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Article on Author Identity and Open Bibliographic Data

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Adrian Pohl

Jim Pitman – Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley and active in the OKFN Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data – published an article “Author Identity and Open Bibliography” in the IMS Bulletin. He gives an … Continue reading →

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Announcing Glottolog/Langdoc, a knowledge base of 175k references for (mostly) underdescribed languages

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Sebastian Nordhoff

We are happy to announce Glottolog/Langdoc, a comprehensive knowledgbase of references treating (mostly) underdescribed languages from the whole world. Glottolog/Langdoc is built upon a collation of 20 source bibliographies covering the whole world, from Alaska to Australia. The original bibliographies … Continue reading →

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Minutes: 19th Virtual Meeting of the OKFN Openbiblio Group

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Adrian Pohl

Date: March, 6th 2011, 16:00 GMT Channels: Meeting was held via Skype and Etherpad Participants Adrian Pohl Sebastian Nordhoff Jim Pitman Agenda Action points from the last meeting Adrian has posted to the KIM-DINI-LLD list regarding the national bibliography and … Continue reading →

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European PSI Directive to be Expanded to Cover Memory Institutions

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

This morning Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for the Digital Agenda announced a new Open Data Strategy for Europe. Jonathan Gray has posted some more information including quotes on the OKF blog. What is especially of … Continue reading →

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“Full-text” search for openbiblio, using Apache Solr

Posted on May 25, 2011 by benosteen

Overview: This provides a simple search interface for openbiblio, using a network-addressable Apache Solr instance to provide FTS over the content. The indexer currently relies on the Entry Model (in /model/entry.py) to provide an acceptable dictionary of terms to be … Continue reading →

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Minutes: 10th Virtual meeting of the OKFN Openbiblio Group

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

Date: April, 5st 2011, 15:00-16:15 GMT Channel: Meeting was held via Skype and Etherpad Participants Adrian Pohl Jim Pitman Primavera De Filippi Karen Coyle James Robert Griffin III Thomas Krichel William Waites Lucy Chambers publicdomainworks.net & bibliographica.org Primavera from publicdomainworks.net … Continue reading →

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Is it Open Bibliographic Data?

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Adrian Pohl

Many members of the Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data have been engaged for a long time in the scientific community, the scholarly information community or the library community. They all believe in the need for open data as a … Continue reading →

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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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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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Begginnings of an Object Description Mapper

Posted on August 21, 2010 by Open Knowledge International

The analogue to an Object-Relational Mapper for RDF. Helping to make OWL Description Logic accessible from Python in a way that will seem familiar to people who are accustomed to things like SQLAlchemy and SuRF. http://packages.python.org/ordf/odm.html

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