

Data Unbound

Data Unbound
Helping organizations access and share data effectively.  Special focus on web APIs for data integration.
	Some of what I missed from the Cmd-D Automation Conference
The CMD-D&#124;Masters of Automation one-day conference in early August would have been right up my alley: It’ll be a full day of exploring the current state of automation technology on both Apple platforms, sharing ideas and concepts, and showing what’s possible—all with the goal of inspiring and furthering development of your own automation projects. Fortunately, [&#8230;]
	Fine-tuning a Python wrapper for the hypothes.is web API and other #ianno17 followup
In anticipation of #ianno17 Hack Day, I wrote about my plans for the event, one of which was to revisit my own Python wrapper for the nascent hypothes.is web API. Instead of spending much time on my own wrapper, I spent most of the day working with Jon Udell&#039;s wrapper for the API. I&#039;ve been [&#8230;]
	Revisiting hypothes.is at I Annotate 2017
I&#039;m looking forward to hacking on web and epub annotation at the #ianno17 Hack Day. I won&#039;t be at the I Annotate 2017 conference per se but will be curious to see what comes out of the annual conference. I continue to have high hopes for digital annotations, both on the Web and in non-web [&#8230;]
	My thoughts about Fargo.io using fargo.io

	Organizing Your Life With Python:  a submission for PyCon 2015?
I have penciled into my calendar a trip  to Montreal to attend PyCon 2014.   In my moments of suboptimal planning, I wrote an overly ambitious abstract for a talk or poster session I was planning to submit.  As I sat down this morning to meet the deadline for submitting a proposal for a poster [&#8230;]
	Current Status of Data Unbound LLC in Pennsylvania
I&#039;m currently in the process of closing down Data Unbound LLC in Pennsylvania.  I submitted the paperwork to dissolve the legal entity in April 2013 and have been amazed to learn that it may take up to a year to get the final approval done.  In the meantime, as I establishing a similar California legal [&#8230;]
	Must Get Cracking on Organizing Your Life with Python
Talk and tutorial proposals for PyCon 2014 are due tomorrow (9/15) .  I was considering submitting a proposal until I took the heart the appropriate admonition against &#034;conference-driven&#034; development of the program committee.   I will nonetheless use the Oct 15 and Nov 1 deadlines for lightning talks and proposals respectively to judge whether to [&#8230;]
	Embedding Github gists in WordPress
As I gear up I to write more about programming, I have installed the Embed GitHub Gist plugin. So by writing &#x5b;gist id=5625043&#x5d; in the text of this post, I can embed https://gist.github.com/rdhyee/5625043 into the post to get:
	Working with Open Data
I&#039;m very excited to be teaching a new course Working with Open Data at the UC Berkeley School of Information in the Spring 2013 semester: Open data — data that is free for use, reuse, and redistribution — is an intellectual treasure-trove that has given rise to many unexpected and often fruitful applications. In this [&#8230;]
	A mundane task: updating a config file to retain old settings
I want to have a hand in creating an excellent personal information manager (PIM) that can be a worthy successor to Ecco Pro. So far, running EccoExt (a clever and expansive hack of Ecco Pro) has been a eminently practical solution.   You can download the most recent version of this actively developed extension from [&#8230;]