgts ground-truth storage metadata file for the collection on the About page of the collection at the Archive. Links to our research publications and project updates can be found on our ResearchGate.net profiles <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jim_Salmons">here for Jim</a> and <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Timlynn_Babitsky">here for Timlynn</a>.</p>
<p>Our activity now consists of creating the <strong>MAGAZINEgts ground-truth storage</strong> format for historic serial publications AND its implementation through a reference model example for <em>Softalk</em>.</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:32:17 +0000Jim Salmons56 at http://www.factminers.orghttp://www.factminers.org/content/our-research-active-site-not#commentsSoftalk Apple Is First Collection at Internet Archive with FactMiners' MAGAZINE Ground Truth Storage Metadata
http://www.factminers.org/content/softalk-apple-first-collection-internet-archive-factminers-magazine-ground-truth-storage
<div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/news" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">News</a></li><li class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/datech2017" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">#DATeCH2017</a></li><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/conference-papers" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Conference Papers</a></li><li class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/internet-archive" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Internet Archive</a></li><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/ground-truth" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Ground Truth</a></li><li class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/magazine-research" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Magazine Research</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong>FactMiners</strong> and <strong>The Softalk Apple Project</strong> are excited to announce that The Softalk Apple Project's digital collection of the Apple edition of Softalk magazine is now included in both <a href="https://archive.org/details/computermagazines"><em>"The Computer Magazine Archives"</em></a> and <em>"Magazine Rack"</em> collections at the <strong>Internet Archive</strong>. Our projects also were granted full admin rights to the Softalk Apple collection at the Archive in support of our applied research.</p>
<p>And the first BIG NEWS made possible by our having full admin access is that The Softalk Apple Project collection is the <strong>FIRST</strong> (and so-far ONLY) <strong>digital magazine, newspaper, or serial publication at the Archive to provide XML-based FactMiners' MAGAZINE #GTS (Ground Truth Storage) metadata files</strong> for each issue of the magazine as well as a "master file" for the entire publication/collection!</p>
<p>"Ground Truth Storage" is a term that image-analysis and text-mining researchers use for metadata files that are human-curated and validated as (close to) 100% accurate as possible. The #GTS format that we developed at FactMiners is based on an 'ontological stack' of the #cidocCRM (the International Council of Museums' Conceptual Reference Model for Cultural Heritage), FRBRoo (the IFLA's Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) and PRESSoo (the IFLA model for serial publications). Rather than focus on the within-page ground truth of individual page layout and text recognition, the FactMiners' MAGAZINE metadata format incorporates a comprehensive, publication-wide metadata model that integrates the complex Document Strucure and Content Depiction models.</p>
<p>In an effort to keep our project collaborators and supporters informed, we made two short demo screencast video updates about our progress developing the Python-based ppg2leaf_ferret metadata discovery and validation tool:</p>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ei1YoSgNL6w" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><p>
with the second update showcasing our generalization of the ferret to handle bottom-margin page number spotting. The issue we quickly explore is the famous August 1981 issue of Byte magazine all about Smalltalk:</p>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mttUby8NRpw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><p>
To take a look at the initial iteration of the FactMiners MAGAZINE #GTS (Ground Truth Storage) format metadata files at the Internet Archive, see here:</p>
<p> <a href="https://archive.org/download/softalkapple/softalkapple_publication.xml">https://archive.org/download/softalkapple/softalkapple_publication.xml</a></p>
<p>for the <strong>publication level</strong> MAGAZINE #GTS file, and here:</p>
<p> <a href="https://archive.org/download/softalkv1n01sep1980/softalkv1n01sep1980_magazine.xml">https://archive.org/download/softalkv1n01sep1980/softalkv1n01sep1980_mag...</a></p>
<p>for an example of the <strong>issue level</strong> MAGAZINE #GTS metadata file.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that this initial publication of our MAGAZINE metadata files is very "thin" at the moment, with mostly empty placeholder tags that will be filled in with full models and associated datasets. The XML Schemas for the MAGAZINE format are published and available to all researchers via the FactMiners website. See the XML header of the above metadata files for the standard XML schema location reference to these files.</p>
<p>The individual issue level MAGAZINE #GTS metadata files include a "ppg2leaf_map" that guarantees the relationship between Softalk's print page numbers and their respective "leaf" images in the digital copies at the Archive. While our MAGAZINE files are admittedly lean at the moment, The Softalk Apple Project already has extensive data "in the can" -- being curated Advertisers Index, mastheads, Table of Contents, and lists of Companies, People, Products, etc. who made or were covered editorially in the magazine. We are currently writing the Python scripts to generate the XML metadata that will begin populating the publication level model and dataset metadata. Issue-specific subsets of our data will also be included in the issue level metadata files.</p>
