Category Archives: Semantic Web

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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Nature releases Metadata for 450k Articles into the Public Domain

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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Europeana and Linked Open Data

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 Data at the Biblioteca Nacional de España

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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LOD at Bibliothèque nationale de France

Romain Wenz of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) informed me via email about this pleasant development: The BnF’s Linked Data service now is a Linked Open Data service! The BnF LOD service is in the first instance limited to … Continue reading

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Collections in Bibliographica: unsorted information is not information

Collections are the first feature aimed for our users participation at Bibliographica. The collections are lists of books users can create and share with others, and they are one of the basic features of Bibliographica as Jonathan Gray pointed out … Continue reading

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Bibliographica gadget in Wikipedia

What is a wikipedia gadget? Thinking of ways to show the possibilities of linked data, we have made a Wikipedia gadget, making use of a great resource the Wikimedia developers give to the community. Wikipedia gadgets are small pieces of … Continue reading

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Medline dataset

Announcing the CC0 Medline dataset We are happy to report that we now have a full, clean public domain (CC0) version of the Medline dataset available for use by the community. What is the Medline dataset? The Medline dataset is … Continue reading

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OpenBiblio workshop report

#openbiblio #jiscopenbib The OpenBiblio workshop took place on 6th May 2011, at London Knowledge Lab Participants Peter Murray-Rust (Open Bibliography project, University of Cambridge, IUCr) Mark MacGillivray (Open Bibliography project, University of Edinburgh, OKF, Cottage Labs) William Waites (Open Bibliography … Continue reading

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Follow-up to serialising RDF in JSON

Following on from Richard’s post yesterday, we now have a JSON-LD serialiser for RDFlib. This is still a work in progress, and there may be things that it is serialising incorrectly. So, please give us feedback on this, and tell … Continue reading

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