Tech Review: Tuesday, August 9, 2011

NARA takes crowdsourcing approach to tagging historic documents

• to improve searches of historical documents
• asking public to add tags to documents in online database
• David Ferriero
• NARA archivist
• Annouced tagging program in a blog entry The Wisdom of the Crowd
• OPA (Online Public Access)
• related stories from GCN
• NARA pus historic documents online with the help of Wikipidia volunteers
• National Archives reveals it social media hits and misses
• expect crowdsourced tagging to 
• "enhance the quality of the content"
• "make it easier for people to search the documents"
• users register with NARA
• tags must be approved
• planning to hold group tag events
• Dominic McDevitt-Parks
• NARA's Wikipedian in residence 
• Other links found 
• Crowdsourcing saves the Day

magic.h Man Page

http://swoolley.org/man.cgi/3/libmagic

This can also be found using:

$ man 3 libmagic

or

$ man libmagic

Notice the '3' in front of the search for indicates which section to search in.

Example of Adding a User using iadmin

https://www.irods.org/index.php/Tutorial

  iadmin mkuser testuser1 rodsadmin 

 iadmin moduser testuser1 type rodsuser 

 iadmin mkgroup testgroup 

 iadmin atg testgroup testuser1 

 iadmin lg testgroup

iRODS Server Control

The message at the end of the install show how to start and stop the server:

https://www.irods.org/index.php/installation_example

 For special network interfaces, you may need to modify server/config/irodsHost; see comments within it.  To use the iRODS command-line tools, update your PATH:     For csh users:         set path=(/home/schroede/dice/iRODS/clients/icommands/bin $path)     For sh or bash users:         PATH=/home/schroede/dice/iRODS/clients/icommands/bin:$PATH  To start and stop the servers, use 'irodsctl':     irodsctl start     irodsctl stop     irodsctl restart Add '--help' for a list of commands.  Please see the iRODS documentation for additional notes on how to manage the servers and adjust the configuration.

Federation of iRODS Servers

https://www.irods.org/index.php/Federation

Gives an overview of iRODS federation.

https://www.irods.org/index.php/Federation_Administration

At first this did not make a lot of sense.  However, after following the example on my own test server, it became clear.