<p>The publication of the these MAGAZINE #GTS files is the subject of FactMiners' first paper submitted to <a href="http://ddays.digitisation.eu/datech-2017/"><strong>#DATeCH2017</strong></a>, and the ppg2leaf mapping found in the issue level files is the subject of our second paper to this EuropeanaTech Digital Humanities research conference which is scheduled to take place in Germany in early June.</p>
<p>The FactMiners #GTS format is being evolved as a resource to support eResearch and machine learning at the Internet Archive. As always, comments and questions are welcome. Even better, we welcome volunteers who would like to become involved in our #CitizenScience and #CitizenHistory projects, FactMiners and The Softalk Apple Project. To express your interest feel free to contact us through this website or via social media channels.</p>
<p>For those interested in reading pre-review PDFs of our #DATeCH2017 submissions, they are available to those with ResearchGate.net access at <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305720742_Ground_Truth_Softalk_Magazine_Using_Aletheia_Web_Edition_to_do_FactMiners%27_Text-mining"><em>"Ground Truth & Softalk Magazine: Using Aletheia Web Edition to do FactMiners’ Text-mining"</em></a> and <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313046838_Print-Page_Number_to_Leaf_ID_Mapping_in_Support_of_eResearch_and_Machine-Learning_at_the_Internet_Archive"><em>"Print-Page Number to "Leaf" ID Mapping in Support of eResearch and Machine-Learning at the Internet Archive"</em></a>. Others interested in our applied research may request personal communication copies via the contact form on this website or through any of the social media channels in which we are active.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 06 Mar 2017 19:48:23 +0000Jim Salmons54 at http://www.factminers.orghttp://www.factminers.org/content/softalk-apple-first-collection-internet-archive-factminers-magazine-ground-truth-storage#commentsFactMiners & PRImA Partner on Knight News Challenge Entry
http://www.factminers.org/content/factminers-prima-partner-knight-news-challenge-entry
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="http://www.factminers.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/textsoup2smartdata_vizmeme.png?itok=0bgE__FL"><a href="http://www.factminers.org/sites/default/files/images/textsoup2smartdata_vizmeme.png"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-large" src="http://www.factminers.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/textsoup2smartdata_vizmeme.png?itok=0bgE__FL" width="480" height="320" alt="" /></a></figure></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/news" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">News</a></li><li class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/partnerships" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Partnerships</a></li><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/internet-archive" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Internet Archive</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong>FactMiners</strong> is immensely pleased to announce our collaborative entry in the current "Data Edition" of the <strong>Knight News Challenge</strong>. With encouragement of our the <strong>Internet Archive</strong>, we have proposed an innovative idea and project implementation to partner with PRImA, the Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Research Center to <em><a href="https://goo.gl/99Vn5M">"Turn Text Soup into Smart Data in Newspaper & Magazine Archives"</a></em>.</p>
<p>The Knight News Challenge is unique in that it encourages entries from individuals as well as organizations, and international partnerships are no problem. So this potential source of funding for our applied research at the Internet Archive is most appreciated. FactMiners (so far) consists of two post-cancer #PayItForward Citizen Scientists in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA, and our two fellow Kindred Spirits on this project -- <a href="http://www.primaresearch.org/people/aa">Apostolos Antonacopoulos</a> and <a href="http://www.primaresearch.org/people/cclausner">Christian Clausner</a> -- are world-class research scientists at PRImA at the University of Salford, Manchester, UK.</p>
<p>We hope you have a few minutes to visit our entry to learn more about our project. We've prepared four "silent Ignite Talk" video slideshows to showcase our project. Your comments, questions, and especially, your "applause" (AKA a "like") are most welcome and appreciated.</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 17 Oct 2015 21:11:43 +0000Jim Salmons53 at http://www.factminers.orghttp://www.factminers.org/content/factminers-prima-partner-knight-news-challenge-entry#commentsFactMiners & Softalk Apple Project to Host Global Collaboration Day Event!
http://www.factminers.org/content/factminers-softalk-apple-project-host-global-collaboration-day-event
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="http://www.factminers.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/globalcollaborationday_promo1.jpg?itok=FaLSmm_y"><a href="http://www.factminers.org/sites/default/files/images/globalcollaborationday_promo1.jpg"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-large" src="http://www.factminers.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/globalcollaborationday_promo1.jpg?itok=FaLSmm_y" width="480" height="328" alt="" /></a></figure></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/crowdsourcing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Crowdsourcing</a></li><li class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/event-announcement" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Event Announcement</a></li><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/news" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">News</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><em>Psssst....</em> this is just a quick heads-up ahead of the official announcement forthcoming...</p>
