Category Archives: JISC OpenBib

BibServer new functionality

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Mark MacGillivray

During the sprint last week we made a lot of progress with the new functionality for version 0.5.0 – however, Etienne and I got so excited by some new ideas that we did not finish on time; apologies for the … Continue reading →

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Day 3 of the March Sprint

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

This morning we were buzzing from the Meet-up, excited about the interesting people we met and the cool things they talked about. Graham Steel, who was in town for yesterday’s event, stopped by to see what the team was up … Continue reading →

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#OpenDataEDB: the results

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

Last night was the first OKFN Meet-Up in Scotland* at the Ghillie Dhu, Edinburgh, run in collaboration with DevCSI. 19 people attended from around the city and nearby, including Glasgow, and those visiting for the Open Biblio Sprint represented Cambridge, … Continue reading →

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Day 2 of the March Sprint

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

Today started well: Berkeley and PubMed contacted us about running a BibServer, which is great! It was also a day of comings and goings: Etienne arrived to code with Mark, Richard Jones of Cottage Labs dropped by to play around … 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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Day 1 of the March Sprint

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

Agendas are funny things; you have an idea of what you want to do, you write a few bullet-points to focus it a little and you presume things will naturally lead on from one thing to the next… Well, not … Continue reading →

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March Sprint and Meet-up

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

There will be a coding and planning sprint for the project team in Edinburgh on Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th March, with tying-up of loose ends on Wednesday 14th for those still around. Following on from the productivity of January’s … Continue reading →

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JSON-LD / BibJSON

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Mark MacGillivray

There have been requests on our mailing list recently to consider the various options for supporting validation of BibJSON and for supporting namespacing. These two options require some further consideration. Validation Efforts so far around BibJSON have focussed on building … Continue reading →

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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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Communication processes – for the record!

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

This follows discussion that began at the meeting on 1st February, and reasserts existing processes. Any proposal for discussion is published ahead of the meeting at which it is to be raised, with an email inviting everyone on the openbiblio-dev … Continue reading →

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