Here's a rambling, 18 minute screencast of me firing data through a social clipboarding service in tracer bullet mode. A quick summary of web clipboards leads into a demo of using unAPI [1] to copy image data from flickr and paste it through unalog using the POST and GET functions of the atom publishing protocol [2] and a json-wrapped [3] data model based loosely on mpeg21 did.
I've never done a screencast before, so go easy.
Oh!, and I forgot one important thing. I left off showing that the pasted-in flickr data is available in unalog listed just like any other pasted-in link, with its tags and so forth. Here's a screenshot just to prove it:
Ah, CSHL Archives will speak OAI, and it will be good It only took a couple of years (tags: OAI CSHL DAMS Digitool) Google Local - from: 360 park avenue south ny ny to: 15 W 16th St, New...
Links:
[1] http://unapi.info/
[2] http://bitworking.org/projects/atom/
[3] http://onebiglibrary.net/project/opa/opa-0.2-release-with-json-wrapper
[4] http://www.flickr.com/photos/dchud/110354883/
[5] http://www.bookism.org/old/hermes//001575.php