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BibServer new functionality

During the sprint last week we made a lot of progress with the new functionality for version 0.5.0 – however, Etienne and I got so excited by some new ideas that we did not finish on time; apologies for the … 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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Open Data from Dortmund University Library

Dortmund University Library catalog data has been opened up on March 1st, 2011. As announced in the libraries blog 1,2 Million bibliographic records are released into the public domain under a CC0 waiver. The data is released in cooperation with … Continue reading

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Introducing OFS – a python "bucket"/object storage library

Many internally distributed storage systems – such as Amazon’s S3 service or Riak’s key-value architecture –  have similarities in the manner in which data is labelled and subsequently retrieved. This is often because the systems themselves use a distributed hash … Continue reading

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