Author Archives: Adrian Pohl

Minutes: 14th Virtual Meeting of the OKFN Openbiblio Group

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

Date September, 13th 2011, 15:00 GMT Channel Meeting was held via Skype and Etherpad Participants Adrian Pohl Peter Murray-Rust Jim Pitman Karen Coyle Agenda Brief reports from Jim Progress on BibServer/BibSoup http://bibsoup.net/ We have working uploads of BibTeX data with … Continue reading →

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Open national bibliography data by New Zealand National Library

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

A tweet by Owen Stephens prodded me to the New Zealand National Library’s service which provides the national bibliography as MARC/MARCXML dumps (350,000 records) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Great! Obviously this service has been around for a … Continue reading →

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NTNU University Library – a Linked Open Data Hub

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

The following guest post is by Rurik Thomas Greenall who works at the section for information resources at NTNU University Library, Trondheim in the area of linked data and resource access. His interests include programming, particularly for the semantic web, … Continue reading →

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ZB MED publishes open article data in medicine and life sciences

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

We are happy to announce the recent publication of article data in medicine and life sciences by the German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED). Two datasets have been published in August and registered at CKAN/the Data Hub: CC MED … Continue reading →

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Ex Libris, Alma and Open Data

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

This blog post is written by Carl Grant, chief librarian at Ex Libris and past president of Ex Libris North America, in answer to some questions that Adrian Pohl, coordinator of the OKFN Working Group on Open bibliographic Data, posed … Continue reading →

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Are bibliographies copyrightable? – the German case

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

Unfortunately, you have to deal with copyright and neighbouring rights like the European sui generis database right when you want to liberate data, be it bibliographic data or other data. In recent discussions about bibliographies and copyright, Peter Murray-Rust several … Continue reading →

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Minutes: 13th Virtual Meeting of the OKFN Openbiblio Group

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

Date July, 5th 2011, 15:00 GMT Channel Meeting was held via Skype and Etherpad Participants Adrian Pohl Peter Murray-Rust David Shotton Thomas Krichel Jim Pitman Karen Coyle Agenda Report from the #openbiblio workshop at #okcon2011 & okcon in general openbiblio … Continue reading →

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4 Stars for Metadata: an Open Ranking System for Library, Archive, and Museum Collection Metadata

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

This post was written by participants of the LOD-LAM Summit which was held on June 2nd/3rd in San Francisco and is crossposted on the Creative Commons blog and the OKFN blog. For author information see the list below the document. … Continue reading →

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Openbiblio at #elag2011 and #lodlam

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

I wrote a post over at the blog for the LOD-LAM (Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums) summit. It’s mainly a summary of the ELAG 2011 from an openbiblio viewpoint. See http://lod-lam.net/summit/2011/06/01/from-elag2011-to-lodlam for the post. Also, the German … Continue reading →

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Minutes: 11th Virtual Meeting of the OKFN Openbiblio Group

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

Date: May, 3rd 2011, 15:00 – 16:15 GMT Channel: Meeting was held via Skype and Etherpad Participants Adrian Pohl Peter Murray-Rust Karen Coyle Jim Pitman Mark MacGillivray late: Thomas Krichel Update on bibliographica Getting Open Bibliographic Data from PubMed Central … Continue reading →

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