Category Archives: LOD-LAM

Metadata for over 20 Million Cultural Objects released into the Public Domain by Europeana

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Adrian Pohl

Europeana today announced that its dataset comprising descriptions of more than 20 Million cultural objects is from now on openly licensed with Creative Commons’ public domain waiver CC0. From the announcement: “Opportunities for apps developers, designers and other digital innovators … Continue reading →

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Linked Data in worldcat.org

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Adrian Pohl

This post was first published on Übertext: Blog. Two days ago OCLC announced that linked data has been added to worldcat.org. I took a quick look at it and just want to share some notes on this. OCLC goes open, finally … Continue reading →

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BiblioHack: Day 1

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

The first day of BiblioHack was a day of combinations and sub-divisions! The event attendees started the day all together, both hackers and workshop / seminar attendees, and Sam introduced the purpose of the day as follows: coders – to … Continue reading →

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BibJSON updates

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Mark MacGillivray

Following recent discussion on our mailing list, BibJSON has been updated to adopt JSON-LD for all your linked data needs. This enables us to keep the core of BibJSON pretty simple whilst also opening up potential for more complex usage … Continue reading →

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Community discussions 2

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

It’s been a funny few weeks, with Easter meaning that various people have been out-and-about at various times, but as always, the community never rests… Following on from Community Discussions (1), here are the latest goings-on to raise your interest … Continue reading →

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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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Linked Open Data as explained by Europeana

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

Antoine Isaac recently sent an e-mail around the List to let us know that Europeana has published its first dataset, comprising 2.4 million objects, under CC0. Furthermore, the new Data Exchange Agreement, which data suppliers are required to sign in … 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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German Library Networks BVB and KOBV release 23 Million Records

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

The two German library networks BVB (BibliotheksVerbund Bayern = Library Network Bavaria) and KOBV (Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg = Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg) have recently released 23 million records from their joint union catalogue under a CC0 license. The opening of … Continue reading →

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Did you hear that loud bang? That was CENL releasing their data under CC0

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

The conference of European National Librarians (CENL) came up with great news last wednesday! Data from all European national libraries will be published under an open license! From the announcement: “Meeting at the Royal Library of Denmark, the Conference of … Continue reading →

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