LITERARY MACHINES

I revisited an old Go package I've been using over the past few years to build IIIF manifests — nothing fancy, just some glue around structs and JSON.

Pagefind caught my attention about a year ago, and since then I've adopted it in several hobby projects (nothing work-related): some blogs built with static generators like Hugo or Zola, some old HTML content distributed on CD-ROM, and some mailing list a…

I've always been looking for simple solutions to serve digitized documents in static format, where the cost of maintaining an IIIF image server is prohibitive and I need something simpler to manage and preserve.

In the context of electronic books, I've always been frustrated by how reading applications relegate navigation of table of contents to a minor feature in their UI/UX.

Hyperlinks are the essence of the web.

Ho recentemente scoperto la disponibilità delle API del catalogo SBN, sebbene non sappia da quanto tempo siano state rilasciate.

In the realm of cultural heritage, we're not just developing websites; we're creating data platforms.

Creating and maintaining an online digital collection can be a complex process involving multiple components, from organizational procedures to software solutions.

A few years ago, I had developed a small application that allowed you to "frame" a specific part of an IIIF image and share it on the web through simple, concise URLs.

A short guide to download digitized books from Internet Archive and rehost on your own infrastructure using IIIF with full-text search.

Four years have passed since i first wrote of pywb: it was a young tool at the time, but already usable and extremely simple to deploy.

Webarchiving activities, as any other activity where an HTTP client is involved, leave marks of their steps: the web server you are visiting or crawling will save your IP address in its logs (or even worse it can decide to ban your IP).

Il 30 maggio 2016 viene annunciato il rilascio libero della Bibliografia Nazionale Italiana (BNI).

Linkrot also affects epub files (who would have thought!

Come creare una api per un form con autocompletamento usando i termini del Nuovo Soggettario, con i Sorted Sets di Redis e Nginx+Lua.

vips is a fast image processing system.

For a long time the only free (I'm unaware of commercial ones) implementation of a web archival replay software has been the Wayback Machine (now Openwayback).

Come usare gli opendata dell'Anagrafe delle Biblioteche Italiane e disegnare su una mappa web gli indirizzi delle biblioteche.

Alcuni mesi fa è stata rilasciata da ICCU una app mobile per consultare l'OPAC SBN.