Category Archives: OKFN Openbiblio

Informing public access to peer reviewed scholarly publications and data resulting from publicly funded research

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Mark MacGillivray

The US government (OSTP) has recently issued an RFI on Open Access to data resulting from publicly funded research. The deadline for responding to the RFI has been extended to January 12. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/12/21/extended-deadline-public-access-and-digital-data-rfis Detailed responses are openly available for collaborative … Continue reading →

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Minutes: 17th Virtual Meeting of the OKFN Openbiblio Group

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Adrian Pohl

Date: January, 3rd 2011, 16:00 GMT Channels: Meeting was held via Skype and Etherpad Participants Adrian Pohl Peter Murray-Rust Thad Guidry Thomas Krichel (first half) Karen Coyle (first half) Jim Pitman (second half) Agenda OCLC’s FAST release Is this open … Continue reading →

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International Digital Curation Conference

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Mark MacGillivray

Last week I attended the International Digital Curation Conference. It was very interesting to see many people from institutes across the world talking about how to manage and share all sorts of research data; from attempts to use institutional repository … Continue reading →

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JISC Open Bibliography 2

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Mark MacGillivray

JISC have put some extra funding in to continue work on Open Bibliography; hooray! We are continuing along the open biblio collections theme from last year, but will now be focussing on ensuring individuals and small groups can do something … Continue reading →

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Minutes: 16th Virtual Meeting of the OKFN Openbiblio Group

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

Date December, 6th 2011, 16:00 GMT Channel Meeting was held via Skype and Etherpad Participants Adrian Pohl Jim Pitman Karen Coyle Agenda Report from Germany #swib11 Adrian reported from the third conference Semantic Web in Libraries (SWIB) which this year … Continue reading →

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Animal Garden – open science issues

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Mark MacGillivray

Peter and Tom Murray-Rust put together a presentation called Animal Garden, which we have now converted to a prezi for nice swooshy embedding-ness in web pages. This prezi tells the story of some teddybear scientists who try to share their … Continue reading →

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Recommendations on Releasing Library Data as Open Data

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

Last week, the German KIM-DINI working group (KIM = Competence Centre Interoperable Metadata) officially published recommentations for the release of open data by libraries and related institutions. The recommendations are intended to serve information facilities as guide and reference text … Continue reading →

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Minutes: 15th Virtual Meeting of the OKFN Openbiblio Group

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

Date November, 8th 2011, 16:00 GMT Channel Meeting was held via Skype and Etherpad Participants Adrian Pohl Sam Leon (OKF Community Coordinator) Jim Pitman Thad Guidry (Freebase – Google Refine) Agenda Sam’s Introduction Sam recently joined the OKF as community … Continue reading →

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Interview on Open Bibliographic Data in German Open Data Blog

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

Yesterday, an interview was published in the Open Data blog of the German weekly newspaper “Die Zeit”. In this interview, I answer questions asked by Lorenz Matzat about open bibliograpic data, the OKFN’s working group and openbiblio activities going on … Continue reading →

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Finnish Turku City Library and the Vaski consortia now Open Data with 1.8M MARC-records

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Mace Ojala

I’m happy to announce that our Vaski-consortia of public libraries  serving total 300 000 citizens in Turku and the a dozen surrounding municipalities in western Finland, have recently published all of our 1.8 million bibliographical records in the open, as … Continue reading →

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