Category Archives: OKFN Openbiblio

Open library data: more data & a flyer from Germany

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

Open data by the German National Library of Medicine The open library data movement in Germany has achieved a major success. In December, the German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED) announced the release of more than one Million bibliographic … Continue reading →

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Neil Wilson on open British Library metadata

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Mark MacGillivray

Opening up the BL’s Metadata Neil Wilson presented at GLAMWIKI on the British Library open metadata strategy, providing an overview of the history and responsibilities of the British Library, and how open metadata relates to the vision of future library … Continue reading →

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Characterising the British Library Bibliographic dataset

Posted on November 18, 2010 by benosteen

Having RDF data is good. Having Linkable data is better but having some idea of what sorts of properties you can expect to find within a triplestore or block of data can be crucial. That sort of broad-stroke information can … Continue reading →

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Using the ORDF Fresnel Tool

Posted on November 7, 2010 by ww

The Fresnel Vocabulary for RDF provides a way to write down a set of instructions for transforming RDF statements into HTML for display. For some time, the ORDF library has included two implementations of Fresnel, one in JavaScript and one … Continue reading →

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Principles for Open Bibliographic Data

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Adrian Pohl

For some time now the OKFN Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data has been working on Principles on Open Bibliographic Data. While first attempts were mainly directed towards libraries and other public institutions we decided to broaden the principle’s scope … Continue reading →

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Minutes: 4th virtual meeting of the OKFN Openbiblio Group

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Adrian Pohl

Date: October, 5th 2010, 16:00 UK time (BST) Channel: Meeting was held via Skype Participants Adrian Pohl Ben O’ Steen Jim Pitman Karen Coyle John Mark Ockerbloom Peter Murray-Rust Minutes of former meetings 1st meeting: http://okfnpad.org/Qv1jMMQL1h 2nd meeting: http://okfnpad.org/wTnZOOxiRz 3rd … Continue reading →

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Minutes: 3rd Virtual Meeting of the Open Bibliography Group

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Adrian Pohl

Participants Adrian Pohl John Mark Ockerbloom Rufus Pollock Peter Murray-Rust Apologies Micah Altman Minutes of former meetings For the minutes of former meetings see 1st meeting: http://okfnpad.org/Qv1jMMQL1h 2nd meeting: http://okfnpad.org/wTnZOOxiRz Agenda Working group blog/website We decided to use http://openbiblio.net/ as … Continue reading →

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