<p><strong>FactMiners</strong> & <strong>The Softalk Apple Project</strong> are pleased to announce that we will host a <strong><a href="http://www.globalcollaborationday.org/">Global Collaboration Day Event</a></strong> "all day" on September 17th.! :-)</p>
<p>Details of our event will be forthcoming and announced here as an update to this announcement. Time is short, so we're in crunch mode to be ready for this fun event.</p>
<p>On September 17th, students, teachers, and organizations – including grassroots Citizen Science and Citizen History projects like ours – will celebrate <strong>global collaboration</strong>! On this day, experienced global educators and professionals will host connective projects and events and invite public participation. <strong>The primary goals of this whole day event are to demonstrate the power of global connectivity in classrooms, schools, institutions of informal learning and universities around the world, and to introduce others to the tools, resources and projects that are available to educators today.</strong> </p>
<p>At <strong>FactMiners</strong> and <strong>The Softalk Apple Project</strong>, we believe in the power of connected learners... Let's show others what globally connected learning looks like on September 17th! Keep an ear out for our and other Global Collaboration Day events. And if you are a connected learner organization of any stripe, we encourage you to join in and host a virtual event. Everyone everywhere learning together... start with a day, make it a habit. </p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 10 Sep 2015 19:42:19 +0000Jim Salmons52 at http://www.factminers.orghttp://www.factminers.org/content/factminers-softalk-apple-project-host-global-collaboration-day-event#commentsPRImA's Aletheia - Ground Truth & Softalk Magazine
http://www.factminers.org/content/primas-aletheia-ground-truth-softalk-magazine
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><a href="http://www.factminers.org/sites/default/files/images/Softalk_V1n01p001_semi-gnd_truth.png"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-large" src="http://www.factminers.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/Softalk_V1n01p001_semi-gnd_truth.png?itok=JuiYNr-J" width="480" height="433" alt="" /></a></figure></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Although most folks are now happy with full access to the <a href="https://archive.org/details/softalkapple">complete run of the Apple edition of Softalk magazine</a> now that Timlynn and I have funded its "ingestion" into the Internet Archive, the <strong>Softalk Apple Project</strong> is far from over. In fact, getting the collection into the Archive was just step one -- the <em>Citizen History</em> aspect of our projects. </p>
<p>We're now moving forward on strategic collaborations with world-class researchers and research centers to turn the Softalk Apple Project digital collection into a unique and valuable reference resource for broad applications in the <strong>Digital Humanities</strong> and <strong>Cognitive Computing</strong> domains.</p>
<p>One particularly exciting collaboration is shaping up with the VERY "deep weeds" researchers at the <a href="http://www.primaresearch.org/"><strong>PRImA Research Center</strong></a> at the <strong>University of Salford</strong> in Manchester England. <strong>PRImA</strong> is <em>"Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis"</em> and this is the premiere research center working on the deepest technical challenges of doing document structure and layout recognition as well as OCR (text recognition) of print and hand-written documents.</p>
<h2>PRImA's Aletheia - Our "Get-going" Fact-mining Tool</h2>
<p>To date, the Center's research has focused (and made AMAZING progress) addressing within-page layout recognition via fine-grained page segmenting techniques. In order to test recognition algorithms, PRImA has created a <a href="<a href="http://www.primaresearch.org/tools/Aletheia">">"ground truth" tool called <strong>Aletheia</strong></a>. For the hard-core OCR crowd, "ground truth" is page segmentation meticulously done by, and validated to be "correct" as a perfect solution by, a human. The "ground-truth edition" of a page is used as an "answer key" to measure the accuracy of, and the differences between, the results of layout and text recognition algorithms.</p>
<p>The great thing is that FactMiners can use Aletheia as a "proof of concept" tool to begin creating the FactMiners' Fact Cloud "edition" of the Softalk Apple collection! A FactMiners' Fact Cloud is just our name for a "_machine-readable_ copy" of each issue of Softalk... that is, all the "facts mined" and stored in a graph database such that ALL the information that a human can gain by reading the magazine will also be accessible as #SmartData (that is, a graph database with a metamodel subgraph explaining the data's structure and processes for access and use) via the Fact Cloud.</p>
<h2>Toward Automatic Recognition of Magazine Whole-Issue Structure</h2>
<p>The picture I have included with this post is an example of detailed page-segmentation of the key "structure revealing" page of Softalk's first issue (September 1980). Page 1 is <strong>"hint rich"</strong> with information revealing the "meta-structure" (magazine's have a common but not required structure) of this issue of the magazine. In this case, page one has the <strong>Table of Contents</strong>, the <strong>Advertiser's Index</strong> (a 'secondary' type of TOC), the <strong>masthead</strong>, and <strong>Previews</strong> of next month's content. </p>
