Tag: Martin Wong

The Vision of Linked Open Data: Martin Wong and the METRO Network

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This post appears as part of my 8-month fellowship with the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), which ended in June 2017. My project was entitled “Interlinking Resources, Diversifying Representation: Linked Open Data in the METRO Community”. This particular post appears as a summation of my project research.

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Using Beautiful Soup with Python for Webscraping

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BY KAREN H.

Topic(s):

  • Introduction to the process of webscraping, using Python and Beautiful Soup

Audience:

  • People who want to understand the process for extracting data from web pages, especially in situations when direct access to the backend database might not be possible;
  • People who program in Python and want to know more about the HTML parser Beautiful Soup;
  • Digital humanists, scientists, infographic designers, etc..

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