Category Archives: guest post

Europeana and Linked Open Data

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Antoine Isaac

Europeana has recently released a new version of its Linked Data Pilot, data.europeana.eu. We now publish data for 2.4 million objects under an open metadata licence: CC0, the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication. This post elaborates on this earlier one … Continue reading →

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Installing BibServer from the repo on Mac OSX

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

The following guest post is by Edmund Chamberlain who works at Cambridge Unviversity Library. As part of my work on the Open Bibliography project, I wanted to test how easy it would be for an average Systems Librarian such as … 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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Sweden Ends Negotiations with OCLC

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Adrian Pohl

The following guest post is by Maria Kadesjö who works at the Libris-department at the National Library of Sweden. The national library of Sweden has ended negotiations with OCLC on participation in WorldCat, as the parties could not come to … 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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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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Open bibliographic data checklist

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

This guest post by Jindřich Mynarz was originally published here under a Creative Commons Attribution license. I have decided to write a few points that might be of interest to those thinking about publishing open bibliographic data. The following is … Continue reading →

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NTNU University Library – a Linked Open Data Hub

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

The following guest post is by Rurik Thomas Greenall who works at the section for information resources at NTNU University Library, Trondheim in the area of linked data and resource access. His interests include programming, particularly for the semantic web, … Continue reading →

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Ex Libris, Alma and Open Data

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

This blog post is written by Carl Grant, chief librarian at Ex Libris and past president of Ex Libris North America, in answer to some questions that Adrian Pohl, coordinator of the OKFN Working Group on Open bibliographic Data, posed … Continue reading →

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