<p>Aletheia provides flexible region (page segment) creation, including the all-important <strong>page-segment-respecting OCR feature</strong>. Bulk OCR simply produces an unstructured "text soup" in an unseen layer of, for example, an image-based PDF file. While full-text searches can be done on such bulk OCR data, the actual and all-important structure of the magazine is nowhere to be found. This is a central challenge of FactMiners' fact-mining -- typed-structure-respecting text recognition... our Holy Grail of tool requirement.</p>
<p>The only way to create a FactMiners' Fact Cloud will be through a page-segment modeling and respecting tool... and to date, nothing I have seen comes close to filling this requirement the way Aletheia does.</p>
<h2>FactMiners' "Visual Language of Magazine Design" Dataset</h2>
<p>One of the #CognitiveComputing agenda items we're working on at FactMiners is a <strong>whole-issue commercial magazine layout recognition</strong>. This will be a specialized #SmartProgram that, given a set of images of the pages of a magazine, finds the page or pages that contain the "telltale specification" of the magazine -- that is, that finds and processes the table of contents, list of advertisers, and any other page-segments that reveal the whole-issue structure of the magazine. Finding and interpreting whole-issue magazine structure is a recognition process that spans individual pages and will be done in an iterative fashion over the collection of all page-images in an issue.</p>
<div class="image-left"><img src="/sites/default/files/images/460px-A_nonomino_sudoku.svg.png" width="180" height="180" alt="460px-A_nonomino_sudoku.svg.png" /></div>
<p>The whole-issue structure-recognizing challenge will require a "Sudoku-like" iterative solution. That is, by finding the "key page(s)" -- primarily the table of contents and list of advertisers -- our recognition algorithm or neural net will use a process of elimination to find and identify as many page segments as possible. While doing this at the page level, the #SmartProgram will be building up a whole-issue document structure as its iterative recognition reveals the front-of-book, feature-well, and back-of-book structure of most commercial magazines. </p>
<div class="image-right"><a href="http://www.primaresearch.org/datasets/Layout_Analysis""><img src="/sites/default/files/images/PRImA_Layout_Analysis.png" width="300" height="300" alt="PRImA_Layout_Analysis.png" /></a>
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<p>To this end, we'll be creating a computer-vision reference dataset of the "visual language" of magazine layout design. As we create the FactMiners' Fact Cloud, an intermediary step will be to create PAGE-format files (PRImA's XML spec similar to ALTO) that include a "whole page layout" description at the page level of the XML-based PAGE document structure hierarchy. This means that the Softalk Apple collection will be the first 9,300+ images of a dataset that can be used to teach deep learning algorithms and neural nets, etc. to recognize commercial magazine whole-issue structure. Our "semi-ground-truth" dataset -- as we'll only go down to typed page segments, and not down to baseline, word, and glyph boundaries, etc. -- will be a natural complement to the 880+ pages in the <a href="http://www.primaresearch.org/datasets/Layout_Analysis">PRImA Magazine Layout Dataset</a> seen here.</p>
<p>I am VERY excited to learn about the PRImA Research Center, its wonderful people, and the amazing tools they have created. I look forward to the progress that can be made through this evolving collaboration. </p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 07 Jul 2015 22:51:27 +0000Jim Salmons50 at http://www.factminers.orghttp://www.factminers.org/content/primas-aletheia-ground-truth-softalk-magazine#commentsTranskribus & Crowdsourcing
http://www.factminers.org/content/transkribus-crowdsourcing
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="http://www.factminers.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/transkribus_embed_preview.png?itok=Cr_krfLc"><a href="http://www.factminers.org/sites/default/files/images/transkribus_embed_preview.png"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-large" src="http://www.factminers.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/transkribus_embed_preview.png?itok=Cr_krfLc" width="336" height="480" alt="" /></a></figure></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/crowdsourcing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Crowdsourcing</a></li><li class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/socialmachines" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">#SocialMachines</a></li><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/digital-humanities" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Digital Humanities</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>I have contributed a 6-part series of short articles to a new <a href="https://medium.com/factminers-musings">FactMiners' Musings publication on Medium</a> about my discovery and exploration of the wonderful <strong>Transkribus</strong> applied researchers at the <strong>University of Innsbruck</strong> and their amazing Big Vision for the <em>TRP</em>, the <strong>Transkribus Recognition Platform</strong>. </p>
<p>In addition to a basic introduction to these folks and their research, in the last piece in the series I frame their crowdsourcing transcription platform that supports historical handwritten document recognition (the hardest kind of OCR) as a <em>Social Machine</em>. <a href="http://www.sociam.org/">Social Machines</a> can be envisioned as part of an <em>Entrepreneurial Community Ecosystem</em> and should be explored as among the incubators for what "human work" will look like in the 21st Century.</p>
<!--break--></div></div></div>Wed, 01 Jul 2015 16:02:10 +0000Jim Salmons51 at http://www.factminers.orghttp://www.factminers.org/content/transkribus-crowdsourcing#commentsMy 1st Post to the #cidocCRM SIG Mailing List
http://www.factminers.org/content/my-1st-post-cidoccrm-sig-mailing-list
