Author Archives: Adrian Pohl

Open Linked Data at Mannheim University Library

Mannheim University Library recently announced that it releases its catalog data under a CC0 licence. Translating part of the announcement: After Mannheim University Library was the first German library to publish catalog data as Linked Data (…), both the original … Continue reading

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Minutes: 10th Virtual meeting of the OKFN Openbiblio Group

Date: April, 5st 2011, 15:00-16:15 GMT Channel: Meeting was held via Skype and Etherpad Participants Adrian Pohl Jim Pitman Primavera De Filippi Karen Coyle James Robert Griffin III Thomas Krichel William Waites Lucy Chambers publicdomainworks.net & bibliographica.org Primavera from publicdomainworks.net … Continue reading

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Rådata nå! Norwegian Personal Name Authorities as Linked Open Data

Recently the Norwegian personal name authorities have been published as Linked Open Data under the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL), see http://data.bibsys.no/data/: The Rådata nå! data set is a collection of around 9 million triples representing … Continue reading

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Is it Open Bibliographic Data?

Many members of the Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data have been engaged for a long time in the scientific community, the scholarly information community or the library community. They all believe in the need for open data as a … Continue reading

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Open Data from Dortmund University Library

Dortmund University Library catalog data has been opened up on March 1st, 2011. As announced in the libraries blog 1,2 Million bibliographic records are released into the public domain under a CC0 waiver. The data is released in cooperation with … Continue reading

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Minutes: 9th Virtual meeting of the OKFN Openbiblio Group

Date: March, 1st 2011, 16:00-17:15 GMT Channel: Meeting was held via Skype and Etherpad Participants Adrian Pohl Thomas Krichel Rufus Pollock Karen Coyle Jim Pitman The group’s web presence at openbiblio.net How do we improve the web site? ACTION: The … Continue reading

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LOD-LAM: International Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives, and Museums Summit

June 2-3, 2011 there will take place the International Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives, and Museums Summit in San Francisco, CA. It’s still time to apply until February 28th. The International Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives, and Museums … Continue reading

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Minutes: 8th Virtual meeting of the OKFN Openbiblio Group

Date: February, 1st 2011, 16:00-17:15 GMT Channel: Meeting was held via Skype and Etherpad Participants Adrian Pohl Karen Coyle Rufus Pollock Thomas Krichel Tatiana de la O Openbiblio Principles: What’s next? As the Principles on Open Bibliographic Data have been … Continue reading

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Minutes: 7th virtual meeting of the OKFN Openbiblio Group

Date: January, 4th 2011, 16:00-17:15 GMT Channel: Meeting was held via Skype and Google Docs Participants Adrian Pohl Karen Coyle Rufus Pollock Peter Murray-Rust Jim Pitman Alexander Dutton Summary Discussing the draft Principles on Open Bibliographic Data For background information … Continue reading

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Open library data: more data & a flyer from Germany

Open data by the German National Library of Medicine The open library data movement in Germany has achieved a major success. In December, the German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED) announced the release of more than one Million bibliographic … Continue reading

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