Category Archives: JISC OpenBib

Introducing OFS – a python "bucket"/object storage library

Many internally distributed storage systems – such as Amazon’s S3 service or Riak’s key-value architecture –  have similarities in the manner in which data is labelled and subsequently retrieved. This is often because the systems themselves use a distributed hash … Continue reading

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JISC OpenBibliography: Projected Timeline, Workplan & Overall Project Methodology

The JISC OpenBiblio project is scheduled to run from 1st July 2010 to 31st March 2011. During that time, the project will run 2 week iterative development cycles, each including (for links to trac, code repository, wiki etc see project … Continue reading

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JISC OpenBibliography: Project Team Relationships and End User Engagement.

The JISC OpenBibliography project team: Peter Murray-Rust of the University of Cambridge Unilever Centre, Departmentt of Chemistry is a reader in Molecular Informatics with nearly 200 publications. Peter will focus on the project direction and the co-ordination of the project … Continue reading

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JISC OpenBibliography: IPR statement

All sourced data will fall under a license compatible with the criteria laid out at http://www.opendefinition.org/ – which will ensure that replication and reuse of the data created and hosted by this project is both fully reusable by the community … Continue reading

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JISC OpenBibliography: Risk Analysis and Success Plan

Key Risk: Collections are unavailable or intractable: This was quoted as one of the key risks in the project plan. However, from initial conversations with publishers and other sources, the likelyhood of the project having too little data to work … Continue reading

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JISC OpenBibliography: Wider Benefits to Sector & Achievements for Host Institution

Bibliographic data is useful; A number of organisations such as CERN and Library of Congress have recognised that providing open access to bibliographic records and controlled vocabularies is a natural and necessary step to begin to identify errors and to … Continue reading

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JISC OpenBiblography: Aims, Objectives and Final Outputs

This project will publish a substantial corpus of bibliographic metadata as Linked Open Data, using existing semantic web tools, standards (RDF, SPARQL), linked data patterns and accepted Open ontologies (FoaF, Bibo, DC, etc). The data will be from two distinct … Continue reading

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