Introduction When talking about software maintainability, we always imply that you can extend or change a given software (even by another person than the original maintainer) without breaking the code or introducing bugs. This premise assumes that ther...

Introduction Since 2004, the Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) offers an aggregated metadata search over scientific publications. By indexing well over 300 million records (60% of which are open access1) from almost 10,000 international repositor...

Why you may want to have authenticated users There are a few features of web applications we – as users – grew accustomed to. Like bookmarking things on our favourite marketplaces for instance. For a Specialised Information Service, this fe...

Like many other Specialised Information Services (FID), we are working with XSLT to map XML metadata from data providers to our data model, an extended version of the RDF-XML based Europeana Data Model (EDM). In the FID Performing Arts (FID DK), we cur...

When hearing the term beacon, people might think of flares or a lighthouse at first. It can certainly be a guide in the ocean of different authority files on the web. In this post, I will take a closer look at BEACON files, their implementation and why...

In the first post of this series, I looked at how to achieve parallel execution in Python using multiprocessing and discussed how this is unsuitable with WSGI-based web frameworks because WSGI only allows the web server to create new processes, not the...