Author Archives: Adrian Pohl

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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DBLP releases its 1.8 million bibliographic records as open data

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

The following guest post is by Marcel R. Ackermann who works at the Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics on expanding the DBLP computer science bibliography. Right from the early days of the DBLP, the decision has been made … Continue reading →

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Minutes: 16th Virtual Meeting of the OKFN Openbiblio Group

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

Date December, 6th 2011, 16:00 GMT Channel Meeting was held via Skype and Etherpad Participants Adrian Pohl Jim Pitman Karen Coyle Agenda Report from Germany #swib11 Adrian reported from the third conference Semantic Web in Libraries (SWIB) which this year … Continue reading →

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German Library Networks BVB and KOBV release 23 Million Records

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

The two German library networks BVB (BibliotheksVerbund Bayern = Library Network Bavaria) and KOBV (Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg = Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg) have recently released 23 million records from their joint union catalogue under a CC0 license. The opening of … Continue reading →

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Recommendations on Releasing Library Data as Open Data

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

Last week, the German KIM-DINI working group (KIM = Competence Centre Interoperable Metadata) officially published recommentations for the release of open data by libraries and related institutions. The recommendations are intended to serve information facilities as guide and reference text … Continue reading →

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Minutes: 15th Virtual Meeting of the OKFN Openbiblio Group

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

Date November, 8th 2011, 16:00 GMT Channel Meeting was held via Skype and Etherpad Participants Adrian Pohl Sam Leon (OKF Community Coordinator) Jim Pitman Thad Guidry (Freebase – Google Refine) Agenda Sam’s Introduction Sam recently joined the OKF as community … Continue reading →

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