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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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Open library data: more data & a flyer from Germany

Open data by the German National Library of Medicine The open library data movement in Germany has achieved a major success. In December, the German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED) announced the release of more than one Million bibliographic … Continue reading

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Open Bibliographic Data Flyer

The OKFN Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data created this draft version of an Open Bibliographic Data flye. It shows libraries the benefits of Open Data and appeals to them to open their data up. The work on this flyer … Continue reading

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Public Domain Composers

To follow up our previous post on the statistics we’d been mining from the composer data donated to use by Phillip Harper herewith is a list of the public domain composers (i.e. composers whose works are now in the public … Continue reading

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