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Academic Bibliography data available from Acta Cryst E
The bibliographic data from Acta Cryst E, a publication by the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), has been extracted and made available with their consent. You can find a SPARQL endpoint for the data here and the full dataset here. … Continue reading
JISC OpenBibliography: Development ideas
Now that we have a queryable British National Bibliography dataset, we are investigating useful functionality to take advantage of the data. The team have listed a few development ideas based both on our own interests and on discussion with others … Continue reading
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Querying the British National Bibliography
Following up on the earlier announcement that the British Library has made the British National Bibliography available under a public domain dedication, the JISC Open Bibliography project has worked to make this data more useable. The data has been loaded … Continue reading
Characterising the British Library Bibliographic dataset
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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JISC OpenBibliography: British Library data release
The JISC OpenBibliography project is excited to announce that the British Library is providing a set of bibliographic data under CC0 Public Domain Dedication Licence. We have initially received a dataset consisting of approximately 3 million records, which is now … Continue reading
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"Bundling" instances of author names together without using owl:sameas
Bundling? It’s a verb I’ve taken from ”Glaser, H., Millard, I., Jaffri, A., Lewy, T. and Dowling, B. (2008) On Coreference and The Semantic Web http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/15765/” where the core idea is that you have a number of URIs that mean or … Continue reading
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Augmenting the British Library's RDF data to allow for disambiguation
The British Library have released what they term the ‘British National Bibliography’ (BNB) under a permissive licence. This constitutes just under 3 million records, and is derived from the ‘most polished set of bibliographic data’ as some of it dates … Continue reading
Using the ORDF Fresnel Tool
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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Some obvious URI patterns for a service?
Whilst the technical issues and backends may vary, there are one or two URI patterns that may be adopted I think. It’s not REST, but it is a sensible structure I hope. (This is not to replace voID, but to … Continue reading
JISC OpenBibliography: Peter Murray-Rust at RLUK
Peter Murray-Rust will be attending the RLUK conference on the 10th to 12th November 2010, and he has issued a request for community involvement on his blog. Please have a read, and get in touch if you are interested in … Continue reading