Category Archives: Data

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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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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Linked Data at the Biblioteca Nacional de España

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Adrian Pohl

The following guest post is from the National Library of Spain and the Ontology Engineering Group (Technical University of Madrid (UPM)). Datos.bne.es is an initiative of the Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE) whose aim is to enrich the Semantic Web … Continue reading →

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German National Library goes LOD & publishes National Bibliography

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Adrian Pohl

Good news from Germany. The German National Library changed its licensing regime for Linked Data to CC0 which makes the data open according to the open definition, has begun to publish the German national bibliography as Linked Open Data. For … Continue reading →

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DBLP releases its 1.8 million bibliographic records as open data

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

The following guest post is by Marcel R. Ackermann who works at the Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics on expanding the DBLP computer science bibliography. Right from the early days of the DBLP, the decision has been made … Continue reading →

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German Library Networks BVB and KOBV release 23 Million Records

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

The two German library networks BVB (BibliotheksVerbund Bayern = Library Network Bavaria) and KOBV (Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg = Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg) have recently released 23 million records from their joint union catalogue under a CC0 license. The opening of … Continue reading →

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Finnish Turku City Library and the Vaski consortia now Open Data with 1.8M MARC-records

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Mace Ojala

I’m happy to announce that our Vaski-consortia of public libraries  serving total 300 000 citizens in Turku and the a dozen surrounding municipalities in western Finland, have recently published all of our 1.8 million bibliographical records in the open, as … Continue reading →

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Did you hear that loud bang? That was CENL releasing their data under CC0

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

The conference of European National Librarians (CENL) came up with great news last wednesday! Data from all European national libraries will be published under an open license! From the announcement: “Meeting at the Royal Library of Denmark, the Conference of … Continue reading →

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Swedish National Bibliography as Open Data

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

In the blog of Sweden’s national library system LIBRIS it was announced today that the Swedish National Bibliography along with the authority data are published under a CC0 license. “We are now pleased to announce the general availability of these … Continue reading →

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