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Nature’s data platform strongly expanded

Nature has largely expanded its Linked Open Data platform that was launched in April 2012. From today’s press release: “As part of its wider commitment to open science, Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG) Linked Data Platform now hosts more than 270 … Continue reading

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Community Discussions 3

It has been a couple of months since the round-up on Community Discussions 2 and we have been busy! BiblioHack was a highlight for me, and last week included a meeting of many OKFN types – here’s a picture taken … Continue reading

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BiblioHack: Day 2, part 2

Pens down! Or, rather, key-strokes cease! BiblioHack has drawn to a close and the results of two days’ hard labour are in: A Bibliographic Toolkit Utilising BibServer Peter Murray-Rust reported back on what was planned, what was done, and the … Continue reading

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BiblioHack: Day 2, part 1

After easing into the day with breakfast and coffee, each of the 3 sub-groups gave an overview of the mini-project’s aim and fed back on the evening’s progress: Peter Murray-Rust revisited the overarching theme of ‘A Bibliographic Toolkit’ and the … Continue reading

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Hackathon alert: BiblioHack!

This is cross-posted from the OKFN blog The Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open Biblio group, and Working Group on Open Data in Cultural Heritage, along with DevCSI, present BiblioHack: an open Hackathon to kick-start the summer months. From Wednesday 13th – … Continue reading

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#OpenDataEDB 2: 16th May

Following the fun we had at March’s Meet-up ‘launch’, we will be having another gathering of people interested in open data next Wednesday 16th May. Hosted by the Wash Bar, Edinburgh, from 19.00, come and join us to discuss ideas, … Continue reading

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Recent BibServer technical development

Along with the recent push of new front-end functionality to BibServer, and demonstrated on BibSoup, we have also applied some changes to the back-end. The new scheduled collection uploader is now runnable as a stand-alone tool, to which source URLs … Continue reading

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BibJSON updates

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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New BibServer features available on BibSoup

A couple of months ago the development team had a Sprint and came up with some cool ideas of how to improve the user experience for BibServer and, subsequently, BibSoup. Have a play with the new features and see below … Continue reading

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Harvard Library releases 12M bibliographic records under CC0

Harvard Library yesterday announced the release of 12 Million bibliographic record into the public domain using CC0. From the announcement: “The Harvard Library announced it is making more than 12 million catalog records from Harvard’s 73 libraries publicly available. The … Continue reading

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