<div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/personal-learning-networks" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Personal Learning Networks</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/plnet" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">#PLNet</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/cidoccrm" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">#cidocCRM</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/tei" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">#TEI</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><blockquote><p>Today I felt bold or desperate enough -- actually some of both -- to prod a bit for a reply to a request for advice from a couple of my mentors in my <strong>#cidocCRM/#TEI Personal Learning Network</strong>. If you are successful developing a really good <strong>#PLNet</strong> (might as well mint a hashtag for on-going use), your <em>loose group</em> of <strong>mentors</strong> will, by definition, be <strong>EXTREMELY busy beyond your imagining</strong>, and <strong>the best won't suffer fools lightly</strong>. So evolving your #PLNet is always a <em>balancing act</em>. And a big part of that balancing has to do with <em>your patience</em> and the reasonableness of your <em>expectations for what constitutes a good result or reply</em>.</p>
<p>My pressing-inquiry to my #PLNet members revolved around what might be announced or open for discussion based on the preliminary agenda published ahead of the upcoming <a href="http://www.cidoc-crm.org/special_interest_meetings.html#AGENTA-20150519">CIDOC CRM SIG meeting</a>. My absolutely over-tasked #PLNet member found a moment to thoughtfully recommended that I join the CRM SIG mailing list (despite not being a SIG member), and make my interests and recommendations known prior to next week's meeting in Germany. He assured me that while he didn't make these SIG decisions, that my ideas and interest to get involved in the SIG would likely be well-received.</p>
<p>So with that encouragement, I joined the <a href="http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig">CIDOC CRM SIG mailing list</a> and 'penned' one of <strong>my signature TL;DR unsolicited letters of introduction</strong>. I honestly don't intend them to be too long nor too deep. It is just that I feel once you step up on the soapbox and unload, the last thing you want to do is sit down and start running through all the things you wished you had said while you were up there. Right? With this context in mind, below the bar is my first post to the CIDOC CRM SIG Mailing List. (A subgoal, as always, is casting the net for connections to Kindred Spirits who are possible collaborators and/or mentors.)</p>
<p>If you get to the end of this note to the mailing list, I've provided a link to a moldy oldie from my Sohodojo days that provides additional insights about how to think about and use <strong>Personal Learning Networks</strong> to become whatever Empowered Individual you are intending to be. Oh, and there's an <strong>infographic</strong> to boot! :D
</p></blockquote>
<hr /><p>Hello CIDOC CRM SIG Members,<br /><br />
My name is Jim Salmons and my inter-related Citizen Science/History projects are @FactMiners (<a href="http://www.FactMiners.org">www.FactMiners.org</a>) and @SoftalkApple (<a href="http://www.SoftalkApple.com">www.SoftalkApple.com</a>).<br /><br />
We are working on two inter-related applied research initiatives; #cidocCRMgraph and #cidocCRMdev, as briefly introduced here: <a href="http://goo.gl/XZKkCE">http://goo.gl/XZKkCE</a>. For links to related #cidocCRM posts expressing our interests/insights, please see: <a href="http://goo.gl/dpbhPs">http://goo.gl/dpbhPs</a>.</p>
<h3>BACKGROUND INFO</h3>
<p>For our most complete “manifesto” of applied research interests, please see: <a href="https://goo.gl/3Vb0lO">https://goo.gl/3Vb0lO</a> contributed and accepted into the CODE|WORDS series, and this GraphGist Edition of my #MCN2014 presentation: <a href="http://goo.gl/gS2FJk">http://goo.gl/gS2FJk</a> (especially the 2nd half of the embedded video which introduces, but does not dive too deeply into, our FactMiners #cidocCRM focus). And for some context and link to an unfolding #cidocCRM-related conversation at Schema.org in which I am trying to inject a metamodel-driven design POV, please see: <a href="http://goo.gl/x1DSAB">http://goo.gl/x1DSAB</a>. (Also, I am fortunate to have, and personally thank, the members of my #cidocCRM/#TEI Personal Learning Network who are helping me to fast-track my knowledge about the #cidocCRM and #TEI: <a href="https://goo.gl/skvhaj">https://goo.gl/skvhaj</a>.)</p>
<h3>CRM SIG MTG – NEW WEBSITE ITEM INTEREST & RECOMMENDATION FOR TEI P5 FORMAT FOR DEFINITION DOCUMENT</h3>
<p>As to the upcoming CRM SIG meeting agenda item for next Friday morning to discuss a new cidoc-crm.org website, please note that @FactMiners has a long-standing public “hand raised” to either lead or contribute to this much-needed community project. If this is an open issue and the project’s nature and goals are to be determined through next Friday’s discussion, I would recommend that the new website be built HAND-IN-HAND with adopting TEI P5 as the semantic “format of record” for the CIDOC CRM Definition document. (MS-Word and PDF just won’t cut it moving forward when both humans and our software agents need equal access to this foundation document.)</p>
<p>While there are those who prefer/need an RDF encoding, there will be a growing group of folks like @FactMiners who will be best served by a human- and machine-readable edition of the Definition document “as is” without a complicated graph transformation applied (that can only further obfuscate existing graph-interpretation issues of the current state of the model). A TEI P5 encoding of the Definition document would not just be useful in its own right, but it could figure into an efficient workflow for the SIG in the future whereby the official public-facing website would be generated from (and updated by) releases of the official #TEI Definition document.</p>
