Category Archives: JISC OpenBib

"Bundling" instances of author names together without using owl:sameas

Bundling? It’s a verb I’ve taken from ”Glaser, H., Millard, I., Jaffri, A., Lewy, T. and Dowling, B. (2008) On Coreference and The Semantic Web http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/15765/” where the core idea is that you have a number of URIs that mean or … Continue reading

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Augmenting the British Library's RDF data to allow for disambiguation

The British Library have released what they term the ‘British National Bibliography’ (BNB) under a permissive licence. This constitutes just under 3 million records, and is derived from the ‘most polished set of bibliographic data’ as some of it dates … Continue reading

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Using the ORDF Fresnel Tool

The Fresnel Vocabulary for RDF provides a way to write down a set of instructions for transforming RDF statements into HTML for display. For some time, the ORDF library has included two implementations of Fresnel, one in JavaScript and one … Continue reading

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Some obvious URI patterns for a service?

Whilst the technical issues and backends may vary, there are one or two URI patterns that may be adopted I think. It’s not REST, but it is a sensible structure I hope. (This is not to replace voID, but to … Continue reading

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JISC OpenBibliography: Peter Murray-Rust at RLUK

Peter Murray-Rust will be attending the RLUK conference on the 10th to 12th November 2010, and he has issued a request for community involvement on his blog. Please have a read, and get in touch if you are interested in … Continue reading

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JISC OpenBibliography: progress report

The JISC Open Bibliography project has had some success recently, and is proceeding to build on that success with further development and advocacy. This seems like a good opportunity to recap the project so far, and to consider what is … Continue reading

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JISC OpenBibliography: CUL data release

The JISC OpenBibliography project has received agreement from Cambridge University Library to provide a set of bibliographic data under an open license (ODC PDDL). This is great news for the project and the wider community, and we will be working … Continue reading

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Data Triage Notes

I’ve begun to write up my experiences and notes on the triage of the datasets I am processing for the JISC Open Bibliography and Citation projects, in a way that others might make sense of them. You can find the … Continue reading

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Disambiguation, deduplication and 'ideals'

(NB Republished from a mailing list conversation at http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-bibliography/2010-August/000397.html – follow this link to see the comments and replies) In my work on meshing bibliographic datasets together, I’ve been using a conceptual tool that I would like to hear views … Continue reading

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Bibliographic models in RDF

Put it in RDF to solve all your problems! As with most things in life, the reality is often a little more complex. If you are old enough, you may well remember when this very same cry was often uttered, … Continue reading

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