Author Archives: Adrian Pohl

German National Library publishes 11.5 Million MARC records from national bibliography

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Adrian Pohl

In January 2012 the German National Library (DNB) already started publishing the national bibliographc as linked data under a CC0 license. Today, the DNB announced that it also publishes the national bibliography up to the year 2011 as MARC data. … Continue reading →

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Discovery silos vs. the open web

Posted on June 23, 2013 by Adrian Pohl

Bibliographic data that is not openly available on the web is harmful. In this post I’d like to point to a recent incident that demonstrates this: a correspondence between the board of the Orbis Cascade Alliance (“a consortium of 37 … Continue reading →

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Minutes: 28th Virtual Meeting of the OKFN Working Group for Open Bibliographic Data

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Adrian Pohl

Date: February, 5th 2013, 16:00 GMT Channels: Meeting was held via Skype and Etherpad Participants Adrian Pohl Karen Coyle Tom Johnson Tom Morris On the Etherpad: Peter Murray-Rust Mark McGillivray Agenda As there were two new participants to the meeting … Continue reading →

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Minutes: 27th Virtual Meeting of the OKFN Working Group for Open Bibliographic Data

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Adrian Pohl

Date: January, 8th 2013, 16:00 GMT Channels: Meeting was held via Skype and Etherpad Participants Adrian Pohl Peter Murray-Rust Richard Wallis Agenda Schemabib Extension group update Links: Participants: http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/participants Mailing list: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-schemabibex/ Wiki: http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/wiki/Main_Page W3C community and business group, started … Continue reading →

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Minutes: 26th Virtual Meeting of the OKFN Working Group for Open Bibliographic Data

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Adrian Pohl

Date: November, 6th 2012, 16:00 GMT Channels: Meeting was held via Skype and Etherpad Participants Adrian Pohl Karen Coyle Joris Pekel Jim Pitman Agenda ORCID launched “ORCID makes its code available under an open source license, and will post an … Continue reading →

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Metadata for over 20 Million Cultural Objects released into the Public Domain by Europeana

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Adrian Pohl

Europeana today announced that its dataset comprising descriptions of more than 20 Million cultural objects is from now on openly licensed with Creative Commons’ public domain waiver CC0. From the announcement: “Opportunities for apps developers, designers and other digital innovators … Continue reading →

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Nature’s data platform strongly expanded

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Adrian Pohl

Nature has largely expanded its Linked Open Data platform that was launched in April 2012. From today’s press release: “As part of its wider commitment to open science, Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG) Linked Data Platform now hosts more than 270 … Continue reading →

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Linked Data in worldcat.org

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Adrian Pohl

This post was first published on Übertext: Blog. Two days ago OCLC announced that linked data has been added to worldcat.org. I took a quick look at it and just want to share some notes on this. OCLC goes open, finally … Continue reading →

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Bringing the Open German National Bibliography to a BibServer

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Adrian Pohl

This blog post is written by Etienne Posthumus and Adrian Pohl. We are happy that the German National Library recently released the German National Bibliography as Linked Open Data, see (announcement). At the #bibliohack this week we worked on getting … Continue reading →

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Harvard Library releases 12M bibliographic records under CC0

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Adrian Pohl

Harvard Library yesterday announced the release of 12 Million bibliographic record into the public domain using CC0. From the announcement: “The Harvard Library announced it is making more than 12 million catalog records from Harvard’s 73 libraries publicly available. The … Continue reading →

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