Tag Archives: bibliographic

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

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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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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Getting open bibliographic data from (UK)PMC / PubMed

For some time now, the JISC Open Bibliography project team has been attempting to get open bibliographic data from (UK)PMC / PubMed. Everyone involved (Robert Kiley – Wellcome, Ben O’Steen, Peter Murray-Rust – JISC OpenBib, Jeff Beck – NIH/NLM/NCBI, Johanna … Continue reading

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open theses at EURODOC

#jiscopenbib #opentheses On Friday 1st April 2011, Mark MacGillivray, Peter Murray-Rust and Ben O’Steen remotely attended the EURODOC conference in Vilnius, Lithuania in order to take part in an Open Theses workshop locally hosted by Daniel Mietchen and Alfredo Ferreira … Continue reading

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Bibliographic models in RDF

Put it in RDF to solve all your problems! As with most things in life, the reality is often a little more complex. If you are old enough, you may well remember when this very same cry was often uttered, … Continue reading

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