Author: Ben Companjen

To do (excerpt): redesign, catalogue, PIM-KB, Semantic EPUB

Post author By Ben Companjen
Post date 2013-10-13

I’ve had some ideas for things and things to do at some point in the future, but I can’t do all of them at the same time and most ideas need more thought (and research). I’ll list them here, not ordered by priority in any case, hopefully to inspire more ideas and spark discussion.

Tags bibliographies, Bibliogs, catalogues, future, newspaper, PIM, privacy, security, style

Uncategorized

Bibliotheekje spelen, ehm, redden?

Post author By Ben Companjen
Post date 2013-10-11

Wie weet bezit (of beheer) ik binnenkort een klein deel van de 700.000 boeken die het Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen niet kwijt kan bij andere bibliotheken en in de “prullenbak” dreigen te belanden. Frank Huysmans bracht het idee van crowdstorage via Twitter: Nog 700.000 titels te redden http://t.co/rTWVfFsgAh. Crowd-storage-project van maken? 1000 mensen elk […]

Ideas Meta

Want to be LinkedOn this page?

Post author By Ben Companjen
Post date 2013-09-23

Yes, I’m on LinkedIn, and yes, in the past I have supplied even my Gmail password to LinkedIn to let it pull in all my contacts. I don’t believe I made LinkedIn send everyone an email. Back in the days, I had the option to see who else was on LinkedIn (by email address) and […]

Tags LinkedIn, old school

Ideas Technology

ArticLib: share and save paper in the office/library/…

Post author By Ben Companjen
Post date 2013-09-19

Let me describe ArticLib. It is a vision to share printed articles without much overhead and save paper and printer toner in the long term.

Familie

H.H. Timmer, Zuid-Afrika en Paul Kruger (deel 1)

Post author By Ben Companjen
Post date 2013-09-14

Mijn oma vroeg wel eens of ik in mijn zoektochten naar de geschiedenis van de familie (in het bijzonder onze gezamenlijke voorouders Timmer uit Haarlem en omgeving) ook iets was tegengekomen over banden tussen haar opa H.H. (Hendrikus Hermanus) Timmer en Paul Kruger. Op Eerste Kerstdag 2012 heb ik een vage herinnering van haar opgetekend: […]

Tags familie Timmer, Geschiedenis, Transvaal, Voorouders, Zuid-Afrika

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Ultimate visit

Post author By Ben Companjen
Post date 2013-08-07

In July, on my first day at the office, I was asked to present a paper at a conference workshop in Indianapolis. What a great way to start a job! It was my first time in the United States, so I had to see something other than the conference hotel. With a couple of extra […]

Tags Indianapolis, The Hague, travel report, ultimate frisbee

Linked (Open) Data

Bibliogs

Post author By Ben Companjen
Post date 2013-08-01

How about a(nother) community-built database of bibliographic data? One that is not limited to books or scientific journal articles, but does aim to identify the related people, organisations, perhaps even rooms in which conferences were held. That aims to connect the dots rather than re-mint URIs for everything that already has a URI, but recognises […]