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JISC OpenBibliography: progress report

The JISC Open Bibliography project has had some success recently, and is proceeding to build on that success with further development and advocacy. This seems like a good opportunity to recap the project so far, and to consider what is … Continue reading

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JISC OpenBibliography: CUL data release

The JISC OpenBibliography project has received agreement from Cambridge University Library to provide a set of bibliographic data under an open license (ODC PDDL). This is great news for the project and the wider community, and we will be working … Continue reading

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Data Triage Notes

I’ve begun to write up my experiences and notes on the triage of the datasets I am processing for the JISC Open Bibliography and Citation projects, in a way that others might make sense of them. You can find the … Continue reading

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Disambiguation, deduplication and 'ideals'

(NB Republished from a mailing list conversation at http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-bibliography/2010-August/000397.html – follow this link to see the comments and replies) In my work on meshing bibliographic datasets together, I’ve been using a conceptual tool that I would like to hear views … 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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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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JISC OpenBibliography: Projected Timeline, Workplan & Overall Project Methodology

The JISC OpenBiblio project is scheduled to run from 1st July 2010 to 31st March 2011. During that time, the project will run 2 week iterative development cycles, each including (for links to trac, code repository, wiki etc see project … Continue reading

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JISC OpenBibliography: Project Team Relationships and End User Engagement.

The JISC OpenBibliography project team: Peter Murray-Rust of the University of Cambridge Unilever Centre, Departmentt of Chemistry is a reader in Molecular Informatics with nearly 200 publications. Peter will focus on the project direction and the co-ordination of the project … Continue reading

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JISC OpenBibliography: IPR statement

All sourced data will fall under a license compatible with the criteria laid out at http://www.opendefinition.org/ – which will ensure that replication and reuse of the data created and hosted by this project is both fully reusable by the community … Continue reading

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JISC OpenBibliography: Risk Analysis and Success Plan

Key Risk: Collections are unavailable or intractable: This was quoted as one of the key risks in the project plan. However, from initial conversations with publishers and other sources, the likelyhood of the project having too little data to work … Continue reading

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