<p>If the SIG would prefer not to select a particular lead or other sanctioned “official project” of the SIG, I would ask that you simply consider taking the existing cidoc-crm.org website and put it into a public GitHub repository so volunteer community members could fork it in response to a “CIDOC-CRM.org Website Make-over Challenge” with friendly competition encouraged by general public as well as a category for student/class projects.<br />
There are a number of other active issues/ideas I would like to contribute to the current SIG conversations that will surely take place next week, but I don’t want to dilute my message about @FactMiners interest in contributing to the new website.</p>
<h3>RECOMMENDATION FOR PREFERRED SOCIAL MEDIA HASHTAG - #cidocCRM</h3>
<p>However, I will slip this recommendation into this self-introduction note to suggest that the SIG consider officially endorsing/recommending the use of #cidocCRM as the preferred hashtag for CIDOC CRM social media communication. My experience is that anything with any variation of tag that has a plain CRM or hyphenated #CIDOC-CRM etc., will attract the “900-pound gorilla” of Customer Relationship Management folks that subvert conversations or spike your followers with inappropriate bots or well-meaning lurkers. My choice of #cidocCRM is that the CIDOC aspect should not be the “shouty” part and that it serves as the “category discriminator” that will help keep our interests separate from “those other” CRM folks.</p>
<h3>POSSIBLE SIG MEMBERSHIP?</h3>
<p>Finally, given my intense interest in the #cidocCRM and not knowing how ICOM and/or CIDOC SIGs work, I am unsure whether I would be a prospective group member in that I am an unaffiliated, independent Citizen Scientist and on a limited fixed “retirement” budget.</p>
<p>Thank you for your interest and reading this notably long initial letter of introduction.</p>
<p> Happy-Healthy Vibes,<br />
-: Jim :-</p>
<p> Jim Salmons<br />
Twitter: @Jim_Salmons<br /><a href="http://www.FactMiners.org">www.FactMiners.org</a><br /><a href="http://www.SoftalkApple.com">www.SoftalkApple.com</a></p>
<hr /><blockquote><p>If you would like to know more about <em>Personal Learning Networks</em>, I invite you to read a moldy oldie from my and Timlynn's <strong>Sohodojo</strong> adventure. <strong>Personal Learning Network</strong> or <strong>#PLNet</strong> was not what we called these networks fifteen years ago. In <em><a href="http://goo.gl/bLg6NE">"The A-Team and The Sandbox"</a></em> your #PLNet is your A-Team. The <em>"sandbox"</em> is what Timlynn and I have with our Citizen Science and Citizen History projects, <a href="http://www.FactMiners.org">www.FactMiners.org</a> and <a href="http://www.SoftalkApple.com">www.SoftalkApple.com</a>. In inforgraphic format, our post-cancer Portfolio Life looks like this:</p></blockquote>
<div class="image-solo"><img src="/sites/default/files/images/FactMiners_SoftalkApple_DIYpw_as_Play2Learn_SocialMachine.png" width="1000" height="948" alt="FactMiners_SoftalkApple_DIYpw_as_Play2Learn_SocialMachine.png" /></div>
</div></div></div>Wed, 13 May 2015 20:52:03 +0000Jim Salmons49 at http://www.factminers.orghttp://www.factminers.org/content/my-1st-post-cidoccrm-sig-mailing-list#comments#cidocCRMdev #FlyOnWall Comments Contributed at Schema.org
http://www.factminers.org/content/cidoccrmdev-flyonwall-comments-contributed-schemaorg
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><a href="http://www.factminers.org/sites/default/files/images/cidoc-crm-emb-sorta.png"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-large" src="http://www.factminers.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/cidoc-crm-emb-sorta.png?itok=4CBt3r2W" width="480" height="378" alt="" /></a></figure></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/cidoccrmdev" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">#cidocCRMdev</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/metamodeling" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Metamodeling</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/cidoccrm" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">#cidocCRM</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/linked-open-data" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Linked Open Data</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><blockquote><p><strong>Context</strong>: This is the opening comment I made to a conversation at the GitHub repository for Schema.org where folks are considering a proposal or recommendation to <a href="https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/445"><em>"Add Exhibition as a subtype of Event".</em></a> </p>
<p>My intent in contributing to this on-going conversation was to be a kind of <strong>#FlyOnWall</strong> reminder that the <strong>#cidocCRM</strong> -- the ISO standard Conceptual Reference Model for Museums and other cultural heritage organizations -- can be used as a process-oriented metamodel and not just as a descriptive ontology. This following <a href="https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/445#issuecomment-97490169">opening statement can be found here</a>. BTW, this comment can be read as a kind of <em>"There's a pony in there somewhere..."</em> piece to further reinforce the thesis of my <a href="https://goo.gl/3Vb0lO">"Witmore's Text..." Medium.com article</a>.</p></blockquote>
<hr /><p>Re @BarryNorton and @MiaLondon et al -- Whatever you do, Dan, <em>PLEASE</em> do it so as to be a <strong>#cidocCRM-compatible form</strong>. </p>
<p>Ontologists tend toward descriptive use of the #cidocCRM as a <strong>metaDATA</strong> standard when it is intended to also be a <strong>metaMODEL</strong> supporting its use to prescribe <em>elementary building blocks</em> (<strong>model elements</strong>, like parts in a LEGO blocks set) of software architectures. Until there is wider recognition of the SIGNIFICANT leverage that <strong>metamodel-driven software design</strong> can do for the Digital Humanities, the <em>#cidocCRM will be as woefully under-utilized as it is currently under-appreciated.</em> (Yes, as much great work is being done with the #cidocCRM, there is SO MUCH as-yet untapped potential in leveraging its metamodel nature.)</p>
