Author Archives: Naomi Lillie

Day 1 of the March Sprint

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

Agendas are funny things; you have an idea of what you want to do, you write a few bullet-points to focus it a little and you presume things will naturally lead on from one thing to the next… Well, not … Continue reading →

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March Sprint and Meet-up

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

There will be a coding and planning sprint for the project team in Edinburgh on Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th March, with tying-up of loose ends on Wednesday 14th for those still around. Following on from the productivity of January’s … Continue reading →

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Linked Open Data as explained by Europeana

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

Antoine Isaac recently sent an e-mail around the List to let us know that Europeana has published its first dataset, comprising 2.4 million objects, under CC0. Furthermore, the new Data Exchange Agreement, which data suppliers are required to sign in … Continue reading →

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BibSoup beta: released

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

BibSoup is here! And it’s going to revolutionise how you work with bibliographic metadata. Peter has been blogging for a while about BibSoup (see here for the basics and here for how to use it) and we’ve mentioned it in … Continue reading →

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Communication processes – for the record!

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

This follows discussion that began at the meeting on 1st February, and reasserts existing processes. Any proposal for discussion is published ahead of the meeting at which it is to be raised, with an email inviting everyone on the openbiblio-dev … Continue reading →

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Comparing existing bib tools

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

Update to this post: turns out there was a page, just not one I was aware of – please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software. I have linked to this from http://wiki.okfn.org/Projects/jiscopenbib2. Isn’t it handy when people have already done the job for us… … Continue reading →

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Open Bibliography at the start of 2012

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

Adrian’s post about the German National Library prompted me to note down a few other exciting developments over the last month or so. Christmas and the holiday season may be perceived as a time for winding down, but not for … Continue reading →

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BibServer screencast and user perspective

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

BibServer software allows people (you, me, the person in the office down the road) to hold and share collections of searchable data. Be it the list of books you have to read for your course this semester, the publications you … Continue reading →

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Sprint videos

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

Last week’s sprint produced more than just parsers, game-plans and blog posts (Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3): it also allowed Peter and Naomi to stretch their directorial wings and produce some video blogs to record what we were … Continue reading →

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Thursday 19th January – Open Biblio Sprint: Day 3

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

Today we were joined by additional members of the OKFN team from various parts of the world – Ira, Sam and Primavera. Then the fun began… Sam and Mark discussed the interface between Open Biblio and the TEXTUS project, looking … Continue reading →

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