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German National Library publishes 11.5 Million MARC records from national bibliography
In January 2012 the German National Library (DNB) already started publishing the national bibliographc as linked data under a CC0 license. Today, the DNB announced that it also publishes the national bibliography up to the year 2011 as MARC data. … Continue reading
Metadata for over 20 Million Cultural Objects released into the Public Domain by Europeana
Europeana today announced that its dataset comprising descriptions of more than 20 Million cultural objects is from now on openly licensed with Creative Commons’ public domain waiver CC0. From the announcement: “Opportunities for apps developers, designers and other digital innovators … Continue reading
Importing Spanish National Library to BibServer
The Spanish National Library (Biblioteca Nacional de España or BNE) has released their library catalogue as Linked Open Data on the Datahub. Initially this entry only containd the SPARQL endpoints and not downloads of the full datasets. After some enquiries … Continue reading
Posted in BibServer, Data, JISC OpenBib, OKFN Openbiblio
Tagged national library, wp5, wp6
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Nature’s data platform strongly expanded
Nature has largely expanded its Linked Open Data platform that was launched in April 2012. From today’s press release: “As part of its wider commitment to open science, Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG) Linked Data Platform now hosts more than 270 … Continue reading
Community Discussions 3
It has been a couple of months since the round-up on Community Discussions 2 and we have been busy! BiblioHack was a highlight for me, and last week included a meeting of many OKFN types – here’s a picture taken … Continue reading
Posted in BibServer, Data, event, events, JISC OpenBib, licensing, News, OKFN Openbiblio
Tagged jiscopenbib2, wp3, wp4, wp5
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Linked Data in worldcat.org
This post was first published on Übertext: Blog. Two days ago OCLC announced that linked data has been added to worldcat.org. I took a quick look at it and just want to share some notes on this. OCLC goes open, finally … Continue reading
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Bringing the Open German National Bibliography to a BibServer
This blog post is written by Etienne Posthumus and Adrian Pohl. We are happy that the German National Library recently released the German National Bibliography as Linked Open Data, see (announcement). At the #bibliohack this week we worked on getting … Continue reading
BiblioHack: Day 2, part 2
Pens down! Or, rather, key-strokes cease! BiblioHack has drawn to a close and the results of two days’ hard labour are in: A Bibliographic Toolkit Utilising BibServer Peter Murray-Rust reported back on what was planned, what was done, and the … Continue reading
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BiblioHack: Day 2, part 1
After easing into the day with breakfast and coffee, each of the 3 sub-groups gave an overview of the mini-project’s aim and fed back on the evening’s progress: Peter Murray-Rust revisited the overarching theme of ‘A Bibliographic Toolkit’ and the … Continue reading
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BiblioHack: Day 1
The first day of BiblioHack was a day of combinations and sub-divisions! The event attendees started the day all together, both hackers and workshop / seminar attendees, and Sam introduced the purpose of the day as follows: coders – to … Continue reading