Author Archives: Adrian Pohl

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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Article on Author Identity and Open Bibliographic Data

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Adrian Pohl

Jim Pitman – Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley and active in the OKFN Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data – published an article “Author Identity and Open Bibliography” in the IMS Bulletin. He gives an … Continue reading →

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Nature releases Metadata for 450k Articles into the Public Domain

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Adrian Pohl

Yesterday Nature Publishing Group announced the launch of a Linked Data platform with RDF descriptions of more than 450,000 articles published by NPG since 1869. From the press release: “Nature Publishing Group (NPG) today is pleased to join the linked … Continue reading →

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Minutes: 20th Virtual Meeting of the OKFN Openbiblio Group

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Adrian Pohl

Date: April, 3rd 2012, 15:00 GMT Channels:Meeting was held via Skype and Etherpad Participants Adrian Pohl Jim Pitman Karen Coyle Agenda Action Items from last meeting Adrian will personally ask people from the German National Library regarding BibJSON conversion –> … Continue reading →

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Minutes: 19th Virtual Meeting of the OKFN Openbiblio Group

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Adrian Pohl

Date: March, 6th 2011, 16:00 GMT Channels: Meeting was held via Skype and Etherpad Participants Adrian Pohl Sebastian Nordhoff Jim Pitman Agenda Action points from the last meeting Adrian has posted to the KIM-DINI-LLD list regarding the national bibliography and … Continue reading →

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Linked Data at the Biblioteca Nacional de España

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Adrian Pohl

The following guest post is from the National Library of Spain and the Ontology Engineering Group (Technical University of Madrid (UPM)). Datos.bne.es is an initiative of the Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE) whose aim is to enrich the Semantic Web … Continue reading →

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German National Library goes LOD & publishes National Bibliography

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Adrian Pohl

Good news from Germany. The German National Library changed its licensing regime for Linked Data to CC0 which makes the data open according to the open definition, has begun to publish the German national bibliography as Linked Open Data. For … Continue reading →

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Sweden Ends Negotiations with OCLC

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Adrian Pohl

The following guest post is by Maria Kadesjö who works at the Libris-department at the National Library of Sweden. The national library of Sweden has ended negotiations with OCLC on participation in WorldCat, as the parties could not come to … Continue reading →

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Minutes: 17th Virtual Meeting of the OKFN Openbiblio Group

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Adrian Pohl

Date: January, 3rd 2011, 16:00 GMT Channels: Meeting was held via Skype and Etherpad Participants Adrian Pohl Peter Murray-Rust Thad Guidry Thomas Krichel (first half) Karen Coyle (first half) Jim Pitman (second half) Agenda OCLC’s FAST release Is this open … Continue reading →

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European PSI Directive to be Expanded to Cover Memory Institutions

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

This morning Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for the Digital Agenda announced a new Open Data Strategy for Europe. Jonathan Gray has posted some more information including quotes on the OKF blog. What is especially of … Continue reading →

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