Monthly Archives: October 2022

Aaltodocbot

Although I don’t belong to Aalto University staff any longer, I still maintain the Twitter bot FromA! that saw daylight in January 2015. It posts links to articles, dissertations, reports et al. published in the Aalto University publication archive https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi

The posting cycle is slightly random at the moment because I still haven’t built it on GitHub Actions, which is the plan. On my private Windows 10 laptop, scheduling proved to be oddly hazardous with Task Scheduler so I had to deactivate it and run the bot manually every now and then.

If you are interested in the bot code, it is on GitHub.

The search after PDO product descriptions

You never know when a small piece of casual information develops to a journey into something a lot bigger. This time, it was a remark by a local cheese seller.

A notebook on how to search protected foodstuff names from the semantic repository of EU publications with SPARQL, and how to find their product description document. Includes a Shiny app to select product links from a small subset.