<div class="image-left"><img src="/sites/default/files/images/cidocCRM_classes_cartoon.png" width="500" alt="cidocCRM_classes_cartoon.png" /></div>
<p><em>Why do I believe this?</em> I was a lead in a Smalltalk-based <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunkworks_project">skunkworks</a></strong> in IBM's Object Technology Practice doing <em>"executable business model"</em> frameworks in the 1990s behind closed doors of corporate consulting. Our work was inspired by <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/mirror-worlds-9780195079067?cc=us&lang=en&">David Gelernter's <em>"Mirror Worlds"</em></a> book, and was based on "self-descriptive" Smalltalk images that were compliant to an <em>actor/role metamodel</em> that objectified Process (an OOP heresy at the time).</p>
<p>Following my horrific cancer battle and a chance to stick my finger in the eye of the Reaper and come back for some Bonus Rounds, I find myself as a <strong>Wolf Child</strong> in the <strong>Wonderland of Digital Humanities' "Golden Moment."</strong> </p>
<p>When we were trying to do EBMs (executable business models) at IBM, we trolled the various IBM Global Services consulting practices for viable <strong>IRM</strong>s -- each practice was required to create an <em>Industry Reference Model</em>, AKA a <strong>metamodel</strong>. These IRMs ran the gamut from worthless tripe to "Wow!? Pretty good!" </p>
<p>I most enjoyed "pair programming" with my first ontologist, we called him <em>"Doug the Librarian"</em> because he "just modeled" and didn't code. Basically, what we were looking for in partners to do metamodel-driven software development were three things:</p>
<ul><li><strong>Subject Matter Experts</strong> (especially if they were verbal, thinkers, and open to being 'pushed' to clarity)
</li>
<li><strong>Explicit Models</strong> -- Black box expertise (wetware only) can't be executable without first being rendered in some explicit form of communication (usually words and images)
</li>
<li><strong>Source 'Instances' of these Explicit Models</strong> -- The best way to surface hidden assumptions and contradictions is to look at the delta of models that purport to be instances of the same metamodel
</li>
</ul><p><strong>THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES DOMAIN HAS EVERYTHING NEEDED TO DO METAMODEL-DRIVEN SOFTWARE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE EXTREME!</strong> :D </p>
<p>And the <strong>#cidocCRM</strong> is the <em>BEST opportunity</em> I've seen to date to move in this direction.</p>
<p>Along these lines, I am working on <strong>#cidocCRM microservice workflows</strong> based on a <strong>'self-descriptive' metamodel subgraph design pattern</strong> for <em>LAM-based social games</em> (front-end clients) and <em>#cidocCRM-compliant collections management and scholarly editing</em> back-end. </p>
<div class="image-solo"><img src="/sites/default/files/images/cidoc-crm-emb-sorta.png" width="835" height="657" alt="cidoc-crm-emb-sorta.png" /></div>
<p>(BTW, a first step in this regard is to more rigorously express the #cidocCRM in pure-graph form to support vendor- and tech-neutral self-descriptive datastores.)</p>
<p>If anybody is interested in these ideas, please see: <a href="http://goo.gl/dpbhPs">http://goo.gl/dpbhPs</a> and <a href="http://goo.gl/gS2FJk">http://goo.gl/gS2FJk</a>, etc. at @FactMiners (<a href="http://www.FactMiners.org">www.FactMiners.org</a>). This recent Medium.com article is the closest thing to a 'manifesto' on my applied research agenda: <a href="http://goo.gl/3Vb0lO">http://goo.gl/3Vb0lO</a>.</p>
<p>In closing, I am an unaffiliated independent Citizen Scientist/Historian working from an Outsider POV. Inquiries to clarify ideas as well as explorations of opportunities to collaborate are most welcome @Jim_Salmons, @FactMiners, and @SoftalkApple</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 12 May 2015 18:15:31 +0000Jim Salmons48 at http://www.factminers.orghttp://www.factminers.org/content/cidoccrmdev-flyonwall-comments-contributed-schemaorg#commentsFactMiners' Fact Cloud and Witmore's Text as Massively Addressable Object
http://www.factminers.org/content/factminers-fact-cloud-and-witmores-text-massively-addressable-object
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even"><a href="http://www.factminers.org/sites/default/files/images/factminers_medium_article.jpg"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-large" src="http://www.factminers.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/factminers_medium_article.jpg?itok=4qkK9L85" width="409" height="458" alt="" /></a></figure></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/modeling" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Modeling</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/metamodeling" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Metamodeling</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/digital-humanities" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Digital Humanities</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>I've just published a long-read, Deep Weedsy piece on Medium.com entitled: <em><a href="https://medium.com/@Jim_Salmons/factminers-fact-cloud-witmore-s-text-as-massively-addressable-object-13c7be3dbd37">"FactMiners' Fact Cloud and Witmore's Text as Massively Addressable Object"</a></em>. I welcome your reading and especially comments and questions.</p>
<p>My purpose in writing this article is two-fold:</p>
<ul><li>
<p>As a backgrounder/profile -- a 'manifesto' of sorts -- that I hope Robert Miller of the Internet Archive will have a chance to read before we meet next week at #DPLAfest. </p>
