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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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Nature releases Metadata for 450k Articles into the Public Domain

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Adrian Pohl

Yesterday Nature Publishing Group announced the launch of a Linked Data platform with RDF descriptions of more than 450,000 articles published by NPG since 1869. From the press release: “Nature Publishing Group (NPG) today is pleased to join the linked … Continue reading →

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Community discussions

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

The Open Biblio core team are a small bunch, but there’s a wealth of people out there providing information and suggestions to make our work better and more widely known. The List is a key way for people to post … 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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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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Open Bibliography at the start of 2012

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Naomi Lillie

Adrian’s post about the German National Library prompted me to note down a few other exciting developments over the last month or so. Christmas and the holiday season may be perceived as a time for winding down, but not for … Continue reading →

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BibServer Code Sprint January 2011

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Rufus Pollock

BibServer team will be having a code sprint this week. When: Tuesday 17 Where: Cambridge, UK (and online) More details to follow.

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What is BibServer? What happened to Bibliographica?

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Mark MacGillivray

Time for another clarification on what work we are doing, and what various different acronyms mean. BibServer BibServer is the software we are now working on; the aim of it is to provide a tool that enables individuals and small … Continue reading →

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(Slightly) wider exposure of the costs of academic publishing

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Mark MacGillivray

An article in the Guardian yesterday: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist brings up the profit margins of academic publishers. I found one line particularly interesting: This is a tax on education, a stifling of the public mind. It appears to contravene the universal declaration … Continue reading →

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After JISC Open Bibliography

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Mark MacGillivray

The JISC Open Bibliography project has come to an end, but of course the Open Bibliography community remains. We will no longer have regular JISC Open Bib meetings, but I would hope that those involved will continue to engage with … Continue reading →

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