Author Archives: Mark MacGillivray

Getting bibliographica content via jquery

It is possible to get records of the British Library dataset by requesting output from bibliographica via jquery. Here is an example: <!– get a copy of jquery locally –> &lt;!– –&gt; <!– get a copy of jquery from google … Continue reading

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Using the bibliographica sparql API

Details about how to use the sparql API on bibliographica are available at http://bibliographica.org/demos/sparql.html.

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open bibliographic data and dev8d

Ben, Mark and Rufus are attending Dev8D this week – 16th Feb – 18th Feb 2011. This is a very exciting event where we hope to see lots of people from UK higher education institutions engaging with open knowledge and … Continue reading

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Open bibliographic principles announced

On Monday 17th January at the Visions of a semantic molecular future symposium and hackfest, during a presentation packed with displays of exciting new technology, Peter Murray-Rust introduced the Open Bibliographic Principles on behalf of the contributor group that has … Continue reading

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JISC OpenBibliography: Development ideas

Now that we have a queryable British National Bibliography dataset, we are investigating useful functionality to take advantage of the data. The team have listed a few development ideas based both on our own interests and on discussion with others … Continue reading

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Neil Wilson on open British Library metadata

Opening up the BL’s Metadata Neil Wilson presented at GLAMWIKI on the British Library open metadata strategy, providing an overview of the history and responsibilities of the British Library, and how open metadata relates to the vision of future library … Continue reading

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JISC OpenBibliography: British Library data release

The JISC OpenBibliography project is excited to announce that the British Library is providing a set of bibliographic data under CC0 Public Domain Dedication Licence. We have initially received a dataset consisting of approximately 3 million records, which is now … Continue reading

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JISC OpenBibliography: Peter Murray-Rust at RLUK

Peter Murray-Rust will be attending the RLUK conference on the 10th to 12th November 2010, and he has issued a request for community involvement on his blog. Please have a read, and get in touch if you are interested in … Continue reading

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JISC OpenBibliography: progress report

The JISC Open Bibliography project has had some success recently, and is proceeding to build on that success with further development and advocacy. This seems like a good opportunity to recap the project so far, and to consider what is … Continue reading

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JISC OpenBibliography: CUL data release

The JISC OpenBibliography project has received agreement from Cambridge University Library to provide a set of bibliographic data under an open license (ODC PDDL). This is great news for the project and the wider community, and we will be working … Continue reading

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