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Author Archives: Adrian Pohl
Minutes: 16th Virtual Meeting of the OKFN Openbiblio Group
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
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
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
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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Interview on Open Bibliographic Data in German Open Data Blog
Yesterday, an interview was published in the Open Data blog of the German weekly newspaper “Die Zeit”. In this interview, I answer questions asked by Lorenz Matzat about open bibliograpic data, the OKFN’s working group and openbiblio activities going on … Continue reading
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German Guide for Open Library Catalogue Data
The German legal scholar and lawyer Dr. Till Kreutzer has written a legal guide titled “Open Data – Releasing data from library catalogues” at the request of the North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz). For some time now there has … Continue reading
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Did you hear that loud bang? That was CENL releasing their data under CC0
The conference of European National Librarians (CENL) came up with great news last wednesday! Data from all European national libraries will be published under an open license! From the announcement: “Meeting at the Royal Library of Denmark, the Conference of … Continue reading
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Open bibliographic data checklist
This guest post by Jindřich Mynarz was originally published here under a Creative Commons Attribution license. I have decided to write a few points that might be of interest to those thinking about publishing open bibliographic data. The following is … Continue reading
Swedish National Bibliography as Open Data
In the blog of Sweden’s national library system LIBRIS it was announced today that the Swedish National Bibliography along with the authority data are published under a CC0 license. “We are now pleased to announce the general availability of these … Continue reading
LOD at Bibliothèque nationale de France
Romain Wenz of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) informed me via email about this pleasant development: The BnF’s Linked Data service now is a Linked Open Data service! The BnF LOD service is in the first instance limited to … Continue reading