<p>As part of my second post-cancer Bonus Round, my pipedream is to secure the interest and find external funding for a <em>research fellowship to pursue our FactMiners and Softalk Apple Project applied research agenda from a position inside, and with collaborative support, of the <strong>Internet Archive</strong></em> to, in effect, join us in <em>exploring the deeper levels of "massive addressability" of the Archive's digital collections</em>, and</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>As a <em>pubic letter of self-introduction</em> to <strong>Michael Witmore</strong>, <strong>Jonathan Hope</strong> and the <em>Computational Literary Linguistics</em> community to explore <strong>"Rainman/Sherlock" collaborations</strong> as described in this newly published article and its <a href="http://www.factminers.org/content/inside-factminers-brain-rainman-meet-sherlock">related, earlier piece here</a>.</p>
</li>
</ul><p>I invite you to read the full article on your phone or tablet in the Medium app, or <a href="https://medium.com/@Jim_Salmons/factminers-fact-cloud-witmore-s-text-as-massively-addressable-object-13c7be3dbd37">on-line in your browser</a>.</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 09 Apr 2015 16:53:56 +0000Jim Salmons47 at http://www.factminers.orghttp://www.factminers.org/content/factminers-fact-cloud-and-witmores-text-massively-addressable-object#commentsFactMiners Partners with Internet Archive to Accelerate Softalk Apple Project Digitization and R&D
http://www.factminers.org/content/factminers-partners-internet-archive-accelerate-softalk-apple-project-digitization-and-rd
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="http://www.factminers.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/internetarchive_logo.png?itok=B0KRDd4J"><a href="http://www.factminers.org/sites/default/files/images/internetarchive_logo.png"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-large" src="http://www.factminers.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/internetarchive_logo.png?itok=B0KRDd4J" width="280" height="306" alt="" /></a></figure></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/news" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">News</a></li><li class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/partnerships" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Partnerships</a></li><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/scanning" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Scanning</a></li><li class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/research" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Research</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong>FactMiners.org</strong> and <strong>The Softalk Apple Project</strong> are very pleased to announce our partnership with the <strong><a href="http://www.archive.org">Internet Archive</a></strong> that will dramatically accelerate the digitization, preservation, and public access to an <strong>archival-quality digital collection of the full 48-issue run of the Apple edition of Softalk magazine</strong>. By dramatically collapsing the pre-research activity of creating the core/source digital archive at The Softalk Apple Project, we will be able to shift considerable resources and move up the schedule to concentrate on the applied R&D initiatives of FactMiners.org's museum informatics mission.</p>
<p>While The Softalk Apple Project is partnering with the Internet Archive as a <strong>Contributing Library</strong>, the <strong>Digitizing Sponsors</strong> – meaning the "financial partner" paying for the IA scanning center fees – are project founders, Jim Salmons and Timlynn Babitsky.</p>
<div class="image-left"><img src="/sites/default/files/images/jim_timlynn.JPG" width="400" alt="jim_timlynn.JPG" /></div>
<p>"Jim and I are funding this scanning project as one of our 'Pay It Forward' actions in celebration of our 25th wedding anniversary this Valentine's Day, and as a way to kick-off the second year of our post-cancer Bonus Rounds." said Timlynn Babitsky, co-founder and Head Archivist of The Softalk Apple Project, "We're going to turn this project into a super-'serious-fun' experience by taking the magazines to the Midwest Regional Scanning Center to document and participate in the actual scanning process. And we'll be doing this as a stop along our way to <a href="http://dp.la/info/get-involved/dplafest/april-2015/">DPLAFest</a>, the conclave of folks coming together to celebrate and envision the future of the <strong>Digital Public Library of America</strong>."</p>
<p>"The acceleration and quality improvements that will result from this partnership with the Internet Archive are certainly significant." said Jim Salmons, co-founder of both projects and tech lead of FactMiners.org, "However, the thing that excites me most is how this partnership clears the way for us to dig into the innovative applied museum informatics research and development agenda we are pursuing at FactMiners. I look forward to detailing our increased R&D activity in the weeks ahead. In the meantime, I know that Timlynn and I are going to have an incredibly fun time going to the Internet Archive Scanning Center to meet Jeff Sharpe and his staff, then on to DPLAFest. Considering what Timlynn and I have been through in these last few years, I am just so happy to even have a 25th wedding anniversary much less have a chance to be working with Timlynn on such exciting Citizen Science and History projects."</p>
<p>For Citizen Science/History projects with a similar need, we encourage you to visit the <a href="http://archive.org/scanning/v2">Internet Archive Scanning Services page</a>, then contact <strong>Robert Miller</strong>, <strong>Global Director of Books</strong> and prepare to have a REALLY good technical and distribution partner that will help you achieve your wildest project dreams and then reach for more.</p>
<p>Happy-Healthy Vibes to All, and Happy-Healthy 25th Anniversary to Us (Jim & Timlynn) :D :D</p>
<p>P.S. We promise to "crank it up to 11" for the second year of our Bonus Round! Look out Reaper, not done yet!!!<br />
J&T</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 14 Feb 2015 18:32:55 +0000Jim Salmons46 at http://www.factminers.orghttp://www.factminers.org/content/factminers-partners-internet-archive-accelerate-softalk-apple-project-digitization-and-rd#comments
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