Category Archives: Data

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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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Comparative Serialisation of RDF in JSON

Posted on May 4, 2011 by richardjones

This is a comparison of RDF-JSON and JSON-LD for serialising bibliographic RDF data. Given that we are also working with BibServer we have taken a BibJSON document as our source data for comparison. The objective was to both understand these … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Open Linked Data at Mannheim University Library

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

Mannheim University Library recently announced that it releases its catalog data under a CC0 licence. Translating part of the announcement: After Mannheim University Library was the first German library to publish catalog data as Linked Data (…), both the original … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Rådata nå! Norwegian Personal Name Authorities as Linked Open Data

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

Recently the Norwegian personal name authorities have been published as Linked Open Data under the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL), see http://data.bibsys.no/data/: The Rådata nå! data set is a collection of around 9 million triples representing … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Open Data from Dortmund University Library

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

Dortmund University Library catalog data has been opened up on March 1st, 2011. As announced in the libraries blog 1,2 Million bibliographic records are released into the public domain under a CC0 waiver. The data is released in cooperation with … Continue reading →

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