Author Archives: Mark MacGillivray

Minutes: 12th Virtual Meeting of the OKFN Openbiblio Group

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Mark MacGillivray

Date June 7th, 2011, 1500 GMT Channel Meeting was held via Etherpad Participants Adrian Pohl Karen Coyle Jim Pitman Mark MacGillivray Will Waites Planning an Open Bibliography activity for OKCON This was the main focus of the call this month. … Continue reading →

Posted in minutes, OKFN Openbiblio | Leave a comment

Medline dataset

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Mark MacGillivray

Announcing the CC0 Medline dataset We are happy to report that we now have a full, clean public domain (CC0) version of the Medline dataset available for use by the community. What is the Medline dataset? The Medline dataset is … Continue reading →

Posted in Data, JISC OpenBib, News, OKFN Openbiblio, Semantic Web | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

OpenBiblio workshop report

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Mark MacGillivray

#openbiblio #jiscopenbib The OpenBiblio workshop took place on 6th May 2011, at London Knowledge Lab Participants Peter Murray-Rust (Open Bibliography project, University of Cambridge, IUCr) Mark MacGillivray (Open Bibliography project, University of Edinburgh, OKF, Cottage Labs) William Waites (Open Bibliography … Continue reading →

Posted in BibServer, Data, event, JISC OpenBib, OKFN Openbiblio, Semantic Web | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Follow-up to serialising RDF in JSON

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Mark MacGillivray

Following on from Richard’s post yesterday, we now have a JSON-LD serialiser for RDFlib. This is still a work in progress, and there may be things that it is serialising incorrectly. So, please give us feedback on this, and tell … Continue reading →

Posted in BibServer, Data, JISC OpenBib, OKFN Openbiblio, Semantic Web | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Getting open bibliographic data from (UK)PMC / PubMed

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Mark MacGillivray

For some time now, the JISC Open Bibliography project team has been attempting to get open bibliographic data from (UK)PMC / PubMed. Everyone involved (Robert Kiley – Wellcome, Ben O’Steen, Peter Murray-Rust – JISC OpenBib, Jeff Beck – NIH/NLM/NCBI, Johanna … Continue reading →

Posted in Data, JISC OpenBib, OKFN Openbiblio | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Bibliographica and Edinburgh International Science Festival

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Mark MacGillivray

This weekend I was trying to build a useful search tool to help my wife find interesting events on at the Edinburgh International Science Festival. One problem was that the dataset was poor, and the descriptions did not always give … Continue reading →

Posted in Data, event, JISC OpenBib, OKFN Openbiblio | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

open theses at EURODOC

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Mark MacGillivray

#jiscopenbib #opentheses On Friday 1st April 2011, Mark MacGillivray, Peter Murray-Rust and Ben O’Steen remotely attended the EURODOC conference in Vilnius, Lithuania in order to take part in an Open Theses workshop locally hosted by Daniel Mietchen and Alfredo Ferreira … Continue reading →

Posted in JISC OpenBib | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

EURODOC open theses workshop

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Mark MacGillivray

Copied from Peter – http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/03/29/open-theses-at-eurodoc-2011-04-01-sleepless-in-seattle/: #jiscopenbib #eurodoc #opentheses As part of our JISCOpenBIB project we are running a workshop on Open Theses at EURODOC 2011. “We” is an extended community of volunteers centered round the main JISC project. In that … Continue reading →

Posted in Data, event, JISC OpenBib, OKFN Openbiblio | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Scholarly HTML

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Mark MacGillivray

Hackfest at Cambridge on today, about scholarly HTML: http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2011/03/08/scholarly-html-hackfest/ Mark and possibly Rufus will be there, interesting findings will be available at http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/

Posted in event, JISC OpenBib, OKFN Openbiblio | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Open Bibliographic Data Challenge Update

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Mark MacGillivray

The Open Bibliographic Data Challenge continues, and we await more interesting submissions. one prize awarded Further details about the challenge entry that was awarded a prize at dev8d have been written up by the challenge winner, Damian Steer. We would … Continue reading →

Posted in JISC OpenBib | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment